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Anomalies in the FBI's Account of the Boston Marathon Bombings (last updated June 15)

Israel has More Poverty than Any Developed Country (video)

Paul Krugman: A Smart Man Paid to Say Stupid Things

Government Spying Aims to Silence Us

Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer

Calling Out the Testing Bullies, by Peter deWitt (about how standardized testing of public school children is child abuse)

Beware of Robert Reich's Latest Op-Ed

A Misunderstanding about "Patriarchy"

What Kind of "Freedom" Did They Die For?

If Only Glenn Greenwald Would Learn to Say "They" Instead of "We"

Why They're Rioting in Sweden

A Ruling Class vs. Revolutionary Response to Prostitution

"The specific type of torture used by the U.S. was never aimed at producing actionable intelligence … but was instead aimed at producing false confessions" -- from a report issued by a bi-partisan panel that was co-chaired by the former undersecretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, former Republican congressman from Arkansas and NRA consultant (Asa Hutchinson) and former Democratic congressman and U.S. ambassador to Mexico (James Jones) and included Former FBI Director William Sessions, 3-star general Claudia J. Kennedy, Retired Brigadier General David Irvine, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, and U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Thomas Pickering. The report also asserted that "America still allows torture," "Torture is not necessary even in a 'ticking time bomb' situation" and "The use of torture has 'no justification' and 'damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.'" Also see Taxi to the Dark Side, an Academy Award-winning film about U.S. torture online here.

RECENT WORLD EVENTS

Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio. As many as 200,000 people have marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities, as protests over rising public transport costs and the expense of staging the 2014 World Cup have spread. (This video shows the huge size of the demonstration; looks like more than 200,000! And this video shows a close up of what is apparently a very militant demonstration. This video also is a close up of the militancy.)

Why Are they Demonstrating in Brazil? The core protest group, the Free Fare Movement, demands public transportation be made available free of charge. They say the hike is just one more example of how government nickel-and-dimes the poorest out of their money, then throws it out on lavish, high-profile projects.

What's Happening in São Paulo?

"What do Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil have in common?" by Jerome Roos

Greeks rise up, take back the public TV station closed by the government

What Future for the Turkkish Uprising? by Mehmet Döşemeci, in ROAR

What Is Happening in Istanbul? by Tarihinde Yayımlandı writing from Turkey

Young Turks march in Ankara, Turkey, June 2, 2013 against Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Portugal stage biggest protest since 1974 revolution whilst international mainstream media ignores it

A Proxy War is Raging in Syria, by Washingtonsblog.com

Demonstrators in Bologna, Italy, force the cops to flee! (May 27)

Swedish riots rage for fourth night: Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest spasrked by long-term youth unemployment and poverty spreads

In Bolivia, Morales faces a challenge from below

On March 28, 1,500 armed citizens in Mexico took to the streets, set up roadblocks, and arrested local officials. Read more here and here.

Strikes and Demonstrations Rock Spain

How the Corrala Movement Is Occupying Spain (If and when these good Spanish people remove their foes from power, it will be the kind of revolution that we need.)

Razan Ghazzawi at IAW – Toronto: “Who’s Afraid of Syria’s Popular Revolution?” by Henry Lowi

NON-US-backed Syrians Rising Against the Assad Regime

"Spanish city's locksmiths say they'll no longer assist with evictions" Three cheers for solidarity!

We CAN Change the World (the book as pdf)

New Democracy works for democratic revolution. Welcome to our website! We hope you will explore it and share what you find with friends, family and coworkers.

Most Americans want a society based on real democracy and equality and on the solidarity and friendship that already exist among ordinary people. But ordinary working people do not run the show.

We live in a dictatorship of the rich. Our world is dominated by a wealthy elite who control the big corporations and the government. The elite few enjoy unlimited wealth and privilege, while the majority live in constant fear of losing their homes, their livelihoods, their health, their freedom in a growing police state. There is no such thing as democracy in a society where money is power and most people don't have any.

We need a revolution to defeat this undemocratic elite and build a better society. Revolution is possible because most people despise the values of inequality and greed and domination that characterize the powerful. Most people believe in equality and solidarity and democracy. Ordinary people already try to change the world when they defend and promote these values in their everyday lives. The constant effort of ordinary people to do the right thing--to stick together, to share what they have, to listen to and help others, in spite of the persistent messages of capitalism to just "look out for number one"-- is the realistic foundation for a new world.

Billions of people around the globe are already in motion to make a new world. The struggle for revolution will define the 21st century.

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Thinking about Revolution (pdf)

A pamphlet by John Spritzler and Dave Stratman, with supplementary articles here

Please download, print, share and discuss "Thinking" with your friends, neighbors and co-workers. (Also feel free to distribute these related leaflets: From Occupation to Revolution and an "advertisement" of Thinking about Revolution.)

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This I Believe (Yo Creo en Esto)

People are signing this statement (online or hard copy) to let others know they are not alone in wanting a revolution for a better world. The signatures are being displayed in public on large posters like this one. Most of the people who stop and read the statement on the sidewalk outdoors, where we collect signatures, sign it. Try it and see for yourself how many people agree to sign it in your community. (Here is a version suitable for collecting 100 signatures.)

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IS vs. COULD BE

• IS: College costs a fortune so only the wealthy or those willing to take on a huge debt can get a higher education.
• COULD BE: College is free (like it was until recently in Sweden); the cost is borne by society because society benefits from having people well educated.

• IS: 30 million Americans will have no health care insurance under Obamacare.
• COULD BE: All people who contribute reasonably to society have an equal right to the health care they need for free, with equitable rationing according to need when there is a scarcity of a required kind of care.

• IS: Public K-12 schools are controlled by and run for the benefit of the richest and most powerful Americans for the purpose of making working class children blame themselves for failing standardized tests (which are are a form of child abuse designed to fail a set percentage of children no matter how well students learn the material). In this way schools are used by the very rich to make working class children accept their place at the bottom of an increasingly unequal society and feel unworthy of having a good paying job or even a job at all because they are not "smart enough" or didn't work "hard enough" to score higher on the standardized test.
• COULD BE: Teachers and parents, who want to instill in all our children the confidence, skills and joy of learning that can enable them as adults to take charge of society and make it more equal and democratic and caring for all, run the schools in a genuine democracy.

• IS: Many people who are able and willing to work cannot find a job and thus suffer great economic hardship, simply because no employer finds it profitable to hire them. People unable to work (because of their age or a disability) must live in poverty on "welfare."
• COULD BE: To get a job requires nothing more than a) pitching in wherever people are doing work or b) learning a skill so as to be able to pitch in later, because the economy is not a capitalist economy based on profit, but a sharing economy in which all who pitch in reasonably according to ability (and all who are unable to work) share in the fruits of the economy with equal status according to need--no rich and no poor.

• IS: Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison owns mansions worth an estimated $200 to $250 million, while approximately 3.5 million Americans are homeless in a given year.
• COULD BE: All power is in the hands of local assemblies, open to all who support equality and mutual aid; and these assemblies decide if people like Larry Ellison are allowed to own so many houses, or if non-greedy people should be allowed to live in them as their own instead.

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The rich were never elected and cannot be un-elected, which means we need a revolution.

(from Thomas F. Barton's Military Resistance 11F7)

(from "What do Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil have in common?" by Jerome Roos

See "Thinking about Revolution" for discussion of a moneyless society

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison owns mansions worth an estimated $200 to $250 million, while approximately 3.5 million Americans are homeless in a given year.

Weapons of mass distraction

"Behind every great fortune there is a great crime."--Balzac

Tale of Two Explosions

"Good riddance," say South African and British working class people

Does 9/11 come to mind?

The Syrian People--YES! The Assad regime and U.S.-supported opposition to him--NO!

Global Revolution is Possible!

As they vowed earlier to do, Egyptian pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir square to the U.S. Embassy to march in support of Occupy Oakland—and against police brutality witnessed in Oakland, and similarly experienced in Egypt.

Bangladeshi Trade Unionists Stand in Solidarity with Workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Elsewhere

Political Spin 101

No matter what side of the AISLE you're on, THIS is ......FUNNY!
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory:

On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'

So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.

Harry Reid:

Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:

"Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed."

NOW THAT'S how it's done, Folks! That's real POLITICAL SPIN !!!

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BLOGS

TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN: John Spritzler's blog #1

END CLASS INEQUALTY: John Spritzler's blog #2

REAL DEMOCRACY = ORDINARY PEOPLE MAKE THE LAWS: a blog to replace the state Legislature with 100 randomly selected adult residents of the state serving terms of just one year, designated the Commonwealth Jury, that will have all the legislative and other powers of the current Legislature. [This was an attempt in 2008 to use a ballot question to promote discussion by the general public about the lack of real democracy in our current fake democracy. The solution it proposes is not as good as what is discussed in "Thinking about Revolution" written more recently. On December 2, 2012 the Boston Globe promoted the idea of a randomly selected legislature, as discussed here.]

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Click here to read about the inspiring Christmas Truce during World War I

Some thoughts about the Christmas truce

Evidence of another WWI Christmas truce between Canadian and German soldiers

Click the tree to read about the amazing WWI Christmas Truce