Mainstream media assures us that he apocalyptic skies over New York City last week were nothing to worry about. A former Army officer differs strongly.

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Author Paul Buhle speaks on alternative media, Studs Terkel and related matters on Sunday, July 12, 5:30-7:00 at Alternative Press Center, co-sponsored with Quimby's Bookstore.

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While the media is still fetishizing the global economic crisis, the basic relationship between humans, the earth, and capital has remained unchanged. People are still earning, saving and spending money, the earth is still being raped and pillaged so that humans can live an unsustainable lifestyle, and the government is continuing to corral, subjugate and oppress all of us.

A Chicago Copwatch member were arrested today on July 3rd while attending a demonstration in response to the shooting last night of Rakeem Nance.

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There is a great propensity of American bombers and drones to hit weddings and funeral ceremonies in Afghanistan and Pakistan continually for the past eight years.

Two views on the Afghanistan mission. "The NATO mission puts Germany in danger. A resolution in the Bundestag calls on the American government to stop bombing villages.."

Tamms Year Ten, a coalition formed to end inhumane policies at Tamms Supermax Prison, is demanding that the Chicago Tribune correct an editorial it published about Tamms, the controversial southern Illinois prison condemned for human rights abuses.