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Human Rights Watch: No mercenaries in eastern Libya Human Rights Watch says it has seen no evidence of mercenaries being used in eastern Libya. This contradicts widespread earlier reports in the international media that African soldiers had been flown in to fight rebels in the region as Muammar...

Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective by Gerald A. Perreira The conflict in Libya is not a revolution, but a counter-revolution. The struggle “is fundamentally a battle between Pan-African forces on the one hand, who are dedicated to the realization of Qaddafi's...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6177574 NFL owners' false labor pains Are you the kind of person who loves hearing the bug zapper? Who likes it when the highway paves over a few neighborhoods? Who secretly wants the tank to flatten the kid with the flower? Then you're going to...

http://www.thegrio.com/sports/5-ways-nfl-stars-can-survive-the-looming-lockout.php The pending lockout of NFL players is expected by some to be a matter of history repeating itself. Team owners, hungry to earn an even larger profit from their business ventures, are going to keep the players...

NFL Players Ill-Prepared For Lockout by Tim McManus on Feb 28, 2011 - 12:02 am | 7 comments The current NFL labor strife has been labeled a battle of billionaires vs. millionaires. The lockout could begin at 11:59 p.m. Thursday night, so the clock is ticking quickly now. In reality, it is a...

Former Sonics forward Shawn Kemp wasn’t impressed by the stunt that won the dunk contest for Los Angeles Clippers rookie Blake Griffin. “I’m a big Blake Griffin fan, but that dunk at the contest might have been the weakest dunk in the dunk contest that I’ve seen in a long time,” Kemp told KJR’s...

Report Back from 2/26/11: Anti-Cop Action Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 12:44pm On the night of February 26th, 20 anarchists dressed in black with masks covering their faces met at the intersection of Boren and Howell (where John T Williams was killed) in Seattle. A banner was...

http://qik.com/video/38025087 A few thousand inside are refusing to go. A few thousand outside ready to take their place if they can. Organizers are giving out ACLU phone number to people for when they get forcibly removed and jailed. **Edit** link updated. OG link is down as WiFi was cut...

Frostbite and Freedom: Tom Morello on the Battle of Madison By Tom Morello FEBRUARY 25, 2011 5:25 PM ET I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations. I've been arrested more times than I'm willing to put in print...

" Selene is a five track hip-hop EP inspired by the 2009 sci-fi movie Moon written and directed by Duncan Jones. I saw this movie, loved it, and thought the original soundtrack written by Clint Mansell was great as well. Each track samples a song from the film’s score. To complete Selene, I...

“The Wisconsin Lie Exposed: Taxpayers Actually Contribute NOTHING To Public Employee Pensions” When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees' fight over collective bargaining...

http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=585 Press Release: #OpWisconsin Dear Citizens of the United States of America, It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch--the billionaire owners of Koch Industries--have long attempted to usurp American Democracy...

http://readydemolitionfilm.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-robert-de-niro-no-longer-matters.html Why Robert De Niro No Longer Matters Let's get down to brass tacks. Robert De Niro has destroyed his status as one of the greatest actors of our time. His career hasn't merely gotten of track. This...

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How NFL Players Memorize Dizzying Playbooks You may want to read this on the webpage as there are images and tables, but I thought I would provide the text for those that don’t want to click over. http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/02/24/method-men-how-nfl-players-memorize-dizzying-playbooks/ NFL...

Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About How screwing unions screws the entire middle class.— By Kevin Drum IN 2008, A LIBERAL Democrat was elected president. Landslide votes gave Democrats huge congressional majorities. Eight years of war and scandal and George W. Bush had stigmatized...

The Day the Movies Died You want to understand how bad things are in Hollywood right now—how stifling and airless and cautious the atmosphere is, how little nourishment or encouragement a good new idea receives, and how devoid of ambition the horizon currently appears—it helps to start with a...

Take ‘Em Down – The Dropkick Murphys stand with Wisconsin Hey Everyone the Dropkick Murphys would like to take a moment to acknowledge the struggles of the working people of Wisconsin and to pledge our support and solidarity by releasing the song “Take Em Down” from our upcoming album. We think...

fI-YxjVGpVQ ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Thousands of workers in Greece joined a general strike Wednesday that affected services in transportation, schools, banks and hospitals, officials said. The ninth general strike held to protest austerity budget cuts came as Prime Minister George...