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The intellectual dead end of liberalism

Enviado por Anonymous el Mié, 06/12/2013 - 4:13pm.

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Manarchists and Accountability In The Movement

Enviado por Anonymous el Lun, 06/10/2013 - 11:35pm.

 

This is making the rounds. Rob los Ricos is STILL sending a clear message as to why no one can take him seriously as an anarchist theorist. Or as anything else!

 

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Syria’s Fake Sectarian War

Enviado por Anonymous el Dom, 06/09/2013 - 8:31am.

The fate of Syria and the broader Middle East balances on a razor’s edge. The western media is giving dire warnings of an impending sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims, a war that could drown the Middle East in a flood of blood.

Such a war would be completely artificial, and is being manufactured for geo-political reasons. When the most influential Sunni figures in Saudi Arabia and Qatar — both U.S. allies — recently called for Jihad against the Syrian government and Hezbollah, their obvious intensions were to boost the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia and its closest ally, the United States, by destroying Iran’s key ally in the region.

History, subordination weighs heavily on unfinished Arab Spring

Enviado por Anonymous el Jue, 06/06/2013 - 4:56pm.


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Quantitative Crisis: Bernanke’s “Stimulus” For The 1%

Enviado por Anonymous el Sáb, 06/01/2013 - 2:35am.

When I heard that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress last week that it was too soon for the Fed to end its extraordinary stimulus programs, I did a double take.

“What stimulus programs?” I thought. Where are the jobs programs? Where are the “extraordinary” social services that will enable those still suffering from the effects of the Great Recession to buy more and stimulate the economy?

What escaped my attention for a moment was the fact that these words were uttered by an official steeped in the jargon of high finance and political policy — where words like “stimulus” are treated to Orwellian twists, their meaning transformed into something very different from what most people understand them to mean.

Bernanke’s “Stimulus”

What Bernanke meant by “stimulus” was not programs that economically strengthen the 99%. He was referring to policies that keep interest rates low, including what is known as Quantitative Easing (QE).

Hints of official Trans-Pacific Partnership resistance

Enviado por Anonymous el Mié, 05/29/2013 - 4:26pm.

A shroud of secrecy, by design, continues to envelop the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. The latest statements from participating governments as usual offer nothing of substance, but that rebellion might be afoot is intimated in an article by Chile’s former chief TPP negotiator, who recently resigned his posts.

The article, published in the Peruvian magazine Caretas, did not contain any thundering denunciations; expecting such from someone who had been the director of Multilateral and Bilateral Economic Affairs for the Chilean Foreign Ministry would not be realistic. The ex-director, Rodrigo Contreras, quietly resigned recently without a public statement, but he did summarize his thinking in the Caretas article.

How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows

Enviado por Anonymous el Mar, 05/28/2013 - 8:50am.

For a president that is executing Bush’s “war on terror” against Al-Qaeda and “its affiliates,” it seems odd that President Obama has targeted the secular Syrian government for “regime change.”

Equally odd is that Obama’s strongest military ally on the ground in Syria — the best equipped and effective fighting force against the Syrian Government — is Jabhat al-Nusra, a group that has affiliated itself with al-Qaeda, and aims to turn Syria into an extremist Islamic state that enforces a fundamentalist version of Sharia law.

Global-warming debate shouldn’t exclude role of livestock

Enviado por Anonymous el Mié, 05/22/2013 - 12:48pm.

The struggle to halt global warming ordinarily focuses on fossil fuel consumption and use, currently exemplified by the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. It would be foolish to disregard that, but what if the rapidly expanding livestock industry has been overlooked as a major contributor to global warming?

A paper published in World Watch that provides a strong argument that animal agriculture is significantly undercounted as a contributor to global warming. What makes this study interesting is that, in contrast to unsupported claims about methane sometimes made by vegan and animal-rights activists, it grounds its arguments squarely on carbon dioxide.

Debt jubilee: Revolutionary change or reform to stabilize capitalism?

Enviado por Anonymous el Mié, 05/15/2013 - 4:55pm.

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Syria Endgame Approaching Fast

Enviado por Anonymous el Mié, 05/15/2013 - 3:59am.

The tempo of events in Syria has increased in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a number of responses from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies: a mixture of war provocations and peace offers.

With Obama’s blessing Israel fighter jets recently attacked Syria on three separate occasions; in one massive air strike on a military installation in Damascus 42 Syrian soldiers were killed. Soon after Obama finally agreed to a peace conference with Russia, which had been asking for such talks for months.

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