Why the Occupy Movement Frightens the Corporate Elite Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a march in New York, May 1, 2012. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times) In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group … Continue reading Why Occupy scares Corporates?

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The Pentagon is a conveyor belt for hatred and enmity towards Islam By Abid Mustafa “We are not at war with Islam”—President Obama It was only last month that Pentagon officials repeatedly implored Pastor Terry Jones not to burn copies of the Quran fearing that Jones’s inflammatory action could arouse Muslim sentiments and endanger the lives of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet, a month later the Pentagon managed to outdo the bigotry of Terry Jones and had been caught red handed for spearheading America’s crusade against Islam and seeking its total annihilation. Lt Col Matthew Dooley who … Continue reading THE PENTAGON: How to help Al Qaida WIN!

  By Ejaz Haider Published: May 10, 2012 The writer is a senior journalist and has held several editorial positions including most recently at The Friday Times. He was a Ford Scholar at UIUC and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution “There are several significant [al Qaeda] leaders still on the run. (Ayman al) Zawahiri who inherited the leadership from (Osama) bin Laden is somewhere, we believe, in Pakistan. So we are intent upon going after those who are trying to keep al Qaeda operational and inspirational.” Thus spake the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to an Indian channel in Kolkata … Continue reading The ball’s in Pakistan’s court

The Corporate Media’s Attempt to Kill the Occupy Movement Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement make their way down Broadway in New York, May 1, 2012. (Photo: Michael Appleton / The New York Times) “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.” George Orwell, “1984.”  This May Day brought the explosive global resurgence of Occupy, one of the most significant social movement in decades. In New York City, the heart of global capitalism and center of the movement, the New York Civil Liberties Union estimated that 30,000 demonstrators took part in a massive rally and … Continue reading Media’s Attempts Kill Occupy

Firefox Creators Mozilla Attack Congress; Denounce CISPA Tuesday, 08 May 2012 10:13By Leon Neal, RT | Report   Silicon Valley’s Mozilla Corporation has tasked themselves with extinguishing a fire, and no, it’s not what you have in mind. Mozilla, the Mountain View, California-based developers responsible for creating the hugely successful Firefox Web browser, has issued a statement publically condemning the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. In a memo sent to Forbes’ data security department on late Tuesday, Mozilla’s privacy and public policy official explains that its newly-publicized stance is not one that encourages online cyber attacks, but merely establishes … Continue reading Mozilla Denounce Congress and CISPA

US admits it lacks evidence to convict $10m Hafiz Saeed: Telegraph By: NNI       The United States has admitted it lacks evidence to convict the Hafiz Saeed of terrorism despite slapping a $10m (£6.3 million) bounty on his head for his capture and conviction, Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. The decision to name Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, on the US State Department’s wanted list has provoked an angry reaction in Pakistan where even liberal commentators fear Washington is acting without proof in order to cosy up to arch-rival India. At a regular briefing, Mark Toner, State Department spokesman, was forced … Continue reading Americans lack evidence to convict Hafiz Saeed

Digital divide splits developed and developing nations by: AP   “A few years ago, India was ahead of China.” – Photo by AFP NEW YORK: The digital divide persists between developed and developing countries, even in regions like Europe, according to a report released Wednesday that examined the success of 142 countries in using information and communications technology to boost economic competitiveness. The 441-page report by the World Economic Forum uses a broad range of measures to rank countries on the success of their overall efforts to use such ICT technology to improve business, government and the lives of individuals. At the … Continue reading Pakistanis need to be more digitally connected!

  by: Reuters    “I’m living evidence that cousin marriage doesn’t work,” said Salma, a Sudanese woman living in Qatar who was in the audience and spoke during the question and answer period. – Photo courtesy Creative Commons DOHA: Noor was not the first in her Qatari family to marry a close relative, but she may be one of the last.     Throughout the Middle East, Africa and parts of South Asia, marriage between family members has been widely practised for thousands of years, largely as a means of securing relationships between tribes and preserving family wealth, but also as a … Continue reading Arabs question centuries-old tradition of cousin marriages