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POPSAmerican Memories. B&W pics During the height of the movement, from 1967 to 1973, photographer Stephen Shames had unprecedented access to the organization and captured not only its public face—street demonstrations, protests, and militant posturing—but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private meetings held in the Party headquarters, to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland. The Black Panthers (Aperture, October 2006) brings together for the first time a remarkable collection of never-before-published images from Shames’s archive. This illuminating volume reveals how Shames’s insider status enabled him to create an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement, during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. Released on the occasion of the Party’s fortieth anniversary, The Black Panthers collectively conveys an electrifying visual history of one of America’s most important social movements.
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POPSOne Great Man, one good one, one Ok. One shite GULLIBILITY: "The art of swallowing the belief that one side in a two party kleplocracy is not going to screw you over like a drunken virgin at a Roman orgy" So, if you'll swallow shit(e) you get a shite runt like George, who has disgraced the Bush click forever. He's in his own unique group with Stalin and Mao in the number of deaths he is personally responsible for. Now will you elect another man killer, or a female who wants to, or another man of peace - black.
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POPSThe YANKS Deserved THANKS. A prosperous Ireland provides the model of how peace should be done without invasion or regime change. What worked. Essentially your stick was bigger than the UK stick. Clinton's assertion that Northern Ireland could no longer be treated as internal only and so achieved justice and civil right for ALL in the North and not just the privileged that controlled the apartheid statelet. We Irish don't do bullshit. Those words of out PM were meant, truly. Thanks America on behalf of the 40 million Irish-Americans and the millions back here.
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POPSArmy CoverUp Rape & Murder as Suicide
and would you believe, she then committed suicide? The Department of Defense statistics are alarming - one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. Now, even more alarming, are deaths of women soldiers in Iraq and in the US following rape. The military has characterized each death of women who were first sexually assaulted as deaths from "noncombat related injuries," and then added "suicide." The families of the women whom the military has declared to have committed suicide strongly dispute the findings and are calling for further investigations into the deaths of their daughters. Specific US Army units and certain US military bases in Iraq have an inordinate number of women soldiers who have died of "noncombat related injuries," with several identified as "suicides." 94 women have died in Iraq. 12 US civilian women have been killed there. 13 military women have been killed in Afghanistan. 12 civilian women have bee
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POPSGreen Zone looking like Sitting Duck
I was just thinking how the recent fighting in Baghdad, focused around the Green Zone and Sard City, had comparisons to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and those pictures of the US helicopters fleeing of the roof of the Hanoi US embassy. As a sidenote, It is interesting how an indigenous force uses the terrain and the weather while an occuping army fights against it. Could you imagine the US Army planing actions around sandstorms? I read that in Vietnam the Vietnamese quickly realized US actions, especially air strikes, always took a break for lunch. The USA should negotiate some final political settlement and get out of Iraq. I note there is a lot of the now-common propaganda between the lines involving latest battles, such as the idea the US is battling an "army." It is not an "army." It is a militia. It's made up of citizen soldiers mainly from their own neighborhoods. Compared to the US Army they are like fleas on the back of a dog; fleas that are apparently hard
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POPSBefore & Now! Leave? BEFORE: free healthcare, free education, better electricity and water services, security of law and order INVASION: No health, little education, power by the hour, some water, no law, no order. US; 4,000 dead military plus 10s of 1,000 of broken in mind and body. Iraq; 100,000 dead, displaced? Both America and Iraq broken for how long? Why again? WMD? Oil? Israel? Democracy? Regime change? Why not a Mossad assassins bullet if Saddam was ever the problem? CIA had no qualms before although Castro shows their incompetence at illegal regime change.
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POPSCheeney/Zionist Plan for Nuclear Against Iran! "Of the many American illusions and delusions surrounding this war, the Administration's calculations with respect to Iran were among the most wildly off base. Instead of generating a liberal, secular democracy whose reverberations would drive out Iran's clerical oligarchs, the disastrous Bush policies fostered a sectarian Iraq that has helped empower Iranian hardliners. Rather than serving as an anchor for a new era of stability and American preeminence in the Persian Gulf, the new Iraq represents a strategic black hole, bleeding Washington of military resources and political influence while extending Iran's primacy among its neighbours." ... American researcher Suzanne Maloney
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POPSFBI's response "a colossal overreaction". Typical now in US. Why the FBI chose to pursue this case is unclear, but Kurtz's supporters are convinced that it was an intentional attempt to punish an artist who is critical of the government's authoritarian tendency. As Nature magazine put it: "It seems that government lawyers are singling Kurtz out as a warning to the broader artistic community". Perhaps, as far as the FBI is concerned, a science experiment posing as politically-motivated art is a form of terrorism. ... Guardian Science and art aren't redneck fundamentalist notions of a good American.
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POPSSenlis Council: Did the Bush Gang get anything right? "The US is the common denominator in both countries – instead of containing the extremist elements in Somalia and Afghanistan, US policies have facilitated the expansion of territory that al-Shabab and the Taliban have psychological control over." Aid groups say Somalia, wracked by anarchy and violence for decades, is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis since 1993. According to Lazzarini, the UN head of humanitarian affairs for Somalia, 2.5 million people are in need of food or other aid. Against this grim backdrop, the Senlis Council, in its 79-page report, directly accused the US of undermining reconciliation efforts by backing the hardline president, Abdullahi Yusuf, instead of the more moderate prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein. According to the security thinktank, the US government in February disrupted negotiations with opposition parties - including hardline Islamists - by exerting pressure on the prime minister to exclude certain groups and individuals from a rec
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POPSWill US Respect Democratic Will of Nepal Electorate? They didn't respect the democratic will of Gazan when they elected Hamas to rule. Both have in common been on the US list of terrorist groups. Just like Nelson Mandela still is! Will the US now conspire to undo the democratic will of the Nepalese like they did with Hamas? The US record with apartheid South Africa hasn't been forgotten either. Looking to Israel is a good reminder daily. Is there a guaranteed of being democratically elected to have your party listed as a terrorist group by the USA?
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POPS24 hours in pictures - 17th April 10 Simbach am Inn, Germany: A sculpture of the river God Aenus looks out over the town. The sculpture caused controversy in the border area between Bavaria and Austria because the sculpture's buttocks point directly at the neighbouring Austrian town of Braunau 5 Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: People gather near newly dug graves of the victims of an air crash
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POPSChild Abuse in Sickening Detail. Death a relief Having read the details of this horrific child abuse, which is beyond anything I've previously read, I'm left incapable of rational thought. Recently there was a sex/cult event in Texas. In comparison with this it was a non-event. This has been kept hushed up. Why? Is it because of the involvement of a Haredi Orthodox Rabbi as the prime torturer? Recently another child abuser in Australia was given safe haven in Israel. Is it opportune while the pope seeks forgiveness in the USA, that abuse of children that would put the Nazis to shame would see the light of day in the 'free and fair' USA media. Is there a word on this atrocity? What society allowed this to happen? This was no overnight phenomenon. What religion sees it as creed to torture children beyond what would be acceptable to the worst criminal or terrorist? How sick is the society?
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POPSZionist Prove Carter Correct about Israeli Apartheid while putting his life in Danger! Is this a case of the Scorpion and Frog. Would the Zionist always bit the hand that feeds it? Would they always revert to type and display their fascist Apartheid policy. Or are they just ungrateful curs that are ungracious as host to the former president of the United States? Were they willing to put his life in danger in a war zone by refusing the request from US agents charged with guarding Carter. Such disrespect for America has not been shown since the Israeli IAF attacked USS Liberty, murdering 33 US servicemen.
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POPSShock & Awe: The Barbarians are at the Gate! In the grand scheme of REAL civilization what will be remembered? The looting of the oil or the the destruction of the remains of a glorious civilization? Who gave the order to protect the Oil Ministry while encouraging/allowing the destruction of priceless antiquities by mindless looters as US troops looked on with tacit approval and all live on TV. Barbarians and Vandals gave the orders. Real crimes against our humanity and all civilization. Well not in my name.
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POPSand China is Worse than this? What a perversion of justice. And all for ONE trial with a 9 month sentence so far. Out of nearly 700 POWs there may be only 80 cases after all the torture that they will even bring to their kangaroo court show trail. What a system. What an advert for American 'democracy'. Were the Nazis as unjust as this never mind China. I know one thing for absolute certainty; one country is moving forward while the other is racing backwards. Most countries make at least a pretence at dispensing justice to its foes while Bush appears to intend to deliberately offend normal basic standards and to goad even more terrorism to justify his misnomer 'War on Terror'.
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 11th 7. Rome, Italy: Silvio Berlusconi puts out his hand for television host, Bruno Vespa to smell, during the recording of a show. Berlusconi asked Vespa to smell his hand saying it has "the scent of sainthood" because of what he believes he's had to go through during the election campaign 8. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Journalist Felipeh Campos and fashion designer Rafael Scapucim kiss after getting married in a candomble religious ceremony, the first of its kind in Brazil 10. San Juan Alotenango, Guatemala: This town hall was gutted after riots between locals and police which left two dead and 30 wounded. The incident occurred after the police captured a criminal that locals wanted to lynch 11. Manchester, UK: The swimming pool is reflected in a disco glitter ball during the World Short Course Swimming Championships 14. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: A light installation above the city which is part of the Luminale 2008 festival 15. Wuhan, China: A worker walks on top of a pil
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POPSUSA shamed by Mandela terror link: Apartheid connections! If I was choosing a candidate for sainthood, then there would be one at the top of my list and with a big gap to the next candidate. Saint Nelson, the peacemaker sounds good to me! Now remember, officially he's a terrorist! ! ! I say this on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Peace Agreement.
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POPSOldest Iraq Casualty: Americas SHAME After years of being away from hosting that daily, national discussion, Donahue returned to TV in 2002 as the host of a nightly debate-style program on MSNBC. For many people, the show was a much-needed breath of fresh air on the cable networks, increasingly dominated by right-wing pundits and media personalities. Antiwar voices long kept off these cable news channels were suddenly given a seat in the forbidden studios to take part in a national debate about the so-called war on terror. Donahue was on in the same time slot as Fox’s Bill O"Reilly. But the show didn’t last long. In fact, it didn’t even last a year, even though it was MSNBC"s top-rated program. When Donahue was fired, the network moved to hire a string of right-wing hosts. ...DN! I loved him. Replaced by... crap. How? Who owns the media in America?
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POPSSecret US plan for military future in Iraq "The feeling in Baghdad is that this agreement is going to be rejected in its current form, particularly after the events of the last couple of weeks. The government is more or less happy with it as it is, but parliament is a different matter." said one well-placed Iraqi Sunni political source. ... Guardian
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POPSSolzhenitsyn: Bush believes "looney fable" Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's Gulag, was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, returning from the US in 1994. His later statements have demonstrated an increasingly nationalist anti-western tone.
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POPSMaiming in your Name: "the sovereign" Bush In a 2003 memo released yesterday, the US justice department extended the sweeping wartime powers claimed by Bush to military interrogators, giving them freedom from criminal laws when questioning al-Qaida suspects. The 81-page brief was released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which fought the administration in court to secure the release of documents. ...Guardian
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