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Margot Paez, founder of InsightOut News was on RT America this week! Check out her analysis of the co-opting of and the future for the movement.
Public Outcry Falls On Deaf Ears: Water District Board Approves Rate Increase, Pay Raises and Bonus
LA HABRA HEIGHTS, CA – Despite last week’s La Habra Heights County Water District’s rate hearing, where a meeting room full of ratepayers voiced strong opposition to a series of rate hikes and 580 submitted written protests, the board voted unanimously this week to pass a budget that would implement the first set of rate…
Water District Continues to Target Local Journalist On Rate Hike Protest
LA HABRA HEIGHTS, CA – Despite receiving no objections from Los Angeles County election officials to have a table at the County’s polling place earlier this week, Stephen Blagden, a local journalist spearheading the protest of an upcoming La Habra Heights County Water District water rate increase, was questioned by a city official and targeted…
Margot Paez Weighs In On Occupy Movement Co-opting
Margot Paez, founder and reporter for InsightOut News, spoke today about the future of the occupy movement, examining the issues of co-optation by outsiders, and new ways of making real change for Americans.
Atrocities Of War In The Age Of Mass Media
READING: LA Times’ ”US Troops Posed With Body Parts Of Afghan Bombers” OUR TAKE: The LA Times’ decision to publish photos of members of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division posing with the body parts of dead Afghan insurgents has met criticism from some of the nation’s highest ranking military and government officials. Military officials had…
As U.S. Announces Readiness To Enforce Sanctions, Questions Still Arise Over Existence Of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
READING: New York Times’ “Obama Finds Oil In Markets Is Sufficient To Sideline Iran” OUR TAKE: President Obama today cleared the way towards imposing tougher sanctions on Iran. After months of studies on world oil production and demand, it has been decided that the world can function without oil provided by Iran. Determination of oil…
The Rumsfeldian Trayvon Martin Killing: There Are Known Knowns And There Are Known Unknowns
READING: Orlando Sentinel’s Police: Zimmerman says Trayvon decked him with one blow then began hammering his head OUR TAKE: The latest in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is that Sanford police leaked information in an attempt to show that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense, but witness testimony and 911 calls paint a conflicting story…
Al-Shater And The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Quest For Political Dominance
Khairat Al-Shater made his bid to be Egypt’s next president official this Thursday by submitting candidacy papers at the Presidential Election Committee headquarters in Heliopolis. Thousands of youth rallied around Al-Shater and his family in a display of unity. They responded to accusations that a rift is growing within the upper echelons of the Egyptian…
Bahrain’s Stifled Spring
Over the course of the past year, peoples throughout the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have risen up against repressive regimes to fight for democracy. In each of the countries in which this “Arab Spring” has taken hold there has been widespread government crackdown. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, this has led…
Syria’s Fractured Opposition
As events become more tumultuous in Syria, questions must be posed as to who the driving forces behind the “rebellion” are. What began as a people’s movement for democracy has become clouded by an array of factions serving seemingly incompatible interests. The fracturing of the conflict ridden Syrian National Council (SNC) is just the most…
Sunni And Shia, Conflicting Views
Following up on our tour of the various factions involved in Middle Eastern affairs, we take a look at the evolution of the Sunni and Shi’ite sects of Islam and the growth of the state of Islam. The fracture between the two sects dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad. The Prophet’s father-in-law…
Who Are The Alawites?
The Alawites have inhabited the coastal mountain area of Syria for more than a thousand years. For the majority of that time, they knew only persecution from the Sunni majority inhabiting Syria. Alawites generally keep the tenets of their faith secret to outsiders, however their religious observances do not include the emphasis on prayer, pilgrimage,…
The “Arab Spring”
While originating from the same desire for freedom and democracy as other nations of the “Arab Spring”, the Syrian uprising has become a far more complex beast, of which the consequences spread far beyond the middle east region. Heated debate has sprung between nations who long have been at odds, straining efforts in diplomacy between…