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Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings” — Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Humanist Rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Atzmon’s statements, besides distorting the history of Jews and constituting a brazen justification for centuries of anti-Jewish behavior and beliefs, also downgrade anti-Zionism to a mere front in the broader (anti-Jewish) struggle. Atzmon has specifically described Zionism not as a form of colonialism or settlerism, but as a uniquely evil ideology unlike anything else in… Continue reading
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“Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
The “Friends of Syria” are a gang of political criminals, gathered in Tunisia to plan the latest in a series of destabilization campaigns that have all ended in colonial wars of aggression. Continue reading
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The sheep look down By William Bowles
The ability of ‘science fiction’ to extrapolate the future and it would seem often quite accurately, but one ignored by the priests of ‘high culture’ who consistently dismissed it as ‘genre’ writing, confined to a convenient niche where bug-eyed monsters live and bought where guys in dirty raincoats prowled. Continue reading
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Palestine: Hackney PSC’s Catastrophe Club presents a film and discussion
Tuesday 28th February, 7 for 7.30 start: on “Defamation” (dir. <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yoav Shamir, 2010, 93 mins) Plus: Q&A with <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Miri Weingarten This fascinating film looks at the political use of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Holocaust memory and anti-semitism claims. In his exploration of modern Israeli life, the filmmaker travels the world in search of the most modern Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 12, 2012
12 February <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>2012 — Stop NATO Turkey: NATO Could Its Invoke Its Article 5 For War Against Syria NATO Ground Forces Operational Headquarters To Be Built In Turkey CNN Poll: Should NATO Intervene In Syria? Pentagon To Upgrade 30,000-Pound Earth Penetrator Bombs NATO ABM: New-Generation Russian Radar Put On Combat Duty NATO Still Considering Continue reading
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Lansley’s NHS Demolition Bill – political strikes are both necessary and possible to defeat it!
The Tories are in deep trouble over Lansley’s health ‘reforms’. Their Lib Dem coalition partners are deeply split over it, in the Lords Shirley Williams appears to be among those fighting hardest to defeat it. The Labour Party meanwhile, though it has capitulated on the public sector pay freeze and on the wider issue of… Continue reading
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UK: Government ‘may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters
Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons. Continue reading
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Arab Uprisings Await Their Economic Spring By Yassine Temlali
The working class in the Arab world has accomplished a lot in the course of one year of uprisings. Some of these accomplishments are material, including higher wages and improvements in working conditions. Others are political, such as the right to democratic representation (the rise of Egyptian independent unions and changing the leadership of the… Continue reading
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A history lesson By William Bowles
The history of capitalism is the history of continuous revolutions in production: from the rural to the city; from cottage industry to factory; and finally from factory to ‘outsourcing’, the rise of the ‘service’ industry, de-industrialization and the financialization of capital. The end of an economy based on actual production and along with it, the… Continue reading
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NYTIMES Highlights CCR Witness Who was Stopped / Targeted by the NYPD
21 December 2011 — CCR On Sunday, The New York Times featured a powerful op-ed, Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?, authored by Nicholas K. Peart. Nicholas submitted a declaration in support of our recently filed motion for class certification in Floyd v. the City of New York. In the piece, he shares his experiences Continue reading
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Aleela
The tantalum for the capacitors and cobalt for the batteries which power our cell phones are often mined by children in Congo making twenty cents per day. Those children come from a society where rape of women and girls is endemic. Continue reading
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Russia united – for the time being (Part II) By Eric Walberg
Russia’s parliamentary elections have sparked a political crisis, surprising everyone, from President Putin (excuse me, Medvedev) down, including the demonstrators themselves, marvels Eric Walberg Continue reading
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UK Public Sector Strike: Osborne Lights the Fuse to a Perfect Storm
Osborne’s mini-budget, spewed forth in the House of Commons the day before the two million-strong one-day public sector strike over pensions, is a big ‘fuck you’ to the majority of the population of the UK. Continue reading
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Insurgent Notes | The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Today, after two months of occupations and the attacks on the occupations in Portland, Oakland and now Manhattan, OWS might be crossing a new threshold–a massive convergence of students in Union Square and a working-class convergence in Foley Square attempting to give reality to the growing calls for a general strike. Continue reading