MEDIA ROOTS – On Thursday, November 17, 2011, Media Roots correspondent Felipe Messina spoke with Russia Today TV (RT) about the violent mass arrests by militarised platoons of local police, as they waged a coordinated national campaign to crush the Occupy Movement. He pointed out the Federalised character of the coordinated crackdowns against the Occupy Movement. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- As the current US labor system trembles with insecurity, leaking the salaries, benefits and rights of workers across the country, people are increasingly wondering what alternatives there are. In the Bay Area, one doesn’t have to venture far before coming across a local favorite, the Arizmendi Bakeries. Backed by a development and support cooperative, the Arizmendi Association has … Read More
PROJECT CENSORED– As we approach the prophetic and supposed media hyped end-of-times year of 2012, hysterical speculation will abound. But the ubiquitous corporate media don’t seem to notice that We the People of these United States already stand at our own precipice– the potential end of what has been deemed the Great American Experiment, the institutional embodiment of human freedom … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- If anyone had any doubt that the morals of our governors in Washington are as flexible and flimsy as a half-chewed rubber band, then they need look no further than Obama & Co.’s disparate, polar-opposite approaches to the twin tyrants of Egypt and Libya. When democracy ‘threatened’ (as Washington political elites saw it) to break out in Egypt … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – “As machines replace skill, they disconnect themselves from life; they come between us and life. They begin to enact our ignorance of value – of essential sources, dependences, and relationships.The catch is that we cannot live in machines. We can only live in the world, in life. To live, our contact with the sources of life must … Read More
