March 2012
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February 2012
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If u read abt other ppls struggle & think ‘thank god that’s not me!’ u missed the point. it IS u, it is yr struggle. #solidarity #Hungry4BH
— miaonamous (@miaonamous) February 25, 2012
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susie-c:
A preview of my new and rather long...
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Chicago's 1 percent get ready →
“The stripping of civil liberties to serve the political interests of those in power is disconcerting. But what is more troublesome is the narrative that is being propagated by those in City Hall, through the media, to shroud these attacks on the public in a veil of talk about protecting the public.”
“There will indeed be an ominous ‘rare breed’ coming to...
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Bradley Manning defers plea after being formally... →
Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of spilling a massive trove of military secrets to Wikileaks, was formally charged with “aiding the enemy” at the first day of his court martial on Thursday.
Manning deferred a plea to all 22 charges against him and a decision over whether he wanted a military judge or a panel to hear his case.
Wearing dress greens and heavy, dark-rimmed...
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cc @YourAnonNews | via @occupySYDNEY MT @NathanHarding The United Nations Threat To Internet Freedom vsb.li/gnoCV0 #openinternet #ows
— K (@Korgasm_) February 23, 2012
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#EU suspends #ACTA! Court to rule on #anti-piracy #agreement bit.ly/yLWb3i @OpGreece @OpGreece_ @anonopshispano @WhitePageMx
— Knowledge 4 Truth (@TruthofToday) February 22, 2012
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#Monsanto Files Patent For New Invention: The Pig →
anonymissexpress:
It’s official. #Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world’s food supply, the dangers of genetic engineering and reduced biodiversity notwithstanding, as they pig-headedly set about hog-tying farmers with their monopoly plans. We’ve discovered chilling new evidence of this in recent patents that seek to establish ownership rights over pigs and their offspring.
More on...
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
Dear #Occupy, #Tempcheck : Are we ready to make #NoWarWithIran a top priority? @OccupyOakland @occupy_harvard @BootsRiley @99Prcnt @Timcast
— Dennis Trainor, Jr (@dennistrainorjr) February 22, 2012
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America Was Founded as a Protectionist Nation →
Contemporary American politics is conducted in the shadow of historical myths that inform our present-day choices. Unfortunately, these myths sometimes lead us terribly astray. Case in point is the popular idea that America’s economic tradition has been economic liberty, laissez faire, and wide-open cowboy capitalism. This notion sounds obvious, and it fits the image of this country held by both...
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from dusk till dawn: truedemocracy: Palestinian... →
truedemocracy:
Palestinian activist Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike following his arrest by Israeli forces on December 17, 2011. He has gone 66 days without food to protest Israel’s use of administrative detention, wherein prisoners are held indefinitely without charge or trial. Khader Adnan is one of 309 Palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in administrative detention by...
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Tell Walmart: Don't sell Monsanto's potentially... →
leftish:
This spring, Monsanto’s GMO sweet corn — their first product for direct human consumption — will be getting planted for the first time.
Then it will be sold, unlabeled, in a grocery store near you.
What would it take to stop it? It would take the largest food retailer in the country rejecting Monsanto’s untested, potentially toxic corn.
Tell Walmart: Don’t carry Monsanto’s GMO Sweet...
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Link: This Is What I'm Talking About: Non-Violent... →
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Anonymous asked: Tar Sands →
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mashkwi:
Anonymous asked: You say you hate tar and oil sands in alberta, but thats gets a crap load of money for Canada which makes your Country better. Also it’s been investigated like 10 times and people make a fuss about how horrible it is only to find out it’s not that bad.
You can see the Tar Sands spreading like a Cancer from Space. It is VERY...
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BDS: Power of the people at work
intrepidreport:
By Ramzy Baroud Posted on February 17, 2012
The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its own action (or lack of). The issue is not exactly about Israeli products either, but rather about how even a seemingly innocent decision like buying Israeli dates may enable the continued subjugation...
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Petition of the day: TELL GENERAL MOTORS: STOP... →
climateadaptation:
GM donates money to the Heartland Institute, which was just caught financing climate deniers. Sign this petition to tell GM to stop funding deniers.
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Do you hear the steady drumbeat of war with Iran? →
think-progress:
Rep. Keith Ellison (R-MN) does, and asks lawmakers to sign onto a letter urging the president not to start war with Iran.
If you listen to the rhetoric around Washington and the Nation, Mr. Speaker, it is literally impossible to not hear the drumbeat of war with Iran. The rhetoric in Washington about the military strike against Iran leads me to think that we may be sliding into...
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Capitalism, the infernal machine
Aaron Leonard: You write, "Capital is not a book about politics, and not even a book about labour: it is a book about unemployment." Could you talk about why you think that is true?
Frederic Jameson: I know this is probably surprising for people who always think of Marx in political terms, but there is really very little mention of any political action in Capital. There is certainly the implication of the kind of society that could come out of capitalism and also of the contradictions that could lead to the end of capitalism and I am not saying that Marx was not political or didn't constantly think of political strategies, but Capital is not a book about that. It is a book about this infernal machine that is capitalism.
It is a book about unemployment in the sense that the absolute general law of capitalism, as he enunciates it, is to increase productivity -- as a result, as he writes, "The relative mass of the industrial reserve army [the unemployed] increases therefore with the potential energy of wealth." I think this corresponds very much to what is happening in the present. I heard the most revealing thing recently from a venture capitalist, obviously annoyed by the constant talk of both Republicans and Democrats about supporting business so it can ‘create jobs.'
He said look, "Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, I wanted to increase my payroll because I think it's good for the American economy." This is a pretty direct way of saying business does not exist to create jobs; it is there to make money. That is exactly what Marx lays out in Capital. There is no direct connection between productivity and creating jobs.
This was not so clear as long as Keynesian economics were being applied in certain countries -- Keynes understood there had to be workers with enough money to buy all these goods being produced. Since Reagan and Thatcher, however, we get something more like the fundamental logic of capital Marx described. It is not just job flight to other countries; this is part of a worldwide process.
You want to bring factories back to the United States but on the other hand you want them to be productive? Well that means more and more automation and less and less workers, it is obvious. So I think there really is a profound contradiction between employment and what the system does. In that sense it seems to me, a political demand of the kind that there used for full employment is a demand for something the system can't possibly provide.
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How Ronald Reagan unwittingly laid the groundwork... →
Thanks to tireless efforts by historical revisionists over the past two decades, Ronald Reagan has gotten a lot of credit for achievements that he had nothing to do with. “Winning” the Cold War is a good example.
In reality, Reagan’s policies had little or nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, the last thing the Military Industrial Complex ever wanted was to see the Cold...
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