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Of Noodges And Nukes: Roseanne Barr Wants To Drop A Bomb On UC Davis

February 13, 2015 By Cindy Sheehan for the Soapbox People’s Network Leave a Comment

I’d like to thank the universal goodness that former comedian turned death monger Roseanne Barr does not (I hope) have access to nuclear weapons.

I say “former” comedian because in the last few years Barr has taken a decidedly unfunny turn and outlook on life.

After Barr accused Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of being a “Zionist” in the 2012 Green Party primaries (which Stein won and Barr lost), and after running for president on the ticket of the stridently antiwar Peace and Freedom Party, Barr has used her Twitter account to become a mega-Zionist. I stopped following her after she urged Israel to nuke Iran. As a human being, nothing to me is more monstrous.

Recently, the person who used her acting skills to convince me and the Peace and Freedom Party that she was also about peace tweeted this to her almost 300k followers on Twitter:

Filed Under: Elections, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: American imperialism, BDS, BDS Movement, boycott, capitalism, Davis, divest, divestiture, divestment, Dr. Jill Stein, election 2012, Green Party, imperialism, Iran, Israel, Jill Stein, Peace and Freedom Party, POTUS, Roseanne Barr, sanctions, social media, Twitter, UC Davis, University of California, War, Zionism

Interpreting Media Coverage Of The Chapel Hill Shooting

February 12, 2015 By Amel Guettatfi 3 Comments

The fatal shooting of Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammed, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammed Abu-Salha, 19 in a Suburban neighborhood in North Carolina was reported more than 12 hours after the fact on national television. Chapel Hill Police released the identity of the self-confessed killer, Craig Hicks, 46, approximately seven hours after a 911 call by a distressed neighbor. He reportedly shot all three of them, point blank, in the head.

Why did it take so long for national media to pick the story up? Their silence stood in stark contrast to prompt coverage of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris last month. Only after a social media outburst protesting their lack of coverage did we see CNN, FOX and MSNBC headline the shooting of 3 Muslims in Chapel Hill.

This initial radio-silence reinforced the other-ness of Muslim Americans as well as other minorities in the US. It spoke louder than any anti-Muslim messages online could have.

Filed Under: Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: #ChapelHillShooting, #MuslimLivesMatter, Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein, Albuquerque, California, Chapel Hill Police, Chapel Hill Shooting, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, corporate media, Craig Hicks, Deah Barakat, Dean Obeidallah, FOX, Fox News, Freedom of Religion, hate crimes, Islam, Islamophobia, Kansas City, mainstream media, Missouri, MSM, MSNBC, Muslim Lives Matter, Muslims, New Mexico, North Carolina, Paris Attacks, police, propaganda, racism, Raleigh, Razan Mohammed Abu-Salha, San Francisco, Seham Jaber, social media, terrorism, The Daily Beast, victim blaming, Yusor Mohammed

The Authoritarianism Of The American Police State

February 3, 2015 By Matt Peppe Leave a Comment

Two days before Christmas, a “thug” launched an “unprovoked attack” on a female MTA employee on a Bronx subway platform, “choking her” and causing injuries, according to the Daily News. The “hulking brute” then fled the scene, “grinning as he made his may through the turnstile.”

The newspaper’s description conjures images of a fanatical psychopath, aggressively assaulting an innocent victim and showing a twisted pleasure in his deranged actions while escaping. Several days later the perpetrator was located, but he was not arrested. On Friday, more than a month later, police announced he will face only misdemeanor charges.

The perpetrator was allegedly discovered when he saw video of himself on the news and turned himself in, police said. Incidentally the man, 37-year-old Mirjan Lolja, is himself an NYPD policeman.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Ben Popper, Black Lives Matter, CounterPunch, Eric Garner, Facebook, Ferguson, history, I can't breathe, Jelani Henry, Joseph Lhota, Mike Brown, Mirjan Lolja, MTA, New York, New York City, New York Daily News, New York Police Department, New York Times, NYPD, police, police accountability, police brutality, police state, prison, prison reform, prisons, propaganda, racism, Raven Rakia, Rikers Island, Sam Mitrani, social media, Tamir Rice, The Verge, Truthout, William Glaberson

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