Saturday, January 30, 2010

Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias

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from P2P Foundation blog.

Take Back Your Education

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by John Taylor Gatto from Yes! website. Not a recent article, but recently posted on their website.

The revolving doors of business and government

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from In Defense of Marxism website based in Britain. British socialists certainly have no illusions about how power is exercised in their ca...

'Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it'

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from The Guardian website. [referring to an FDR speech that was never broadcast] It is hard to imagine any circumstances in which Obama cou...

The Audacity of Populism

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from the Wall Street Journal website. The ruling class certainly does not suffer from any illusions about Obama as is clear from this articl...

Where Can I Get Mine?

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borrowed from Naked Capitalism blog.

Allies okay road map out of Afghanistan

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from The Star website in Toronto. The Canadian paper is treating the NATO-Afgan war's end as if it were a done deal--more so than any ot...

To gasps from the gallery, Blair said we should be proud of the war

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from The Independent. Britain's number one war criminal defends his actions.

Robert Fisk: Why does the US turn a blind eye to Israeli bulldozers?

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from The Independent.

Zelaya leaves Honduras for exile

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from Al Jazeera website. A sad ending to another attempt by a Latin American country to assert its independence from The Empire.

China retaliates over US arms sales to Taiwan

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From The Guardian website. Arms sales are the biggest US export. How do the Chinese authorities expect the US to buy their products--by borr...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Haiti's Classquake

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from Upside Down World website. Sorry that I missed this excellent article from last week. It gives the neo-liberal context missing from mai...

World War As Class War

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by James Heartfield from Mute magazine's website. This is a must-read account of the terrible effects, aside from military casualties, o...

Our Addiction to Disaster Porn

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by David Sarota from creators.com website. Of course, he is writing about the US ruling class's take on disasters and its avoidance of a...

The kidnapping of Haiti

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by John Pilger from his blog. In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the "swift and crude" appropriati...

[US] Terror comes at night in Afghanistan

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from Asia Times website. Read how the US is "winning the hearts and minds" of the Afghan people.

Obama Hypocrisy Watch: Obama Rips Lobbyists, Then Gives Them Private Briefings

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by Yves Smith at her Naked Capitalism blog.

Radical Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

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from Alter Net website. I notice that the article fails to mention any adverse affects of inequality on the health of the governing class. I...

Swiss halt deal with U.S. that IDs Americans with secret UBS bank accounts

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from the Washington Post. I can hear the sighs of relief across the US among the ruling class at this bit of news. Actually I doubt that man...

Police and Protestors

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from Resurgence website based in Britain. The article looks at the tactics of intimidation used by the ruling class's legal system and t...