An Australian and a Californian discuss WikiLeaks and related topics for your infotainment. Tangerine Bolen joins us once again to discuss where the STOP NDAA case has come from and where it is going.

Guest authored post, originally published on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Phil Rockstroh at Common Dreams – View the original article here. “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings of anxiety borne of powerlessness over the criteria of one’s life…

Guest authored post, originally published 16 December 2012 by Phil Rockstroh at Common Dreams - View the original article here. “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” - James Baldwin As we draw near to the Winter Solstice and the days shorten, one’s thoughts are drawn inward. Bright lights, fragrant…

On December 6, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with David Remes and Andy Worthington to discuss the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, the U.S. Government’s current position on indefinite detention, and their work examining and dealing with the effects it has had on the detainees that reside there. After ten years, multiple scandals, and worldwide condemnation of its practices, the highly controversial Guantanamo Bay Detention Center (GTMO) remains open…

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17 October 2012 by Lawrence Davidson - View the original article here. PART I – The Savage vs. the Civilized Back on 1 August 2012 I posted a piece entitled History on a Billboard. It reported on the placement, in the northern suburbs of New York City, of informational billboards with maps of Palestine showing the steady growth of Israeli confiscated territory and the corresponding shrinkage of territory available to the…

On August 2, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Carl Mayer, Bruce Afran, Daniel Ellsberg, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Tangerine Bolen (Host), David Segal, Kevin Gosztola, Michael Kelley, Laura Poitras, and Jacob Applebaum to discuss the current state of the ongoing Hedges v. Obama lawsuit against the US. Government regarding Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA and answered audience questions.  Seven plaintiffs, backed by multiple civil liberties and human rights groups, filed suit…

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2011 has emerged as the 1968 of our generation, as some have put it. The rebellions of 1968, from the Democratic National Convention riots in Chicago to the revolts in France, have transposed themselves to our generation through the uprisings we’ve seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, England, and the U.S. We have seen millions of people overthrow the Egyptian tyrant, Hosni Mubarak. We have seen a man light himself…

Part I – The “Locally Normal” 　 The vast majority of people in any given society are “locally normal.” By this I mean that they conform to the accepted outlooks and behaviors of their local society. They fit comfortably with their neighbors who fit comfortably with them. Their opinions are majority opinions that reflect local societal norms. Those norms may or may not espouse racism and a wide variety of…

The following post was contributed by Dave Warren, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community. I think the recent RevolutionTruth panel discussion on the Chris Hedges Black Bloc article took many unintended turns and twists but, guided by serendipity, it ended up being very illuminating on a number of counts even if it juked from its initial topic on Black Bloc. I will save actual comments on the tactics of…

Natasha Stoudt from Occupy Portland contributed this post to RevolutionTruth Over the past couple of weeks, the internet has exploded with responses to Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy.” I’m going to sidestep the issue of what was wrong or right with Hedges’ article or the many responses to it, and focus on the deeper subject of the debate it spawned: the debate about tactics. This debate is a…