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Einstein opposed Zionist colonization in Palestine and predicted the current catastrophe
A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, a New York-based representative of the Stern Group, a Zionist paramilitary organization founded in Mandatory Palestine, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to journalist I.F. Stone.… Continue reading
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Mike Healy: ‘Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism’
Ever since German philosopher Hegel discussed alienation and Karl Marx converted it into the sensible framework of the economics of capitalism, alienation isn’t really a new subject–many might even think all has been said. Yet, Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics. His book delivers… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 October – 2 November 2013
2 November 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Who is the USA in Debt to? (II) 02.11.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV …Switzerland, Belgium, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Ireland each have a bundle of securities amounting to more than USD 100 billion, and each of them has external debt that far exceeds their GDP… It is one of Continue reading
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Are we being served? By William Bowles
Central to us on the left is the dilemma of a seemingly indifferent working class to the changes that impact directly not only on our material well-being but on the corporatisation of our cultural lives. Some argue that it’s down to the prevailing sense of powerlessness as the gulf between those who govern and the… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 October 2013
19 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Casts Blame for Expansion of Al-Qaeda on Turkey 19.10.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ It is no longer possible to conceal the obvious. The West, in its attempts to remove Bashar al-Asad from power during the years of the war in Syria, has nurtured a force so sinister Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 October 2013
12 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US: Debts and Back Up 12.10.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV The published piece called America’s Debt: Upper and Lower Tips of Iceberg offers a wide range of assessments to determine the size of US debt. Today the country has to raise the debt ceiling again, otherwise the United States will Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 29 September – 5 October 2013
5 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation CIA Activities in Syria: US Never Stops to Step on Same Rake 05.10.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV According to the Washington Post (CIA Ramping up Covert Training Program for Moderate Syrian Rebels, Oct.3), the CIA is expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria, as U.S. officials Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 22-28 September 2013
28 September 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation East Ghouta: False Flag Chemical Attack 28.09.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights (ISTEAMS) has just published a comprehensive report on the chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta. The document is called The Chemical Attacks on East Ghouta to Continue reading
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New at SCF 14-21 September 2013: Syria / Russia / Brazil-NSA / Ghouta / Libya
21 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation World Balance Reshaped 21.09.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai BOBKIN The United States has a custom of putting the countries, which have fallen out of its favor, on the “rogue states” list. Now it risks itself to be subject to international isolation. The Washington’s world political center status is being lost, Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 August – 7 September 2013: Syria-US / Golan / Iran-Syria / IMF / Iraq
7 September 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Global Irresponsibility 07.09.2013 | 10:50 | Georgy VOSKRESENSKY Next week the US Congress is to express its opinion on the reckless and staggering rush of Barack Obama as the President is pressuring the lawmakers to push through his decision to strike Syria. No details are known and they are changing Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 25-31 August 20103: Syria / Iran / Russia-USA / Brics / Latin America
31 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US – Syria: «Great Plans» Going Awry 31.08.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV In a whirlpool of rapidly changing events around Syria one fact seems to be indisputable. The US has very little international support, the plans to lead a representative international coalition have gone awry. It’s an outright foreign Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 August 2013: Syria / Iran / Eurasia /Egypt / Lebanon / Europe / Greece
24 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria 24.08.2013 | 09:31 | Finian CUNNINGHAM A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing Continue reading
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The Gentification of the Left By Mike Wayne, Deidre O’Neill
The post-colonial philosopher Gayatri Spivak once famously asked: ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ Colonialism though is not just about race, it is also about that great unmentionable, class. And class colonization is one of the most central features of British social and political life. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 August 2013: USA / Kosovo / Egypt / NSA – Brazil / ICC – Africa / Banking / US-Pakistan / US-Russia
17 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In Pursuit of Global Dictatorship, or When on Trial for the Truth 17.08.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The Snowden affair, which captured the attention of the world’s media, somewhat overshadowed another no less important story also linked to the creation of a global system of total surveillance and Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4 – 10 August 2013: USA / Greece / NSA / Drones – Pakistan / UK / Venezuela / 9/11 / Syria
10 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The War on Corruption or the Building of a Pax Americana? (II) 10.08.2013 | 13:21 | Valentin KATASONOV The scandal surrounding the revelations of Edward Snowden have made the question of why American intelligence was so active in Europe, more pointed. Without claiming to have a full answer, one Continue reading
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The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality By István Mészáros
Two closely connected propositions are at the center of this intervention: If development in the future is not sustainable development, there will be no significant development at all, no matter how badly needed; only frustrated attempts to square the circle, as in the last few decades, marked by ever more elusive “modernizing” theories and practices,… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 28 July – 3 August 2013: Snowden / Palestine / USA / Hamas / Asia-USA / Canada / Syria / SCO
3 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Snowden: Asylum Granted, Russia-US Ties to Go Through Rough Times 03.08.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia… At present Snowden has been relocated to a «safe place»… Sometime before the asylum was granted, Russia’s President Putin had said Edward Snowden has Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 21 – 27 July 2013: Russia-South Ossetia / Syria / Iran / USA / Detroit / Turkey / Japan / EU-NATO / Kosovo
27 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Time for a Serious Discussion on the Future of Global Cyberspace Has Come 27.07.2013 | 00:00 | Boris KAZANTSEV The Snowden affair, as expected, is snowballing, gathering more and more new details and revelations. This has already led to several international scandals (including the egregious example of what Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 14-20 July 2013: Egypt / Snowden / US Government …
20 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US, EU Pose as Honest Brokers While Backing Egypt’s Military Assault on Democracy 20.07.2013 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM Egypt’s political turmoil took on surreal dimensions this week with the swearing in of the military-backed interim civilian government. The procedure was shown «live» on national television, as if to Continue reading
The New Dark Age 