Coulter Calls for Murder, Again

Frederick Clarkson

Sat Dec 03, 2011 at 07:48:49 PM EST

Nationally syndicated provocateur Ann Coulter has once again justified the murder of people of whom she does not approve.

Media Matters reports that this time she told San Francisco radio talk show host Bryan Sussman that Occupy Wall Street protesters should be shot, much as anti-war protestors were shot in the notorious episode at Kent State during the Vietnam war. She describes OWS protesters, in the manner of the Religious Right, as "demonic" and "evil."


"... just remember the lesson from my book: it just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good."

Coulter also said:

"This is the first time they got bullets back... and that put an end to the protests pretty quickly."
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Campaign of Death Threats, Stalking and Vandalism Against Anti-Occupation Leaders Continues as Israeli Press Faces More Gag Rules

Sunday 4 December 2011
by: Richard Silverstein, Truthout | Report

Israel today faces one of the greatest threats to its existence. No, I'm not referring to Iran, nor the Palestinians, Egypt or Syria. The threat comes from within.

The Israeli Knesset has either approved or is considering a raft of legislation that would fundamentally change the democratic character of the state of Israel. It has already passed a law which would criminalize public support for the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement. Other bills would prohibit foreign funding of Israeli nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), declare Israel to be a Jewish state, remove Arabic as one of the country's national languages, dramatically increase penalties in libel suits and allow plaintiffs to recover without having to prove damages, make online publishers liable for comments published at their blogs or web sites, and force Internet service providers (ISPs) to reveal personal information about such commenters to the police.
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Jim Crow 2.0: Disenfranchised by Design

Max Eternity, Truthout: "President Obama has chosen to remain silent on the death penalty question, making no comment on the Davis decision. Yet for decades, advocates around the world have been pressing America to swear off the death penalty forever. And now that the nation finds itself at a truly grim crossroads, resonating outrage and disgust at America's distorted sense of equality and justice, Michelle Alexander - attorney, legal scholar and author - continues her quest."
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US Drug Agents Launder Profits of Mexican Cartels

NYT ARTICLE HERE

Ginger Thompson, The New York Times News Service: "Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are."
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Educide: The (Further) Destruction of Iraq's Higher Education

Thursday 1 December 2011
by: Dirk Adriaensens, Pacific Free Press | News Analysis

On 6 October Ali Al-Adeeb, the current Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, announced a new three-year higher education reform plan covering the years 2011-14 to rebuild Iraq’s destroyed higher education system, by giving financial and administrative independence to universities, according to its website[1].

SUBJECTS:

--The Minister of Higher Education: a fox in the hen house?

--Blazing Fires, Forged Degrees

--Silencer Guns

--Ali Al-Adeeb: Forged Diploma?

--Ali Al Adeeb’s virulent sectarianism and selective deba’athification

--Uprooting the remnants of Iraq's intellectual class

--Death Squads inside the Ministry of Higher Education?

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Rejecting Apology, US May Hasten End of Pakistan as Client

Saturday 3 December 2011
by: Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service | News Analysis

Washington - President Barack Obama has sided with U.S. military and Defence Department officials in rejecting a proposal by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for a U.S. apology for last weekend's attack on two Pakistani border posts, and approving an investigation into the attack that won't be completed until Dec. 23 at the earliest.

The White House and the military bloc are gambling that the lengthy investigation into the attack that killed 25 Pakistani troops will defuse popular Pakistani anger and that final report will allow the Obama administration to return to a more aggressive policy toward Pakistan in 2012.
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Social Movements vs. "Social Movements": Comparing Occupy and the Tea Party

Sunday 4 December 2011
by: Scott Borchert, Truthout | Interview

Scott Borchert interviews Anthony DiMaggio on his new book, "The Rise of the Tea Party: Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama" out in November 2011 from Monthly Review Press.

Scott Borchert: Your primary focus as a scholar is on media and communications. Why a book on the Tea Party?

Anthony DiMaggio: I've also researched and participated in social movements and interest-group politics consistently for the last ten years, although much of my research does focus on media and public opinion.
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