Bill Hicks: Censored David Letterman Appearance to Air Jan 30 As Memorial

admin @ January 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet

from the official Hicks website: “The Late Show with David Letterman has scheduled a telecast of the never-aired October 1, 1993 Bill Hicks appearance. The show was pre-taped Jan. 26th (with Bill’s mom as a guest) and will air Friday, January 30th on your local CBS affiliate. We’d like to acknowledge and thank Bill’s many fans and everyone who has had a hand in keeping Bill’s comedy and philosophy alive. We hope everyone can tune in and experience what you may have missed or what you barely remember – Bill Hicks performing for a national audience on network television.”

>Continue >>

EyeWitness to History:An Obama Volunteer’s Report Cont’d

admin @ January 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet

So for your enjoyment in the meantime, please peruse some of the photos that John took from the ground level of the Mall. His Ianuguration Day randon photos can be viewed by clicking HERE .

>Continue >>

iPhone report: Reflections on the Inauguration‏

admin @ January 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United
States was an emotionally charged event for me and the people I met
today.

I met people from all over the country since I arrived Sunday night
and they all spoke of our new President as a poltican that will engage
the country and bring us together as a people.

Today was a huge celebration of our democracy.

>Continue >>

Eyewitness to History: A Volunteer’s Experience with the Obama Campaign

admin @ January 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Some moments of your life catch you by surprise. You work on Day One and the next thing you know, you are working nonstop and do not stop for seven months. Some of these moments are the culmination of a lifetime of interest. Some come because you feel like you can have an impact on something greater than yourself. A spring inside you has been flowing for most of you life and now it has been tapped. This moment introduces you to experiences and people you would have never experienced if Day One never happened. And as you look back on it, that moment, that one instance when you put one foot in front of the other and marched, was one of the greatest experiences of your life.

>Continue >>

GlobalPundit Jan15 Mini ReLaunch / AliveInBaghdad.Org

admin @ January 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Everything is essentially on the ball for the Jan 15 relaunch - we have some fantastic content just bursting to get out - one example being new contribitor John H McManus’ experience working for the Obama Campaign in PA…

But in the meantime, can I please direct your attention to another story and organization we’ll be covering?

Have a peek at Brian Conley’s www.AliveInBaghdad.Org, follow him at www.twitter.com/baghdadbrian and please note the new project they have underway at www.AliveInGaza.Org…

>Continue >>

Op Ed:President-Elect Obama, You Must NOT Be Silent

admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The fact is, while Mr. Bush, Mr. Olmert, Ms. Livni, Mr. Netanyahu, Ms. Rice, Mr. Cheney, Mr. al-Masri and the rest orchestrate their brutal murders, we will never advance as a species until we accept that ALL WARS ARE FAILURES. When you orchestrate a war that incinerates a child, the death of that child, the blood of that child, the loss of that child, will tarnish you forever. All situations are failures when innocents are harmed. If one child injures another in a sandbox, their play date was a failure. If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure. If a father burns his house down while attempting to warm it, the attempt was a failure. If children die in war, the war was a failure. Of this, I have not doubt.

>Continue >>

BRINKS or BLACKWATER: My Frightening Encounter With A Combat-Mode Guard & His Gun

admin @ December 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

For years since the United States invaded Iraq, I’ve witnessed countless photo and video images of innocent civilians - men, women, teens and children - being rudely and aggressively
threatened by hired uniformed militants (mostly men), wielding guns. I’ve seen these images from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti, Palestine, and more. Whether they be armed American military threatening Iraqis, armed Israeli soldiers threatening Palestinians, or armed Ethiopian troops threatening Somalis, the images have always disturbed me. There’s an inherent injustice to such blatant imbalance of power. An injustice I suffered recently myself.

>Continue >>

UPDATE: The New School In Exile; Citizen - Student Action

admin @ December 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The New School In Exile; Citizen Student Action
At this vert moment student of the New School are engaging in an “occupa(c)tion” directed by a specific and immediate mandate which they feel is in keeping with the progressive tradition of the institution.

The have posted a frequently updated blog to inform people on what is occuring, as well as their demands and the events that lead up to the events. The title of the blog / information post is ‘The New School in Exile’

The event’s catalyst, some would say, is former Nebraska Gov. and school president Bob Kerrey’s vote of no-confidence (kind of what like Prime Minister Stephen Harper has engaged to prevent here in Canada to protect his non-democratic mandate).

>Continue >>

Report: Munk Debate on Humanitarian Intervention

admin @ December 17, 2008 # One Comment

Christiane Amanpour’s CNN special tonight “Scream Bloody Murder” on genocide was quite timely after this week’s Munk Debate on Humanitarian Intervention. Both events posed the question of whether the international community has an obligation to intervene in situations of genocide and other man-made crises when a country is unable to protect itself? The most obvious example that comes to mind is that of Rwanda in the early 1990s…

>Continue >>

Nominate GlobalPundit.Org for Twitter’s Shorty Awards!

admin @ December 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Nominate GlobalPundit.Org for Twitter’s Shorty Awards!
http://shortyawards.com/?username=globalpunditorg
Like wot we do for such a shorthanded and unpaid group of newshounds? Independent of corporate influence and driven by news content and context?
Please consider going here: http://shortyawards.com/about/
and filling out “@shortyawards I nominate @globalpunditorg for a Shorty Award in #news because…”
we’d feel somewhat vindicated for the hard work we’ve done [...]

>Continue >>