All people are reporters (tags)
What is missing in the mainstream media landscape are background reports, essays, longer interviews, travel reports and what is called "investigative journalism". What is perhaps boring are ideology-critical internal debates about the right line, i.e. hermetic, exclusionary language. Many people know that Marxian political economy is back in fashion. But it needs an update.
The Problem is Institutional Racism (tags)
Three hurdles make it difficult to talk about racism: the identity hurdle, the guilt hurdle and the renunciation hurdle. However, when I think back to the Welcoming time many years ago, I have to add a fourth hurdle: the imagination hurdle.
Housing is a human right (tags)
To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels - federal, state and local - the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests.
The red giant's plastic problem (tags)
A tattered Coca-Cola flag flutters on the beach of Ixia on Rhodes: every year, the beverage company produces more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles. Many of them end up in the sea...In a few years, there is likely to be more plastic swimming in the oceans than fish.
Corona crisis turns into social crisis and The Taboo in Glasgow (tags)
"We are about to drive the world to the wall at full speed." Glasgow creates only lukewarm symptom therapy The example shows that hardly anyone dares to seriously name and research the basic problems of economic growth and population growth.
The Collapsing American Millitary (tags)
Russia and China can be provoked into becoming military threats by Washington’s aggressive policies. When Washington identifies Russia and China as threats, Washington means that the rise of the two countries has ended Washington’s short-term unipolar rule.
Economic Crisis in the Anthropocene (tags)
They are in a life-and-death struggle for the future of American democracy and from their point of view – and I happen to share this view – that depends on their not losing the congressional majority to the GOP in 2022, which doesn’t necessarily end American democracy, but it takes us in a direction which is really bad.
Pathetric Medical Liars (tags)
Those people who keep saying it is the un-vaccinated who are the problem. Hey, I do not know of any unvaccinated people who have been tested. All that I know, do not believe this hype anyway. We asked 347 unvaccinated people if they had been tested, all answered no. Where are they getting these people from?
The Ethics & Language of Lockdown. How the intended solution became the problem (tags)
Long term restrictions like lockdowns are self-defeating...It was inevitable that, at some point, issues of intergenerational justice would be raised, given there is only so much you can ethically ask the majority of people to sacrifice to protect a small minority. Such unfairness is an under-appreciated ethical problem.
Debts are not a problem (tags)
The Democrats have learned from their mistakes. This time they want a big stimulus package to invest in infrastructure and climate protection. This change in sentiment is partly thanks to Keynesians like Paul Krugman, who have always called for government investment when the economy is paralyzed.
"We Gotta Get Out of this Place" (tags)
"Bourgeois theorists have always believed capitalism to be “everlasting” because, they claim, it is in accordance with “human nature.” For them, all crises are only cyclical and transient:" This interview is from www.exit-online.org, 2/23/2016
8 Years After Shutdown, Socal San Onofre Nuke Plant Still Causing Big Problems (tags)
The SoCal San Onofre nuke plant shut down in 2012, but it's still causing big problems.
Boys Club - Men Have All the Money (tags)
Male cartel.. They have all the money and power.
Work and Digitalization and A Corpse Governs Society (tags)
On the 2018 Day of Labor, many were worried. No one can deny digitalization affects work. Artificial intelligence greatly changes professions and whole branches. Well-paid jobs become scarcer. Rebuilding the social state seems necessary. Capitalism's blind flight through history is ending.
Police problem officers (tags)
Many California counties already give prosecutors at least some information on problem officers, as do a majority of the 50 states. But “Blue” California remains the only state that blocks prosecutors from seeing entire police personnel files. And that’s a disgrace.
The Problem of Illegal Immigrants in Israel and America (tags)
This article looks at the problems of illegal/legal immigrants in Israel and America. And also, describes the developing trends toward Globalist and Nationalist parties in Israel, America, and Europe.
PHILIPPINES - Akbayan slams Duterte's raid killings, threats vs. rights activists (tags)
Akbayan partylist condemns Duterte's public threat to shoot human rights groups. The threat comes at a time when Oplan Tokhang has reached its bloodiest and human rights groups are needed to watch over the government's operations.
Become a Solidarity Person (tags)
The majority of the world's population doesn't want to know anything about globalized neoliberal capitalism anymore. Many millions are dying in the consequences. The political institutions are extorted by financial elites and their media aids. The interests of big owners of capital dominate.
Transit Dependent Residents Need a Guaranteed Right to Stay (tags)
Transit developments are nice, but they ar part of gentrification, and push out the people who need the transit the most!
Worldview parties mutate to popular or catchall parties and gradually lost their clear profile and their voters. Citizens have long known something is rotten in the state. Politics first despised the trust of the population and then lost that trust.
Losing the drug war ... idiots (tags)
One of the reasons that you have lost the drug war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXQeFeLGHvM
Capitalism's growth problem (tags)
Contemporary capitalism has a big problem. And no one seems to be able to refute it. The problem, as Robert J. Gordon sees it, is that economic growth is slowing down, it has been for decades, and there’s no prospect for a resumption of fast economic growth in the foreseeable future.
What to do about a nation and its leaders who are on a one way trip to Hades!
Resistance to gentrification in San Francisco (tags)
Analysis from a long time opponent of what capitalism is doing to the city of San Francisco
Differing Views on China (tags)
China
A guide to California's water crisis-and why it's so hard to fix (tags)
"The underlying problem is bigger than almonds or golf courses"
Pacific Radio Discovers Audio Of Speech by Dr King To London Audience (tags)
Pacific Radio has discovered audio tape of a speech Dec 7 1964 Dr Martin Luther King gave in London days before his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize as the youngest recipient ever at that time. It is in audio at http://democracynow.org and in text at http://pacificradioarchives.org
The Rent is Too Damn Hight - and It Doesn't Have to Be (tags)
Housing as a human right is subverted by the right of speculation, wrote Arnold Kunzli, Swiss emeritus professor in 2003.
Joe Biden's Rhetorical Ineptness (tags)
Biden
The Shortwave Report 10/03/14 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan. China Radio International, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.
police training problem (tags)
A source of trouble
Drop the temperature 20 degrees, on the cheap.
let the desperate and the dead speak for America (tags)
Americans are mean
Technology, Unemployment and Policy Options (tags)
Navigating the Transition to a Better World
Three Things That Make Libertarian Heads Explode (tags)
The inequality problem, the public goods problem and the regulation problem make libertarian heads explode.
Our Triple Jobs Problem (tags)
First, even as unemployment has inched down, the economy has created barely enough jobs to match population growth. Second, this enormous labor-market “slack” has stifled workers’ bargaining power and kept wages low. Third, policies over 30 years have undermined workers
The Problem with Nonprofits (tags)
The problem with poverty driven nonprofits. If you use this video in a talk or a paper here how you source it: Fleming, Teka Lark. [Black & Tan Show]. (2013, December 30).Episode 2: Nonprofits [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/0ooMpd6f-nM Length: 3:37
‘End-game’ conspiracy or business as usual? (tags)
The problem isn’t greedy bankers, the problem is the system that enables the greedy bankers.
Fukushima: Uncontainable (tags)
ecocide
Each movement defines its own language, and OccupyTogether is no exception. The problem is, their definitions are more vague than the old definitions. Here are some suggestions.
Economic Ethics After the Crisis (tags)
Peter Ulrich is an emeritus professor of Economic Ethics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and author of Integrative Economic Ethics (2008). The economy should be embedded in society; society should not be embedded in the economy. The invisible hand is a myth to be unmasked.
The Shortwave Report 04/04/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, and Spanish National Radio.
Growth Euphoria and Distribution Reality (tags)
The chasm between poor and rich opens even more. The uncoupling of growth and quality of life on one side and productivity and work volumes on the other side make clear that "business-as-usual" leads to growing problems. German GDP grew 300% with 20% fewer workers.
Why Don't Politicians Care about the Working Class? (tags)
The national debt is not the most important problem to address. Reversing the polarization of the labor market is much more important.
Good Empire is Empire ended (tags)
There is victory in defeat.
Capitalism or private property is not the cause but the product, the result, the necessary consequence of alienated labor. No person needs 400 times his neighbor. They play even if it ruins them. It is high time for the left to pull the motivation plug.
The Generational Contract is not the Problem (tags)
The battle is between poor and rich, not young against old. In Germany, the political reforms of the past twelve years r4elieved the wealthy and employers. The top tax rate and corporation taxes were lowered. Then the low-wage sector was developed.
Ongoing Problem of Church Child Molestation at Unity (tags)
From California to Florida to Georgia, Unity officials are being caught molesting children.
Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution (tags)
The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good.
Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution (tags)
The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good.
Fake Peace Activists, Fake jews (tags)
Mr. Gabriel Matthew Schivone is one of the very few people in human history whose very name appears destined to become a description of a phenomenon, in this case the Schivone Jew. Previous examples of persons who have given their names to phenomena include Vidkun Quisling, the Earl of Sandwich, and only very few others. FringeGroups, Rise of the Schivone Jews
The Shortwave Report 10/28 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
Foreclosure Purgatory, MA Rules Against Buyer Of Foreclosed Home, Million Tainted (tags)
2011 Foreclosures is showing us what is coming on the horizon, ? Cloud on title?. (cloud) n. an actual or clear outstanding claim on the title to real property. ?Clouds? can include an old mortgage or deed of trust with no recording showing the secured debt was paid off, a failure to properly transfer all interests in the real property to a former owner, a previous deed which was improperly written or signed, an unresolved legal debt or levy by a creditor or a taxing authority, or some other doubtful link in the chain of title. Often the ?cloud? can be removed by a quiet title action, by finding a person to create or execute a document to prove a debt had been paid or corrected. Title companies will refuse to insure title to be transferred with a ?cloud,? or they will insure ownership except for (?insure around?) the ?cloud.
Occupy Riverside Official Launch October 15, 2011 (tags)
October 16, 2011
RIVERSIDE (California) - After an event-filled launch of the occupation of Riverside timed to coincide with Saturday's international day of action, just under 100 people of conscience successfully held the pedestrian walkway of the downtown mall, despite police threats of arrest for those determined to sleep in the public thoroughfare.
The Drug Problem Belongs to the Middle Class (tags)
This was written as a response to a post on yahoo answers. Since it can't be put up there, it's put up here. Just food for though.
USA WALK SLOWLY TO THE HOLE (tags)
Welcome to Americandammerung.
Prepping Minds for War Against China (tags)
You'd think the U.S. was already at war with China, given the immense amount of anti-China rhetoric spouting from the government and media. But selling wars takes time. The average American hasn't bought in to this false advertising yet. So the big lie will be repeated until its roots are deeply sunk into the American psyche: China, says the U.S. government, is a threat that needs to be "dealt with.” This propaganda assault is multi-faceted, taking aim from all directions. Any China-related issue -- military, economic, and social -- is open for attack. For example, the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, Robert Gates, recently visited Asia and focused much of his trip talking about China as a "military threat.”
Scientists Say We Need Power and Corruption (tags)
Without corruption law enforcement might not be as efficient some scientists say.
The Shortwave Report 12/17 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.
The Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe Challenge (tags)
I'll be the first to admit it - I don't like the Cabbage Soup Diet. But you, like a lot of people out there, are looking for a quick way to lose weight and you heard that this fad diet is the way to do it.
Growing Poverty in America (tags)
exponentially rising numbers
Gender-Based Violence in Haiti (tags)
One of many problems plaguing Haitians
A Global Ecological Argument for a Basic Income (tags)
Erik Christensen is an associate professor of economics in Denmark.
PLAN SANTA BARBARA: Is It Really Adapting In Today’s Fast Changing Environment? (tags)
Some Thoughts Regarding Item 8. For Agenda of August 10, 2010
Drug-Free Marshals are Creating a New Future (tags)
How often parents tell their children not to play with matches, talk to strangers or stay out late? In most cases, a parent’s fear is that such warnings will go unheeded.
THE SOLDIERS ARE THE PROBLEM (tags)
he Americans live in a state to the soldiers' service.
MHC LAUDS JUDGE’S DECISION TO SUSPEND KEY PARTS OF ARIZONA’S STATE BILL 1070 (tags)
The Migrant Heritage Commission, a Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization providing services to immigrants, yesterday lauded the decision of US District Judge Susan Bolton to temporarily suspend key parts of Arizona's State Bill 1070. MHC executive director and immigration lawyer Arnedo S. Valera said that Bolton's decision is a victory on the part of the community organizations and institutions who have lobbied against the bill saying that it is unconstitutional and the "wrong approach" to curb the burgeoning problem of illegal aliens in the US.
The Financial and Economic Crisis as a Normative Orientation Crisis (tags)
Prof. Ulrich presents three core theses: (1) Economics is not an end-in-itself but the means to the good life and human coexistence. (2) There is no "free" enterprise system free of ethical and political prerequisites. (3) The need for emancipatory economic citizenship rights.
The Shortwave Report 06/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
HERE IS ANOTHER ONE 2 BITE ON POOR AMERICANS ... (tags)
WE WILL CONTINUE DELIVERING MANY MORE DENTAL HEALTH ARTICLES FROM AROUND THE USA AND INTERNATIONAL WORLD UNTIL WE ARE ALL ASSURED VIA WASHINGTON DC THAT OUR POORER AMERICANS DENTAL NEEDS WILL BE COMPLETELY COVERED IN THIS PENDING HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION ....
~ AND NOW THEY WANT US POORER AMERICANS TO SMILE WITH NO TEETH IN OUR MOUTHS ~ (tags)
~ IT IS CONTINUING TO BE MORE DIIFICULT FOR OUR POORER AMERICANS TO SMILE NATIONWIDE ~ THIS OBVIOUS CONTINUED NEGLECT OF OUR U.S. CONGRESS TO DENY THE MASSES OF OUR POORER AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES PROPER DENTAL CARE NEEDS CHANGE....
Growing Homelessness in America (tags)
Washington's indifference to a growing problem
The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All (tags)
The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All
This is not a social state any more (tags)
Building community centers (as in Vancouver BC), redistributing income and assets from top to bottom, reducing working hours, expanding the public non-profit sector and accepting housing, education and health care as rights not privileges would be important steps to a bright future.
Education as Tranquilizer (tags)
"A false strategy of combating poverty results inevitably from a flawed analysis of the causes of poverty. Whoever culturalizes the problem relies on education reforms without repairing the structural causes.."
abusing Haitian children
Israel to be put back in its box at pre ’67 borders. (tags)
About time, too.
The False Hope of J Street and the Gentile Problem (tags)
commentary on a new strategy of Israeli Lobbyists
Comments from an Inmate (tags)
He says it's all nonsense. I won't tell the state he's in because my correspondents tend to suffer retribution for their letters.
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman and the "Homework Problem" (tags)
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman, founder of the Center for Family Development, shares some insights on a common problem: homework!
Obamacare Targets Entitlements (tags)
the plan is to make America Guatemala
If you find an electrocuted rat in your kitchen stove, odds are that your landlord has breached the implied warranty of habitability in your lease. What if he won’t fix the problem? What can you do?
Growing Poverty and Despair in America (tags)
what the dominant media won't tell you
There are solutions to the drug problem
Jerry Quickley fired from KPFK (tags)
Jerry Quickley fired from KPFK (tags)
Poet, Musician and Artist Jerry Quickley was FIRED FROM KPFK FOR SPEAKING OUT.
Capitalism's Crisis and our Response (tags)
Walden Bello delivered this speech at the Conference on the Global Criusis in Berlin, Marc h 20-21, 2009.
VIDEO: Lessons of the Great Depression (tags)
Output per worker, efficiency or productivity, increased 25% from 1923-1930 while wages only increased 4%. The first problem is that people can't afford what they produce. The second problem is that we've been consuming the planet
Toxic Plans for Toxic Assets (tags)
Obama stimulus from hell.
None Dare Call It Treason (tags)
Politicians backed by powerful business interests have initiated a legislative assault to bring nuclear power back to Oklahoma. There are numerous reasons why this is a bad idea, some of which are discussed in this article. Oklahomans successfully fought off the attempt to build a nuclear reactor at Black Fox a generation ago. We will fight it again.
Meth is an upper. It is used as (inappropriate) self - medication for depression. Problems don’t come about without cause. The methamphetamine problem didn’t drop out of the sky. There are biological and social causes of meth abuse and they need to be fully discussed by an informed citizenry. Here’s why.
The world today is undeniably chaotic — war, abject poverty, and unimaginable wealth exist side by side. In an attempt to explain the current social turmoil, some have resorted to religion and apocalypse, while others place the blame on the few bad apples that held positions of power as the economy slid into destitution. And then there are those who blame conspiracy, immigrants, or a society-wide lack of morality. All of the above explanations seem to be missing a crucial ingredient. A simple observation should be central to any explanation of the current economic crisis: There are huge surpluses (or overproduction) of houses, cars, food stuffs, and many other products that millions of people desperately need, but cannot afford to buy. This is the essence of the problem.
Israel has found the final solution to the Palestinian problem
Understanding the origin of public insecurity (tags)
* Article originally published in spanish language in El Libertario, Venezuela, # 54, September-October 2008, that analyzes and goes over the problem of criminal violence through its social impact on contemporary Venezuela.
The capitalist system does not make a mistake; it is the mistake. Capitalism is the problem. The solution would be an independent-socialist social order whose highest principles are mutual aid, respect for nature and a nonviolent rule-free humanly just world.
Welcome to Finance Market Capitalism (tags)
The financial market escapades must be the problem because capitalism itself cannot be the problem. The state bailout measure prepares the ground for inflationary developments.
Greed is the Nature of the System (tags)
Politics was corrupted byt he economy and lost control to the economy. In the private enterprise system, there are too many incentives that oppose the public interest. When company pensions end, workers speculate. When high profits are the norm, companies speculate.
Bush administration denies funding for FBI probe of mortgage mess (tags)
The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week.
Venezuela: National Security = Personal Insecurity (tags)
* This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.
"A Crime against Humanity" (tags)
When you fill the tank of an ethanol car with 50 liters, you burn over 700 pounds of corn. A Zambian child could live a whole year from that. More regulation instead of more market access is vital for developing countries. A rebellion of conscience is needed.
Clinton Campaign Appears Stalled (tags)
A short article about the Clinton, and Obama race.
No Middle East Peace Without Tough Love (tags)
It's great to finally see prominent voices addressing Zionist Extremism's rejection of peace, and their role in deliberately perpetuating their war. with the aim of destroying the chance of a Palestinians state. The shameful inaction of the International Community also features heavily, and a solution cannot be far off. Unfortunately, this has made these Extremists desperate, and their last-ditch effort to destroy Palestine threatens to be bloody.
Killings still major problem in Philippines--US report (tags)
- Extrajudicial and political killings, including those of journalists, by members of the military, police and other perpetrators continue to be a major problem in the Philippines, according to a report of the US Department of State. In its 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released in March this year, the US said that communist rebels and other terrorist groups also committed human rights violations against civilians. The report said that despite intensified efforts by the Philippine government to investigate and prosecute these cases, many went unsolved and unpunished.
Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial now acceptable on IM-UK (tags)
An Indymedia UK moderator disseminates antisemitic material and defends its holocaust-denying author.
Cheaper than Coal? More discussion of a phosphorescent solar cell (tags)
The following is a continuing discussion of the development of a solar cell based upon phosphorescence....
"Chaos is a Sign for the System's Fall" (tags)
Bush is an absolute disaster. Instead of withdrawing and adjusting to the changed geopolitical situation, he leaped suddenly into the abyss. Capitlaism is in crisis because endless capital accumulation can no longer be guaranteed to capitalists. Speculation reaps bitter fruits.
Daily Kos: CIA Engineered Controlled Opposition? (tags)
Ever wonder why you lost your posting privileges at Daily Kos after writing about the Israeli terror regime or how 9-11 was in part an inside job? This article will explain why.
the problem with veterans (tags)
Vets Are Expensive (And Well Trained)
God’s Warriors Veils that our World Religions Command Genocide (tags)
Our world religions explicitly forbid world peace and command and reward genocide with great rewards for mass murder in the world to come, but your mainstream media does not trust you to know this.
Philippines: On Mrs. Arroyo’s 7th State of the Nation Address (tags)
"Gloria's economy is not working." This is what the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) said of Mrs. Arroyo's flamboyant and rosy economic claims; two days shy from the Executive's 7th State of the Nation Address (SONA) this 23rd of July.
A Story from an ICE Detention Facility (tags)
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Anti-Immigrant in Black Face? (tags)
drive minutemen from l.a. - stop ted hayes leimert park rally 6/23
"We Have an Upper Class Problem" (tags)
The unconditional basic income is a revolutionary idea but can only be realized in an evolutionary way.. We have long been in a foreign-provision economy. No one can provide for himself.. The state should offer people a basic income so they can live a modest humane life.
* Philippine Government Apathetic Toward Human Rights Abuses * (tags)
UNITED Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston gave an oral report to the UN Human Rights Council yesterday of the preliminary findings and recommendations in connection with his 10-day visit to the country in February to investigate extrajudicial killings. In his report, Alston criticized key government agencies, particularly the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, the Ombudsman, the Department of Justice, and Malacañang for shirking their responsibilities in upholding human rights in the Philippines.
LA Mayor has cruel lack of vets (tags)
www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_5542600+
The paradigm defining conventional social science, history, economics, social psychology needs to be changed. This article sets out a few of the needed pieces
Former RP Defense Chief ; "Don’t tell us how to handle an insurgency’ (tags)
The Philippine lawmaker who was defense minister during martial law said Thursday that he had told a UN human rights investigator to keep out of Manila’s internal affairs. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile had harsh words for UN special rapporteur Philip Alston, who is probing the wave of hundreds of political murders that have taken place since President Arroyo took office in 2001.
Full Speed Against the Wind (tags)
"Whoever believes in continous growth in a finite world is either mad or an economist." (Kenneth E. Boulding)
Exploitation and Precarity (tags)
The exclusion processes are actually the result of radicalized capital exploitation strategies.. In the last two decades capital has learned that low-wage zones can be enforced when the collapse zones are intimidatingly present.
For anti Israeli activity
Now Bush is in shock and awe.
Metal In your Food, Metal In Your Drugs (tags)
Making the population more responsive to the radiant arsenal....
The solution to the problem cannot be curfews and terar gas.. Profit and power are set above social peace. Who is really responsible when the villa surrounded by barbed wire is charred one morning?
Today's Youth: Efficient, Harmonious and Creative (tags)
For 40% in England, neither career nor consumption are in first place in their desires but downshifting, exchanging a financially attractive but stress-filled career for a less streneous but more fulfilling way of life with less income.
UN officials fear unexploded ordnance problem could worsen with winter (tags)
Mr. Egeland today commended the Lebanese Government, public institutions and civil society for "a remarkably effective effort" to rebuild their country.
"The US is on the Wrong Path" (tags)
US foreign policy must obviously be redirected. At present the policy is to bridle the horse by the tail. A solution is only possible by solving the Palestinian problem.
Human trafficking in Israel a $ 1 billion industry (tags)
Israel the so-called "oasis of democracy and human rights" been cited by the United Nations and the US State Department was one of the worst offenders in this slave trade, a $ 1,000,000,000 dollar booming industry which contines to this day
Israel Sends in the Clowns: Debating the Lobby in Manhattan (tags)
The occasion was a "debate," hosted by the London Review of Books, on the question, "The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on US foreign policy?"
HOT INTEL: THE BOJINKA PHILIPPINES TREASON BOX (tags)
Bushfraud you have an Eva Telechi problem. Bushfraud you have a D.B. problem. Bushfraud you have a Manila Hotel, Philippines problem. Plus you have a Robert Wachtel-White Monkey problem.
Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees: (tags)
Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees: International Law and Humanitarian Considerations
'Private Police Force' to arrest "illegals." (tags)
LA CRESTA -- Fed up with what it says is a failure on the part of authorities to act on the area's illegal immigrant problem, a group purporting to be residents of the affluent, sprawling and isolated La Cresta, Tenaja and Santa Rosa communities is vowing to take matters into its own hands.
Doomsday Global Warming: Fact-Sheet / What To Do? (tags)
Tragic Climate Change is well underway and will worsen unto Doomsday if we do not take drastic measures to stop its progress. The development of clean, renewable and CHEAP Green Energy is indispensable. This has never been a difficult technical problem. The Problem is POLITICAL, necessitating a crucial political change -- Polluters' Power overridden by People's Power.
The Second American Revolution : Weirdos in High Places (tags)
When someone doesn't get their job done, under the capitalist system, the solution is to just fire them and then not give a damn
Government the Problem, Not the Solution (tags)
I never met an elected official that a bullet when fired from a rifle couldn't fix. Government is almost always the cause of our problems, not the solution to our problem.
Among the many shouts of warning from environmentalists about global catastrophes, ‘Peak Oil’ stands out as the newest and most imminent. The issue has gained special acceptance from different sections of the left, who have chosen it as their primary concern – aside from of course, defeating Bush. Peak Oil and other environmental issues, such as global warming, have created important political questions that need to be addressed; the following is an attempt to analyze the different political considerations that arise when one discusses the topic of Peak Oil.
The problem with the idea of “an immigration problem.” (tags)
Why so many different takes to "the immigration problem?" The answer lies in the oversimplification of the issue. I will not diagnose the source(s) of these over-simplistic notions, only attempt to clear up the mud.
"War-Mongerers Become Prisoners of Their Own Words" (tags)
The conclusion is that the peaceful use of nuclear energy must be ended..The core of the problem is that the nuclear powers refuse to meet their obligation to nuclear disarmament..A two-class international law is impossible.
Sorry about the missing photos. We ran out of some disk space and it caused the problem.
An Anarchist Commentary about Cuba (tags)
James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution.
The problem with Israel. (tags)
Its problems are becoming our problems.
Who Benefits from a New Division of the World? (tags)
We in the West should be more prepared than ever to respect the cultural identities of other people. We should strive to accept their ideas and demands on us..The problem of the West is understanding the mental consti-tution of the poor and humiliated.
General Michel Aoun to ‘Monday Morning’: (tags)
He has the gift of facilitating matters. With him formalities and ceremonial go by the board. The conversation is quickly under way with the “General” at his residence in Rabiyé, which was thronged with young people and retired Army officers who remain devoted to him. There, one found those who had remained faithful to him, who had waited patiently for 15 years for his return from exile. I saw myself propelled back 16 years to Baabda Palace, with the same images and sensations. But that was another time and place. The general himself seemed unchanged: as feisty as ever, the eternal resistance fighter. He has changed in one way, as he himself said: he has learned to be patient, to move slowly, which for him, unfortunately, is a waste of time. He has great aspirations for Lebanon, which still has much to learn in terms of democracy, human rights and the building of nations.
Secret Government is the Problem (tags)
This is a government that believes it knows what is best. It doesn't, but even if it did, we citizens, and our representatives in Congress, and the media we depend on, allow this kind of secret government to function at our peril.
Favela Rising: A Story of Self Actualization in a Marginalized Rio Community (tags)
Favela Rising, a documentary about a social movement in Rio favelas, won the IDA Best Feature this past week. The directors and community organizers hope to spread its message of self-actualization to marginalized communities in the United States, starting with Los Angeles.
The Real Problem with a Pandemic in the US (tags)
The collapse of public health care through decades of deliberate neglect in the U.S. makes the country as vulnerable to a flu pandemic as any bottom tier third world country, and it may be too late to do anything about that.
Let me begin by complimenting you on the site upgrades. I suspect johnk involvement. Nice. I, however, feel bad. :>(
"New networks arise that support people without locking them in a cage.. We need positive freedom, the freedom to something..For that we must create new institutions. We may not return to the old.."
Pacifica Radio Covers Tom Cruise, Scientology Cult (tags)
Pacifica Radio features three experts on the notorious Scientology cult.
The G8 and Africa's unreported famine conditions (tags)
To close off the final day of the G8 summit, a special report I was saving for the end, and perhaps take my cue from the media to spread some wild rumours and maybe scare some people. Behind the scenes at Live 8 and the G8.
Until we are willing to heal the deep emotional pain, inner conflicts and denial about them we sill see killing, war and destruction in the world around us.
Legal status of Guantanamo victimns (tags)
Another problem with the US treatment of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, is that most of them were captured and transferred to the camp from non-US soil. International laws regarding warfare would allow the US to do so, but only if the persons can be classified as prisoners of war. If they can not, the actions are kidnappings.
The dynamics of tyranny are the same the world over. People with power over people with none abuse that power through intimidation, violence, and coercion. It doesn’t matter if it is a teacher picking on her student when the door is closed or war. Same shit, different pile.
The Problem With Veterans (tags)
Vets Are Expensive (And Well Trained)
Antonio Villaraigosa has won the election, but can he fix all of our problems? Villaraigosa is indeed progressive, and is also a step in the correct direction.
A Clever Admission of Racism (tags)
Sometimes admissions of racism can be a healthy and open acceptance of responsibility for collective or individual sins of White privilege. Sometimes these admissions are cynical ploys aimed at normalizing racial abuse.
Thanks for your opinions, BA. Response here is re: Drug Prohibition (tags)
New York Times Up Bush Down? - (Getting It Wrong Again) (tags)
No Summary
The Social Security Distraction Game (tags)
Left, Right, Center - not the real solution, just a distraction so they can continue pushing their real agenda - imperialism.
Attny Gen. Spitzer Pulls the Pants Down on Mega-Corps (tags)
This speech was given by Mr. Spitzer at the National Press Club on 1/31/05
questions and suggestions relating to the LAPD murder of 13 year old
Health in Neoliberalism (tags)
A cost explosion has not occurred in legal health insurance in Germany. If there is a financial problem, it is the problem of inadequate revenues. Mass unemployment is the central cause of the rising health premiums.
The Web: New views on the 'digital divide' (tags)
This is a great story on the problems of the digital divide.
Our worst fears: Vote Tampering (tags)
By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created in the Diebold central tabulator, a program installed in 1,000 locations, which controls both paper ballots and touch-screens, each system handling up to a million votes at a time. Full story After invoking the 2-digit trigger, this second set of votes can be changed so that it no longer matches the correct set of votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. It is not too late to do so, and the corrective measures are relatively simple. This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments, and has been in place for four years.
WHEN AMERICA WENT STUPID OPEC (tags)
Dear OPEC. Apparently it started happening before I was born but circa 1977 was a major turning point, Iranian Independence was the issue and the public almost unanimously agreed that the US was a victim of a terribly unjust kidnapping and that our embassy personnel in Iran were completely innocent.
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Mankind's Unmentionable Secret (tags)
A family counselor told me that a family's 'real' problem is always the one that is unmentionable.
Oil policies running on empty (tags)
"People here seem to have an inexplicably difficult time coming to terms with the idea that they don't have infinite access to a finite resource. Well, now it's wake-up time. Again."
Animal Groups Wants Athens to Show Homeless Dogs Some Olympic Spirit
“Any nation that protects its citizens from their own folly will eventually become a nation of fools.”
Forget the drama of next month's Olympics - the real Greek tragedy is the nation's appalling record on the welfare of animals, says Justine Hankins
If you think 'free-will' is real, you are the problem. (tags)
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Why Vote for Ralph Nader? (tags)
Matt Gonzalez blames the Democrats for a spoiler problem and argues for the Nader/Camejo campaign.
To spoil or not to spoil in '04? (tags)
"It's decision time for those of us inhabiting that lonely corner of the Nolan Chart where dope and porn elicit almost as much enthusiasm as capital gains tax cuts."
South Korea, Terror of the Construction Mafia (tags)
But inhabitants of a residential area in Ilsan are fighting back!
Is China weeks away from 'Great Depression'? (tags)
Already in need of a $45 billion bailout, the CBRC suspended all lending for three days. The enormity of China's banking problem is dawning on everyone--the system is nearing meltdown.
March 20 Anti-Capitalist Contingent (tags)
12 noon, Hollywood & Vine: Look for Black Flags and Banners 2:30: Anarcho-Communist meeting after march at park at Franklin and La Brea.
Join the March 20th Anti-Capitalist Contingent (tags)
To Abolish War, We must Abolish Capitalism!
A century of What to do? of Lenin: A critical defense at the light of the Argentinazo (tags)
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Call for a March 20th Anti-Capitalist Contingent (tags)
On March 20th, retake activism in LA! Prove that our rage over this unjust war and occupation will not be confined to permitted marches facilitated by bureaucracies that stifle real efforts towards building another world.
HOMELESS ATTACKED IN FRESNO (tags)
This is the story of how and why homeless encampments were removed in Fresno California.
Itamar Marcus: A Man with a critical message, just left Southern California.
Commercia media, like Ashcroft when he draped the Justice Department statues, goes berserk at the sight of a woman's breast but is silent about killing machines featured at a sports event.
A new low in drug testing (tags)
The government is apparently planning to install face-scanning cameras and urinalysis machines in some public urinals. It sounds strange, but it's technically feasible. We need to spread the word about this so it doesn't become widespread.
Mad Cow and the Crisis in Food Production (tags)
Mad Cow
Insider's secrets of the mass media (tags)
These memo's show how the mass media really works, how badly the war is really going and how the public is lied to and manipulated by what's not reported
Landmines: Palestine's hidden danger (tags)
All over Gaza, large well-illustrated billboards sporting the UNICEF logo can be seen alongside major streets and busy intersections.
Drug Shoppers to be tracked by database (tags)
Rush Limbaugh isn't the only doctor shopper -- a Florida truck driver (political affiliation not given) was arrested for drug shopping in December. It's a problem so pervasive that the state legislature is considering a multi-million dollar prescription tracking database.
Clearly, Palestinians are suffering, and their situation must be remedied — the sooner the better. The question is, who was responsible for creating their situation and who is accountable for remedying it?
Maravilla Death and 9/11 (tags)
Like so many before him and those that never know who is next, I want to blame someone, something, for their murder.
This article is written in lieu of Congress passing and Bush signing into law the bill that outlaws partial-birth abortion. Plenty of things to be said.
What will Rush say then? (tags)
Rush didn't check into the nearest state penitentiary -- no, the $25 million man checked himself into rehab. While he may have known what was good for everyone else addicted to drugs, when it came to his own problem he sure didn't practice what he preached.
The Elusive and Endangered Female Libertarian (tags)
"If my observations are correct, and the reasons that there are so few female libertarians are reasons that may be hard to overcome, the next step is to decide how much of a problem this is."
I realize that the big story of the day is that the Siegfried and Roy act is on indefinite hold, but I thought I'd chance a few words about the erection. I mean, election. Sorry, I've got Schwarzenegger on the brain---but not in the way you might think. Sex is not the problem here. It's certainly not Arnold's problem, as he obviously has enjoyed lots and lots of sex with lots and lots of women, and probably still does. Collie-fawnia, heah I come! The Sperminator!
Take this quiz. Find out whether you have your head screwed on straight or not.
Public health as a public good (tags)
Infectious diseases, though they manifest themselves in individuals, really are a public issue. We are no healthier than the health of our community, which itself has an ever-increasing scope.
National Security Protection Scheme against State violation from an other State (tags)
This article reveals an untested State security protection theory.
Turn the Struggle Into a Complete Victory (tags)
--The fundamental problem (as I see it) is that there are thousands of people out there yearning for change, but who lack the resources and information to make it happen--Jeanette Wallis, The Walk for Democracy
Schwarzenegger's Nazi Problem: why won't he repudiate Kurt Waldheim? (tags)
Here's a question Jay Leno forgot to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger when he announced his candidacy for governor of California on last night's Tonight Show: "Will you renounce your support for Kurt Waldheim?"
about the way our IMC sites work.... (tags)
do you have any of the same problems / ideas for solutions at your IMC? what can we do as concerned communities to implement much needed changes without becoming part of the problem?
Liberty: Solutions--Solving the tenacious problem of homelessness (tags)
Libertarians have SOLVED homelessness! Just eliminate all zoning laws, land-use regulations, growth-control measures, and building codes that increse housing costs -- but don't be surprised when your matchstick house collapses in an earthquake or becomes poisoned by the chemical factory next-door -- "Live and let live"
Gov. Dean's Police State of Vermont (tags)
Dean's subversion of the bill of rights
Free-Market Capitalism and Ecological Disaster (tags)
The Free-Market libertarian argues that business leaders see and understand the effects of long-term environmental damage. But business leaders concentrate on short term profits, thus the planet continues its free-fall toward ecological disaster.
Palestinian Leadership is the problem (tags)
Palestinian leadership is the problem
A minority view: the problem with liberals (tags)
The problem lies in the inherent mind-set of any organization as liberal as The Times. For minorities, this produces what I call paternalistic condescension: paternalistic because the liberal feels that only he knows what is good for the minorities, since the minorities cannot take care of themselves; and condescension because he feels good by lowering himself to help those he feels are below him.
Solving the tenacious problem of homelessness (tags)
The Libertarian Party thinks it has the answer the homeless are in dire need of: elimination of all zoning laws, land-use regulations, growth-control measures, building codes, and rent control laws.
Pro-Active vs. Reactionary (tags)
When mainstream media misses the point
Immigrants Are A Godsend. (tags)
from the book "Why Businessmen Need Philosoph" by Ayn Rand.
Drug Abuse, Left Alone, is a Self-limiting Problem. (tags)
From the book "The Origin of Social Dysfunction" by E. Allie.
Drug Abuse, Left Alone, is a Self-Limiting Problem. (tags)
From the book "The Origin of Social Dysfunction" by E. Allie.
"I have no problem with people protesting US government initiatives, resisting US junk culture, and doubting US claims to be nothing but a force for good and right everywhere;I have a big problem with people pretending to be untainted by US pluralism..
Unanswered questions for Diogenes (tags)
C'mon soothsayer. You always seem to vanish when any questions come up.
Ignoring history
So the Iraq is an problem, France is a problem, Germany is a problem.
Hypocrisy that underlies HIPC (tags)
Vultures at the IMF/World Bank use accounting tricks to starve and further impoverish the poor.
Dictator Watch Manifesto (tags)
Now, or never?
PEACE IS PATRIOTIC, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM (tags)
PEACE IS PATRIOTIC, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM: an anarchist perspective
Does UK Cabinet master bating cause political damage (tags)
BBC World News revealed one of the UK cabinets’ major problems; cabinet level master bates.
Ritt Goldstein broke the stories on TIPS and the Administration's internment camps. Here's some background regarding him and an easy way to find more.
A New Olympic Event - Torture (tags)
As the 2004 Olympics approaches, animal torture in Greece is reaching ever higher levels.
Raise the Fist mysteriously down (tags)
Many people have been calling, talking, and asking questions as of why raisethefist.com is not accessable...
The Bush Cabal: Turning the USA into a Banana Republic (tags)
The Bush Cabal: Turning the USA into a Banana Republic
An honest look at the drug problem in America. Not only is the problem drug addiction and the devastating effects addiction has on millions of Americans but a honest look at how we are dealing with it.
"killing people is the problem, not the solution" [anti-war rally/march] (tags)
"killing people is the problem, not the solution"
PUSTULES ON PLANET EARTH (tags)
Maybe social problems are not important enough to our politicians. Maybe it's better to choose the expensive way...(!?)
BBC : 60 nations on US target list (tags)
just up on BBC site
Genetically moggified answer to cat problem (tags)
A biotechnology company in the US is working on producing a genetically altered, allergen-free cat.
Waterscooters and Muscleboats - our noisy enemies (tags)
What a noisy place our earth is today.
Wrapping Up the Election -- From Red Rock Eater News Service (tags)
An aristocrat who is related to five kings, W. has inherited his office without the trouble of counting the votes. It's nice that George has finally found something that he wants to do, but it's a real problem for the rest of us. We are compelled to face the problem of living in a country without a legitimate government. What do we do? Do we break laws? Do we burn things down?
Ted Hayes Conducts Downtown Tour in Preparation for Homeless Convention (tags)
Details Ted Hayes' efforts to contrast the ostentatious display of the DNC to the poorer areas of the city. Hayes' also organized a Dome Village for transitional housing and talks about the institutional origins of poverty.
Corporate Media is Corrupt Media (tags)
Corporate Media supports murder. Is this good when it serves our interests or the interests of our buddies in organized cirme?