A newly released film, “On the Dark Side in Al Doura” focuses on U.S. Army Ranger John Needham’s experience in Iraq where he witnessed grim atrocities. It includes shocking uncirculated photographic evidence of what appear to be war crimes. The story is presented within the framework of decisions by the Bush Administration to step away from the rule of law and of V.P. Cheney’s call to go to the dark side. C ...

At their Sacramento meeting on Saturday, August 6, 2011, the statewide Student Senate for California Community Colleges unanimously voted to endorse and fully support the signature gathering efforts to place Prop 1481 on the California ballot.  This proposition will place a 15% extraction fee on crude oil extracted in California which will produce approximately $3 billion annually for California Education: ...

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips Co-hosts of Project Censored Show on Pacifica at KPFA will host a live three and half hour special on the Costs of War for the summer fund drive. The show can be heard live on 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno and on www.KPFA.org. The Program will focus on the recent Brown University study on the socio-economic impacts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and rel ...

Joseph Stiglitz gives a little surprise speech at one 15M movement assembly in Madrid Marches from all over the country fill up the Spanish capital with assemblies, forums, demonstrations, and actions of protest and start an international march to Brussels by Concha Mateos Madrid July 25th , 2011 "It is not a crisis; it is that I don´t want you anymore." That was the slogan for our demonstration yesterday ( ...

By Peter Phillips Former US Senator Mike Gravel is calling for a Citizens 9/11 Commission. “As each anniversary of 9/11 rolls by, the import of this tragedy looms ever larger in our history. Especially looming like storm clouds on the horizon of American politics are the unanswered questions about these events. And as new evidence and new whistleblowers come forward seemingly every week, the import of the 9 ...

By Concha Mateos Madrid- June 29, 2011 They say ´No´, we say ´Yes´. Greece had to decide. But, what Greece? The Parliament, the lawmakers, the government, the street, Syntagma Square… what Greece? The corporate media language uses to talk about Greece as if it has a single will, an unique and uniform one. But it doesn’t exist. The ones who are invited to vote today (June 29th) in Parliament are the ones who ...

By Erik White, I am writing today to tell you of a great miscarriage of justice, in our public education system. The greatest teacher I have ever known, John Milton, has been fired from De Anza Community College, for an obscene gesture or phrase. Whether or not John is guilty of the obscenity, the way the administration handled the incident was dangerous for all teachers. The administration refuses to justi ...

California State University is celebrating 50th years of being the nations leading university. The web page http://www.calstate.edu/50th/ asked for comments from people about the next fifty years. Here is my response. California State University Over the Next Fifty Years (After the Democracy Revolution) By Peter Phillips California State University well return to being the people's university designed to se ...

By Concha Mateos   (Madrid June 20, 2011) Two burning Sundays in a row. We were thousands in the camps in May. We are hundred of thousands in the streets in June. The last silent shout in AcampadaSol (downtown Madrid) was on June 12th. One week later, the 15M movement has taken out to the streets thousands and thousands of “indignados”  (outraged) marching in cities all over the country. Peacefully and ...

By Kathleen Barry, Today, President Assad spoke on the uprisings in Syria. He attributed them to extremists. But we have been following the Syrian revolution on television and over the internet. When we hear comments like that, preceded by former President Mubarek's claim that the Egyptian Revolution was provoked by Al Qaeda, we see just how ridiculous these leaders are. We know better. We know these are pe ...