The difference between wanting to and being able to (tags)
The war has exacted an enormous price in terms of human lives, destruction, economic and political collateral damage in Ukraine, in the EU and worldwide. Its continuation would further increase the horrors.The war has changed shape: it has become a proxy war and a war of world order between the West and Russia.
There is broad agreement that freedom should not only be measured in terms of one's own well-being, but also in terms of others, especially the socially disadvantaged, and in solidarity with those who lack recognition. The strong welfare state is widely accepted, even by those who pay more than they receive.
Re-nationalizing Soviet History and Who breaks the international rules? (tags)
The construction of differentiated historical narratives that overcome one-dimensional perpetrator-victim polarizations in discourse with other affected nations and integrate one's own complicity step by step is an extremely laborious, painful process. It will probably take decades.
The virus as enemy and subject A very conspicuous phenomenon for rhetorically evading any political responsibility is, on the one hand, to shift it to the population by dutifully supporting and participating in all measures and, on the other hand, to speak of the virus as an acting subject bearing responsibility.
Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages (tags)
Wells Fargo has been accused in lawsuits of significantly extending mortgage loan terms of customers in bankruptcy without their knowledge.
In regard to the upcoming 2016 San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair: (tags)
The San Francisco Bay Area's anarchist subculture critically examined, in the context of it's most significant public ritual...
What I Didn't Read in the TTIP Reading Room (tags)
Katja Kipping was one of the first German MPs to gain access to the new TTIP reading room opened in Berlin this week, and she has written up a report of her experience. We thought it was well worth translating from the original, ‘The Opposite of Transparency’.
No Letup in Anti-Russian Propaganda (tags)
Russia
Greek Rape and Pillage Bailout Deal: Germany Wants More (tags)
Greece
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Gratuitous Mass Murder (tags)
anti-war
Banker Occupied Greece: Requiem for a Failed State (tags)
Greece
Iran Nuclear Talks: Agreement in Vienna (tags)
Iran
Greece
Tentative Deal on Iran Sanctions Relief? (tags)
Iran
Greece May Become BRICS Member (tags)
Greece
Troika Rejects Greek Bailout Extension (tags)
Greece
Greece Announces Referendum on Bailout Terms (tags)
Greece
Iran
Israel: A Force of Pure Evil (tags)
Israel
Obama's Endless War on Humanity (tags)
Obama
Iranian Nuclear Program Framework Deal Postmortems (tags)
Iran
Iranian Nuclear Program Framework Deal: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Iran
Poroshenko: Declaring Peace, Waging War (tags)
Ukraine
Kiev Breaches Minsk Agreement (tags)
Ukraine
Minsk Agreement: What's Most important to Know (tags)
Ukraine
Israel's Gaza War Continues (tags)
Israel
Israel Attacks Gaza Border Areas (tags)
Israel
Kiev Wants War, not Peace (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine in the Eye of the Storm (tags)
Ukraine
Climate Change and the Great Inaction, 20pp (tags)
More information at www.climateandcapitalism.com, www.commondreams.org, www.onthecommons.org, www.therealnews.com, www.truth-out.org, www.submedia.tv, www.citizen.org and www.worklessparty.org
Israel Obstructs Gaza Rehabilitation (tags)
Gaza
Israel Breaches Gaza Ceasefire Agreement (tags)
Gaza
Netanyahu: Israel's Pinochet (tags)
Israel
Ukraine
Ukraine
Kiev Violates Four-Party Agreement (tags)
Ukraine
Israel Bombs Gaza - Again (tags)
Israel
Russian Ukrainian Aid v. US/EU Neoliberal Harshness (tags)
Ukraine
Washington's Dirty Game in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
AIPAC Pressure Threatens Iran Nuclear Deal (tags)
Iran
Peace Without Occupation (tags)
Israel
Proposed Senate Bill Risks Undermining Geneva (tags)
Iran
Israeli Business As Usual (tags)
Israel
Aafia Siddiqui: Victim of US Injustice (tags)
police state
Hints of official Trans-Pacific Partnership resistance (tags)
“Free trade” agreements don’t have anything to do with trade; they have everything to do with tightening the grip of corporate dominance over every aspect of life. It is precisely to minimize potential pressures from social movements that the TPP is being negotiated in complete secrecy.
Greater Grand Theft Cyprus (tags)
class war
class war
America's Draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (tags)
police state
Newspeak Rules: How Neoliberalism Explains the World (tags)
Originally positive terms were devalued in the last decades (social state became "welfare dictatorship") Social dislocations are charged to the impacted themselves. The scandal of poverty mutates to the scandal of the poor themselves.
Intifada Activism Needed (tags)
Israel
Netanyahu Mocks Legitimate Governance (tags)
Israel
Netanyahu Plans More War (tags)
Israel
Chicago Teachers Union Sellout (tags)
education
Israel Reneges on Hunger Striker Deal (tags)
Israel
Palestinian Footballer Wins Release (tags)
Israel
Hunger Strike Aftermath (tags)
Israel
Greece: The Epicenter of Global Pillage (tags)
class war
Tweet This At Your Own Risk (tags)
If you're emailing your mom about a freak (and don't spell it phreak, because that's on the list too) ice storm in San Diego that dropped a foot of snow, you'll be on some list somewhere.
Financial Oligarch Power Raping Greece (tags)
class war
Duplicitous Mortgage Settlement Deal (tags)
class war
Critical thinking and cultural shock have the power to turn the world upside down (like Jesus' parables and zen koans). Trivializing structural/systemic economic problems as motivational, psychological, bumps in the road or industrial accidents is a perversion.
Washington's UN War Resolution on Libya (tags)
war
Georgia Bible Belt artists critique class disparity: FREE MONEY (tags)
Team of middle Georgia artists invite public to agree to terms of contract, hand out enhanced dollar bills for redistribution of wealth.
Corruption, callousness and cynicism reeking from every pore of the system has become almost impossible to miss even by the masses of benighted Americans who continue to believe that the American Way of Life‚ "despite its flaws", remains the best that humankind can achieve in terms of self-governance.
NOW WE GET IT~ AMERICAN POOR MUST BE GOING TO BE BLESSED BY INTERNATIONAL BILLIONAIRES ?? (tags)
COOL IT POOR AMERICANS, MAYBE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WEALTHY ELITE BILLIONAIRES WILL BE SENDING THEIR CHARITY $$ TO OUR AMERICAN POOR ???
The whitewash in the British Iraq war inquiry is already in place. (tags)
The whitewash, as usual, is in ‘The Terms of Reference.’
"The Internet is an Open Sewer" (tags)
The msintream media complains about how they're obsolete and how citizen journalism such as Indymedia is taking over.
Welch's Marvelous Transformation (tags)
Nearly all the excesses summarized unter the terms turbo- or casino capitalism are based on the ideology of shareholder value: the rule of financial markets over the real economy, the short-term and short-sightedness of shareholders and waves of rationalizations."
Neoliberal Definitional Power (tags)
"What is central is ending the constant expropriation of employees, not the expropriation of entrepreneurs." Market fundamentalists stylize every tax as expropriation as though they had no responsibility for paying for roads, schools, health care, police, fire departments and water-food supervision.
The spirit, Seth, began to transmit metaphysical information to Jane Roberts and her husband during the late 1960s. Many books containing Seth's wisdom have been published and translated into many foreign languages. Millions of copies
AJLPP Support the Protest Vs Charter Change Dec 12 in the Phiippines (tags)
ntly condemns in the highest terms the GMA controlled House of Representatives led by well known GMA puppets Speaker Prospero Nograles that the impeachment complaint by voting it down by a vote of 183-21 Last December 2. The AJLPP also hail the Thai people in their recent victory against the deposed Thai prime minister Songchai who was ordered to quit by Thai Constitutional court for cheating in the elections. The AJLPP based in the United States and the Filipino American community also strongly and militantly supports the mass actions on December 12th against the charter change and against the imperial and fascist presidency of Gloria-Macapagal-Arroyo in Manila and the rest of the Philippines.
Dan Siegel & Pacifica Radio (tags)
Dan Siegel is now both interim Executive Director and General Counsel for Pacifica. He intervened in last fall's KPFA board election to help insure a victory for the Sherry Gendelman slate. Meanwhile, the board election at WBAI, the Pacifica sister station in New York, was even more blatantly corrupt than the one at KPFA, and it became the subject of a court case. In this letter, counsel for the plaintiffs tells the Pacifica National Board (PNB) that Dan Siegel is "an unreliable source of legal advice and facts about this lawsuit."
YouTube slaps young children (tags)
Numerous young You Tube artists and actors have been canceled by Google which purchased the popular You Tube web site.
Stop LA City Council Power Grab: Vote NO Measure R (tags)
Stop LA City Council Power Grab: Vote NO Measure R
Stop LA City Council Power Grab: Vote NO Measure R (tags)
Stop LA City Council Power Grab: Vote NO Measure R
Bomb Plots, Elections, Smokescreens, and the Way Forward (tags)
The author argues that an election victory in November will do nothing to halt the Bush regime agenda of global empire. Only by ousting the regime can that be accomplished.
Bob Avakian: Religion, Morality ... Polarization, Repolarization (tags)
EDITORS NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts on various subjects—drawn from conversations and discussions, as well as more formal talks, by Bob Avakian—which we will be running in this newspaper over the next period of time. This has been edited for publication, and subheads and footnotes have been added
Report FromHuman Rights Watch About Mass Abuses of Psychiatry in Mao's China and Today (tags)
China continues to use psychiatry as a political tool to suppress open discussion of it's policies. This began under the regime of Mao Zedong, reached it's peak during the so-called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution abd continues today with false terms used.
Making transsexual lives visible (tags)
Interview with transsexual scholar viviane K. Namaste from The New socialist Magazine, Issue 39: December 2002 - January 2003
THE REAL MOVEMENT OF THE SOCIETY (tags)
THE REAL MOVEMENT OF THE SOCIETY
"Free Speech Zones" contradiction in terms (tags)
Lirot says that "Free Speech Zones" are a contradiction in terms. The unelected fascist baby killer can't decide to move anti-fascism protests out of sight while allowing pro-fascism ralleys.
Words to Seduce the Left (tags)
Watch as I make a seemingly "anti-business" argument designed to fit within the Left's world view, but ... TA-DA!!! ... I actually make an argument in favor of laissez-faire... now that's how to "serve it up with a LEFT SPIN"
Survey: Israel yet to grasp concept of democracy (tags)
The general conclusion of the survey, which is dubbed the "Israeli Democracy Survey" and will be conducted every year, is that Israel is basically a democracy in form more than in substance, and that it has yet to internalize fully the concept of democracy.
Proudhon and the Condemnation of the Charity (tags)
Proudhon and the Condemnation of the Charity
Canadians not approving of American policy (tags)
Canadians are showing significant signs that they want to move away from the direction taken by the states. This is a MacLeans magazine story, Dec 26, 2002
Social conflicts are always conflicts around terms and definitional power..Whoever has definitional power over what is reality and what is realpolitik dominates ideological semantics. Translated from the German
Proposal of netstrike de Isole nella Rete against the last detentions (tags)
The arrests of the political activists in South of Italy are really grave. It's urgent to give an strong and united response. Isole nella Rete is proposing a netstrike. Over the skin of the activists from the South is the future of all the political activism.
Transcending Single Issue and Reformists Politics at the Santa Clarita Treesit (tags)
A critique of leftist environmental tactics and rant against developer scum.
LAPD Capt. claims Hollywood is no Inglewood for Transgenders, Gays (tags)
An LA Police Capt. claims in an interview in a Gay/Trans paper that Hollywood cops are cool with queer folk, but some Transgender women recently told your author that the same precint refused to take their complaint of a street robbery, and others complained of vice harassment at their apartment. Read and comment.
stop the terror in israel
Teen Anarchist Back Online Despite FBI & Big ISPs (tags)
Teen Anarchist Back Online Despite FBI & Big ISPs By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 07 Mar 2002, 10:55 PM CST
GAG ORDER LIFTED; IMC IN FREE SPEECH BATTLE IN WAKE OF FBI /SECRET SERVICE VISIT (tags)
On the evening of Saturday, April 21, a day during which tens of thousands demonstrated against the FTAA in the streets of Quebec City, the Independent Media Center in Seattle was served with a sealed court order by two FBI agents and an agent of the US Secret Service. The terms of the sealed order prevented IMC volunteers from publicizing its terms; volunteers immediately began discussions with legal counsel to amend the order. This morning, April 27, Magistrate Judge Monica Benton issued an amended order, freeing us to discuss the situation without the threat of being held in contempt.
strret actions-and strategies (tags)