July 2010
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Fending For Themselves By Dahr Jamail
Theresa is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. They are a small community of self-described Indians that live in southern Louisiana along a small stretch of the Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Now, oil from the BP disaster threatens their very existence. Continue reading
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Book review: A Road Not Taken – Cybernetic Socialism in the USSR By Paul Cockshott
This is a marvelous and unusual book. It sits in a remarkable way in between science popularisation, social history and fiction. The author describes it variously as a novel whose hero is an idea and a fairytale. The hero idea is that of optimal planning. The idea of running a planned economy in just such… Continue reading
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G-20 COMMITS ITSELF TO MORE “NEOLIBERALISM” By Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch: Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites G-20 objective Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 152 – 1st July 2010
NO2ID’s goal was never *just* to stop the ID card – it was, and is, to stop the creation of the database behind it – and any equivalent national registers used to manage the population, what we named the database state. The abolition of ID cards may be a significant victory, but the war is… Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 26 June – 3 July, 2010
3 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-06-28 Atai MOLDOBAEV (Kyrgyzstan) Origin of Kyrgyz Divide Between North and South “Relations between the northern and the southern parts of Kyrgyzstan had always attracted much attention from the Soviet power elite and remain a primary concern in today’s Kyrgyz Republic. Regional authorities in the north and in… Continue reading
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Nocturnal Terror in Silwan
Another night sets in on Silwan. Just two days ago, hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators marched together along the narrow streets of the neighborhood, to support the local residents, facing the municipality’s plan to demolish 22 houses. But here, as anywhere in east Jerusalem, happenings do not cease for a moment. Continue reading
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Today’s Must-See Animated Capitalist Takedown from RSA and David Harvey By Max Abelson
If you watch just one funny and handsome Marxist critique of the financial crisis, make it the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’s animated version of David Harvey’s RSA speech “Crises of Capitalism.” It’s been making the rounds this afternoon, and for good reason: Mr. Harvey, a Marxist scholar who heads… Continue reading
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Unanimous Conformity in the Senate By Norman Solomon
Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Call it the unanimity of lemmings — except the senators and their families aren’t the ones who’ll keep plunging into the sea. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: MCCHRYSTAL – DEATH SQUAD POSTER BOY
In May 2009, Petras sampled from McChrystal’s CV. The general had played a central role in directing units involved in “extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions”. He was “the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building”. Continue reading
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Jury clears activists who broke into Brighton arms factory By Bibi van der Zee and Rob Evans
Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes. Continue reading
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Toronto G20: “IT WAS DEHUMANIZING… COMPLETELY”
Toronto G20- Reports from witnesses and subjects of police action – testimony #1 from Queen and Spadina Continue reading
The New Dark Age 