An American Motto: Free, Armed and Stupid – An Analysis

Given the recent events in Newtown Conn. I redistribute my July 22, 2012 essay written on the occasion of yet another massacre. 16 December 2012 by Lawrence Davidson Part I – Gun Violence Epidemic Continues Well here we go again. Late in the evening of July 20th “a masked gunman entered a Colorado movie theater playing the new Batman movie and “opened fire…killing at least 12 people and wounding 50.”…
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RevolutionTruth Panel – GTMO, The Rule of Law and the NDAA

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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RevolutionTruth Panel – Truth-telling in War: What it Means to be a Military Whistleblower

On March 21, 2012 RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Ethan McCord and Mike Prysner, two military whistle-blowers who have demonstrated a profound willingness to maintain the oaths they took to defend the nation and the United States Constitution, when doing so meant turning against the US military, and the government’s framing of these wars.This panel was guest hosted by Jeff Paterson. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have cost the…
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When did we replace reporters with video games?

This is an excerpt from Meaningless Words, episode 24, January 18th 2012, where Justin Jackson, Pamela Taylor, Christopher Sisk, and Edward Dyer discussed the difference in mainstream media coverage between the Vietnam War, of which Ed is a veteran, and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems as though video games are used to inform soldiers and future soldiers of events during war now, rather than reporters of…
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Read more...Make urinating on corpses SOP?

The following is an excerpt from the show Meaningless Words, episode 24, January 18th 2012, where a discussion took place around the incident involving the US soldiers who were caught on camera whilst urinating upon the slain Taliban members. The point made was that people were outraged by the wrong thing. Please listen and share. Thank you. Commentators are: Justin Jackson (Co-Host), Pamela Taylor (Co-Host), Christopher Sisk (RevolutionTruth), and Edward Dyer…
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Read more...Bradley Manning’s whistle-blowing act is the reason that Osama Bin Laden was finally found.
Occupy Cairns – November 2011

Today I talked to one of the coordinators of Occupy Cairns, Geoff Holland, about why he occupies, and what Occupy Cairns are achieving right now, and are planning on achieving in the future. The sound quality is poor, so a transcript has also been provided here. PAMELA: Right, so I’m Pamela Taylor from RevolutionTruth, and I’m here in Occupy Cairns, well, in Cairns, occupying Cairns, with Geoff Holland, their main coordinator. [Turns to…
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Read more...Why Occupy? An Australian Perspective

Who was hacked this week you ask? THE SYSTEM This post was inspired by a conversation I had recently with an Australian Information Technology study-buddy of mine. I was, as you can imagine, posting links to the Occupy Movement all over my social networking arena, including one for where people are occupying in Australia. My friend commented on my Facebook wall: Doesn’t it kind of not make a whole lot of sense in…
Read more...What do you reckon?

The Bush administration got away with lying to start a devastating and inexcusable war. Wall Street bankers helped cause the US and global economies to go into near-meltdown. No one is being held accountable for this. WikiLeaks helps shed light on institutional abuses of secrecy and patterns of the abuse of human rights and democracy. WikiLeaks can function as a course correction in increasingly disingenuous times.
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