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Nissan Union Leaders From South Africa Shocked by Anti-Union Conduct in U.S.

Do Better Nissan
“In South Africa, the Chief Operating Officer of Nissan sat down and listened to me,” said Witness Ndlovu, a union steward at Nissan’s South Africa South Africa Delegationplant . Ndlovu is a member of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the national autoworkers union in South Africa. “I am surprised and shocked,” he said, “by the fact that Nissan interferes so blatantly with the right of U.S. workers to have a voice in the workplace.”

Britain's Dirty War in Ireland Exposed

Jerry Adams The Guardian
A BBC Panorama show reveals how in this conflict, like in other colonial wars, politicians surrendered power to the generals, at a deadly cost

New Momentum for Anti-Capitalism Protests?

Deutsche Welle
Decentralized protests instead of large rallies - this is Blockupy's modus operandi. At a meeting in Frankfurt, the critics of capitalism are planning new demonstrations against the EU's strict austerity measures

Friday Nite Videos -- November 22, 2013

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Stephen Colbert: Nuclear Option in the Senate. Woody -- All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose. Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur. Every Nuclear Test. Music Love Army: We Are Not for Sale.

All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose

Woody Guthrie's guitar famously bore the legend, This Machine Kills Fascists. Here are the Woody lyrics (probably dating to the 1940s) that most directly spell out this message, with appropriate pictures of contemporary bad guys. Woody's confidence in the victory over fascism was the flip side of his confidence in the victory of the common people who, he sang, were Bound for Glory.

Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur

Move over, T. rex. Sian meekorum is a new, 100 million year old carnivorous dinosaur, rivaling T. rex is size and predating it by some 40 million years. Sian, whose fossils were discovered in Utah, is one of the two or three largest North American dinosaurs.