Time to take a stand

9/11 was a day which shook our country (America) to its core. People who would use religion as an excuse for war attacked our great nation on the grounds of its greatest city and two other locations. In doing so we lost roughly 2988 American citizens, but their memory and the spirit of what that memory means will live with us forever. Years have passed but it is still something all Americans carry in their hearts as a tragedy and there will never be a shortage of tears for the victims of that day.

The War in Iraq has been a complete disaster that is about as obvious as you can get. Following 9/11 the Bush administration used the opportunity to rush through a credible sounding excuse to go into Iraq. This was done on the backs of people with solid reputations and years of service to their country being pressured to lend credence to shaky evidence.

Upon entering college people prepare themselves for the real world through self discipline, new ideas and social experimentation. Testing society's boundaries is to be expected along with learning some personal ones. At a time when students are out of sight from their parents often the only persons left to provide guidance, assistance and assurance to impressionable minds are professors.

From 1995 to 2001 US government expenditures regarding intelligence contractors were roughly $20 billion a year. Following 9/11, in 2002, contracts rose to $32 billion. In 2003 they moved up again to $42 billion annually. Since then they have remained virtually the same regarding what's on the books publicly.

The culture of consumerism that is being promoted by the world’s governments, big business, and the media is imperiling the environment. A new culture of sustainability is desperately needed to set the planet on a more viable path. In the first chapter of State of the World 2010, Project Director Erik Assadourian examines where our wasteful culture came from, what its hallmarks are, and what you can do to help. This and other chapters from the report are now available for free download.

One of the disadvantages of current representative democracies is the discrepancy between the agenda of the regular citizen and the agenda of leaders and political elites. As the practices of direct democracy lose ground to the dominant-elitist decision making system, people's interest in the fairness of state policies decreases, and criticisms of governing actions are usually isolated and more symbolic than mobilizing.

A group of six anarchists were arrested in Belgrade at the 3rd of september under suspicion being connected with Black Elijah (Crni Ilija), which took responsibility for the 24th August molotov attack on the Greek embassy in Belgrade.

Is it Made in China?

The great similarities between the fascist policies of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip and the past atrocities of the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto

After the result of the parliamentary elections was made public, huge protests started on the streets of Chisinau on April 7th.

Now Moldavian and Romanian citizens in The Republic of Moldova [Bessarabia] are asking themselves if their rights have been nullified overnight. Who should protect them? Romanian and the EU just shrug their shoulders, while the Moldavian repression forces are intimidating, beating, seizing, deporting all those who are not going along with them.

Call for actions against the munic security confernce, an annual NATO-event in germany

* In the difficult times being experienced by the Venezuelan labour movement, perhaps the most dramatic issue have been the criminal acts that kills tens of trade unionists to the passivity of the pseudo-revolutionary government and the silence of his admirers from outside the country. It speaks about it this text of El Libertario # 55, January-February 2009.