What separates leftists sipping coffee under the mural of a murderer in Oakland from those marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville? Both are convinced that they are doing the right thing and neither has any intention of honestly examining their own beliefs.
Our Beautiful New Clothes (tags)
Neoliberalism seems to create "clothes no one can see" when it mystifies the market and competition and uses the austerity-model, the location-model and the adjustment-imperative or extortion to turn economics into nature.
"KPFK has a $500,000 deficit “ !! Can this be true? (tags)
What we dont know that affects the organizations we pay $$$ to support ! ? And no one is talking, to KPFK listeners/ sponsors/ stakeholders. And also some of Alan Watts' words are included here too.
killer cops
Zimmerman: Not Guilty of Cold-Blooded Murder (tags)
murder
When Theory and Reality Diverge (tags)
Politics forces crises and prevents their ending every day by holding to its ideological blinders. The state is not a private household and spending cuts always strike back on other actors of the economy. When theory and reality diverge, the theory is wrong, not the reality.
Uncovering the Fracture of the System (tags)
Uncovering the fracture and the dislocations of this system, proposing changes and actively interfering is the optimistic side. The collective repression of problems is carried out to a spectacular extent. The welfare state and democracy cannot be separated.
When Financial Management Paralyzes Democracy (tags)
The 2010 Attac Bank Tribunal in Berlin was a civil society legal proceeding that decried the speculative business model: take excessive risks and burden taxpayers with the costs. Rating agencies should be public. Banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist and should be broken up
Non violent reaction to violent police/fbi raids (tags)
Non violent reaction to unlawful police/fbi violent attacks is urged
Who Are You Working For? (tags)
Beginning with the campaigns for the 2008 elections political activism has hit peaks the likes of which haven’t been this consistent for decades. From all over the spectrum people are energized for causes close to their hearts. In doing so most end up selecting people they believe in to support for candidates in elections. Some of those candidates are sincere in their causes. We know not to expect perfect people nor every promise made kept, but we should count on some of promises, especially major ones, checked off.
The Military: A Training Ground for Domestic Abuse and Gang Violence (tags)
When the military utilizes torture tactics, the atrocities rarely only affect the people the military desires to torture. Those torture tactics are used on families and communities and are passed down from military personnel to their children and possibly their grandchildren and beyond.
Genocide and Official Plans to Murder Kevin Cooper, Mumia Abu Jamal and Troy Davis (tags)
Three innocent black men are about to die but those involved in the process have the right and duty to stop the executions
BRAZIL GIVES PRIZE TO DEFENDER OF TORTURING (tags)
Chronicle of a country that doesn't punish torturing and that it presses their defenders.
ONE CHEERS SEPTEMBER 11 (tags)
When the Americans lament many give laughter... with reason.
The Crisis in the Crisis or How Sick is the System (tags)
Crisis is a synonym for experiences of difference. It changes something. Afterwards nothing will be as in the past. Until recently the "manager" and "business" were models for all areas of life. Do private vices always become public virtues?
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Time for DISSENT is Now,=. Dont let OUR govt try to shut us up or out. (tags)
Why is Congress not receiving calls and emails suddenly ? Does OUR govt not have enough funds for a decent size computer or telephone service ? Could it be that it is 'closed' so as not to hear what we HAVE TO SAY LOUDLY ? "We dont want that bill passed to bail out financial & investment corps"....is it not shouted out loud and clear enough? by so many, in blogs, commentaries, and over many personal daily conversation.....
The Battle Of The River (tags)
A Fiction
When Will Media Recognize McCain's Serious Dementia Problem (tags)
McCain's dementia is obvious. When will our media, mainsteam or otherwise, recognize it?
NaninhaH, do sertão da macaxeira! (tags)
First insight A reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. We experience mysterious coincidences which show us that there is another side of life we have yet to discover--some other process operating
Faith and Bonhoeffer's distinction of faith and religion can keep us from despair. The human handshake can be a metaphor of God's strong hand. God keeps us from falling, not from stumbling. Parallel, plural worlds exist beyond fault-finding and fear-mongering.
Dont Be Net Neanderthals! (tags)
The world that you see is an interpretation product of your intelligence. The time of stinking steel-and-oil machines is over. Rejoice, the net will be your car, airplane and spaceship!
"We Believe, We Are What We Buy": Identity-Shopping (tags)
Happy Earth Day! That doesn't mean buy a Toyota Prius! Buying a Prius can be a substitute for sparing the environment. While capitalism, consumerism and commerce arenot evil, life is denatured when commerce is everything.
Eric McDavid Court Report, Day 7 (Sept. 24) (tags)
Court report from day 7 of trial
Live Earth
When Market Journalism Invades the World (tags)
When one listens to the mass media, modernity is equated with free trade, strong currencies, deregulation and privatizations. Outdated notions are associated with the welfare state, govt in general, unions, the nation state and the people.
Occupation Project Meets Heavy Congressional Resistance (tags)
The Reich Gains a Judge--Mark Mandio Appointed to the Bench (tags)
Following his cover-up of an attempted murder, Assistant District Attorney Mark Mandio is awarded by an appointment as Judge in Riverside Superior Court.
Of the cure through “ungidos” antibiotics
the suicide assassin fancies himself as a victim and as almighty because he knows God is on his side..Interdisciplinary non-political groups could develop common strategies for countering regression.
On a fact happened in a Brazilian province.
Meso-Americanos: It's way overdue (tags)
DoD Directive 1334.1, "Wearing of the Uniform", 05/17/2004 (tags)
I was not aware that the US Navy authorized wearing of uniform to a public demonstration.
when the government owns the media who willtellthe truth? this of COURSE includes socialist international government, famed for totalitarianism. or: why not too many people take indymedia seriosuly
"We Refuse to be Buried by Globalization" (tags)
"The theory of the end of work is nonsense. It is part of an ideology. We are not in a crisis but in a process of change in which the whole labor force is no longer needed.. Our problem is that we stubbornly cling to an old concept of work.."
Democracy behind Tank Barricades (tags)
For Washington the elections in Iraq are a milestone on the way to freedom but for Iraqis they are another step into civil war.. Almost nothing has the same meaning for Iraqis and Americans..There is hardly a com-mon interest between liberator & liberated.
A personal story of an extermination under the Bush administration
FREE FAHRENHEIT 9/11 MOVIE SCREENING @ SADDLEBACK COLLEGE! (tags)
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Beyond the laughter and tears, I the provider of my kingdom, The nurture of my seeds, The incubation of an injustice that man set forth for me. My daughters and sons follow after my pain.
Building Bridges Radio - Unemployment and Contract Workers in Iraq, Israel and Palestine (tags)
BUILDING BRIDGES; YOUR COMMUNITY AND LABOR REPORT PRESENTS THIS 28 MINUTES RADIO PROGRAM. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK
Support Grocery Workers Strike! (tags)
When you support the striking workers, don't go to anti-union stores to do it!
American Satyricon - The Perverting Of Reality (tags)
True, there has been some tongue-wagging about how America dropped its radioactive torture on Afghanistan and Iraq after telling whoppers of lies that never would have gone unchallenged in an eighth-grade debate class, but nevertheless managed to hold spellbound the entire American populace while these evil massacres took place.
Overtime at Headquarters: Ray McGovern on CIA Manipulation (tags)
"Congress was deceived with the warning that Saddam Hussein would soon possess nuclear weapons. People shouldn't wait until a mushroom cloud provided the proof. In this atmosphere, representatives renounced on their constitutional rights."Trans from German
This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=terkel
Things I've Learned or Concluded In The Last Couple Of Years (tags)
When we're afraid, its OK if our leaders are delusional as long as they really believe in their delusions and state them strongly.
Metaphysical Didactical Armor with Biblical-Analogy basis presented in Anarchistic format (tags)
If I were to tell you a story which held up in many instances and proved useful, while not hindering your efforts at leading a normal sane life... why would you mind? Here is a thought that occurred to me, the latest in my internal discource on Lucifer, Satan, God, Jesus, the fall of man, all that good stuff. I am an bona-fide anarchist, so my sources and assumtions follow that bent--there are law, rules and common sense, but no authority outside of those things. (Laws but no ordained rulers. That kinda thing.) ...enough said here, read on!
Questions of Life and Death (tags)
"Many politicians lack a moral imperative today. They act as though they have no options because the economy dictates conditions. This is not true. Politicians can still make decisions in the interests of many, not in the interests of a few.." From German
William Mandel, American Dissident (tags)
"If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any manner whatsoever, you are insane!" From William Mandel’s 1960 testimony before HUAC
When will there be time to grieve? (Poetry against the War) (tags)
Poetry against the War and for the Peace...
IOF Outrages Continue in Nablus, Palestine-Activist Reports (tags)
The Latest ISM Activist Reports
Seems so long ago. . .
T.N.B.C. 2002
PROTEST THE PATRIOT ACT! APRIL 6TH! (tags)
FIGHT STATE REPRESSION! NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST!
When are we going to ........
I am the average American... (tags)
I am the average American...
America: The Good Neighbor. (tags)
This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing.
JIVE SOWETO: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BEAT OF SOWETO Vol. 4 (tags)
We played some of this a few years ago on 88.5 WRAS FM Georgia State University The Voice of Atlanta's Concrete Campus with 24,000 Students.
Peacefully Protesting BIO? Expect Harassment (tags)
With the teach-in placid, the march pacific and no one wreaking any havoc, the San Diego Police Department have resorted to petty persecution.
Labor is hereby notified that the carnival has ended and the class struggle has begun. 50 years of cooperation with the capitalist class is 50 years too long. The workingclass cannot endure this destruction of our future.