May 24, 2012
Anarchist Studies: Syndicalism, Anarchism and Marxism Wed, 05/23/2012 – 14:02 — Anarcho Printer-friendly versionThis is the published version of a reply to an article by Marxist Ralph Darlington in Anarchist Studies (vol. 17, no. 2). Darlington’s original article appeared in Volume 17, Number 1 of Anarchist Studies and discusses the anarchist origins of syndicalism and refutes attempts [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Bakunin, Karl Marx, Marx, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Second International
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May 6, 2012
Black Flag: Syndicalism, Marxist Myth and Anarchist Reality Wed, 04/18/2012 – 13:58 — Anarcho link to article http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/black-flag-syndicalism-marxist-myth-anarchist-reality Printer-friendly versionThis is a very edited version of the review article Syndicalism, Marxist Myth and Anarchist Reality and will appear in the new issue of Black Flag (235) out May 2012. This issue also has as its revolutionary [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Anarchism in Spain, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Bakunin, Black Flag, Leninism, Leninist, Libertarian socialism, Marxism, Ralph Darlington
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April 30, 2012
“The key to the behaviour of subjects [willing to torture and kill on command] lies not in pent-up anger or aggression but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes; once so defined, they are [...]
Tags: Conscience, Dissent, Lewis H. Lapham, Nationalism, Rocker, Rudolf Rocker, Samuel Adams, Wildfire
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April 29, 2012
“Proposing a Counterhegemonic Economic System” by Enric Duran, Translated by Scott Pierpont The IAS Blog Proposing a Counterhegemonic Economic System by Enric Duran, with contributions from members of the Temps de re-voltes collective. enric@enricduran.cat Translated by Scott Pierpont scott.pierpont@zoho.com January 2008, Translated September 2010 “If people living in [...]
Tags: Catalonia, Economic, Economic system, Occupy Wall Street, Social Science, Solidarity economy, Tax, United States
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April 23, 2012
The speed of money Mon, 04/02/2012 – 11:16 — Sidewinder Printer-friendly version http://anarchism.pageabode.com/sidewinder/speed-moneyThese are the notes for a talk given at the Occupy University sessions at Occupy Dame Street last October (2011). —- Money’s been around for a long time, since the days of the mythical King Croesus. Certainly far longer than capitalism. [...]
Tags: France, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Knights Templar, Lego, Money, Money supply, Templar
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March 19, 2012
The Networked Individual in Why its Kicking Off Everywhere – audio of discussion on Paul Mason’s book Fri, 03/16/2012 – 11:53 — AndrewNFlood Printer-friendly version Andrew Flood looks at Paul Mason’s recently published book ‘Why its kicking off everywhere’ and in particular what Mason [...]
Tags: Andrew Flood, Dublin, egypt, Mason, Mixcloud, Printer friendly, Workers Solidarity, WSM
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March 13, 2012
Laying the foundations: Proudhon’s contribution to anarchist economics Thu, 02/09/2012 – 15:18 — Anarcho Printer-friendly version This is an introduction to Proudhon’s economic ideas and their influence on revolutionary anarchism. It is a chapter from the new book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics (AK Press [US/UK], 2012) and its blurb (in [...]
Tags: AK Press, Anarchism, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Property is theft!, Rudolf Rocker, United State, What Is Property?
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March 12, 2012
Review: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Sat, 03/03/2012 – 16:23 — Anarcho Printer-friendly versionHa-Joon Chang, while an economist, is not of the mainstream neo-classical brand. This becomes very obvious reading his extremely useful book 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. It also becomes very clear that Chang is [...]
Tags: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, Britain, China, Free market, Ha-Joon Chang, India, Neoliberalism, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Politics, Scandinavia, Sub-Saharan Africa, United State, United States
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March 6, 2012
Is the Irish ‘austerity referendum’ where the real battleground is for the left? Fri, 03/02/2012 – 11:51 — AndrewNFlood Printer-friendly version Ireland is to have a referendum after all on the EU austerity treaty and a lot of the left is getting unreasonably excited [...]
Tags: Dublin, European Union, Ireland, Referendum, Taoiseach, United States, Workers Solidarity, Workers' Party of Ireland
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February 26, 2012
Referenda: A Strategy for Success? Thu, 01/19/2012 – 09:40 — AndrewNFlood Printer-friendly versionThe idea that calling for a referendum is a good strategy for winning significant reforms often crops up in campaigns. It seems logical, as a referendum is a chance for the population to directly make a decision on the issue [...]
Tags: Constitution of Ireland, Dáil Éireann, Evening Herald, Ireland, Irish Daily Star, Referendum, Sunday Independent, Sunday World
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February 26, 2012
Laying the foundations: Proudhon’s contribution to anarchist economics Thu, 02/09/2012 – 15:18 — Anarcho Printer-friendly version This is an introduction to Proudhon’s economic ideas and their influence on revolutionary anarchism. It is a chapter from the new book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics (AK Press [US/UK], 2012) and its blurb [...]
Tags: AK Press, Anarchism, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Property is theft!, Rudolf Rocker, United States, What Is Property?
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December 22, 2011
Think-N-Evolve (CC-BY) The words of the U.S. Constitution appear against Anarchism’s signature colors of black and red. As those weary of Occupy Wall Street’s insistence on direct democracy grow increasingly critical, Nathan Schneider with The Nation reminds us that it was anarchist principles that attracted and kept so many of its most devoted participants, and which [...]
Tags: Direct democracy, Libertarian socialism, Nathan Schneider, Nation, Republican, Sarah Palin, United States, Wall Street
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December 7, 2011
Syndicalism, Marxist Myth and Anarchist Reality Fri, 11/25/2011 – 15:35 — Anarcho Printer-friendly version“In drawing up theses for the international workers’ movement we must not begin with theoretical, preconceived assumptions… If we forsake the empirical road and take one that is doctrinaire, we cannot create an International of struggle.” Augustin Souchy at the [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Augustin Souchy, Bolshevik, Comintern, Darlington, Leninism, Marxism, Ralph Darlington
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November 29, 2011
The ‘Occupy’ movement is ‘a genuine attempt to create the institutions of a new society in the shell of the old’ [AFP] London, UK – Almost every time I’m interviewed by a mainstream journalist about Occupy Wall Street I get some variation of the same lecture: “How are you going to get anywhere if you refuse [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Direct action, London, Marxism, middle east, Tompkins Square Park, United States, Wall Street
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November 18, 2011
In his book on Anarcho-Syndicalism Rocker also includes a short piece on the anarchist movement that he was not only associated with but was one of its main exponents. You may remember the immense help and assistance that Rocker gave to the Jewish community in London and elsewhere around the times connected [...]
Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalism, History, Jew, London, New York, Rocker, Rudolf Rocker, Rudolf Rocker Pluto, Second World War. This, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War II
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November 14, 2011
Notes on Anarchism Noam Chomsky In Daniel Guérin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, 1970 A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that “anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything” — including, he noted those whose acts are such that “a mortal enemy of anarchism could [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Daniel Guérin, Noam Chomsky, Rocker, Rudolf Rocker, Spanish Revolution, State
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October 21, 2011
How Anti-Authoritarians Can Transcend their Sense of Hopelessness and Fight Back LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Critical thinking anti-authoritarians see the enormity of the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial complex and the financial-industrial complex. They see the overwhelming power of the U.S. ruling class. They see many Americans unaware of the true sources of their oppression or [...]
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Critical thinking, Lauren Alloy, Lincoln, Politics, Soviet, Soviet Union, United States
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October 4, 2011
Events The radical ideas of Noam Chomsky, University of Wollongong forum. 1pm, Monday 10 October. Free. Brian Martin, Professor of Social Sciences, will introduce Chomsky’s political thought and highlight its continued relevance to social movements in Australia. Wollongong activist Lindsay Hawkins will speak on the Liberal government’s attacks on the public sector and rank [...]
Tags: chomsky, Israel, Jura Books, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, Social Sciences, Sydney Peace Prize, University of Wollongong
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September 21, 2011
Viva la anarquia Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:51:07 +0300 From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue both in the occupied west bank and within Israel To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4E787E2B.30209@ainfos.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”utf-8″; Format=”flowed” Day after day, year after year, the struggle against the Israeli advanced expansion, suppression and pressures [...]
Tags: Anarchists Against the Wall, Beit Ummar, Halhul, Israel, Message-ID, Palestinian people, Tel Aviv, West Bank
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August 24, 2011
France‘s rich keen to pay more tax as PM Fillon announces ‘rigour package’ Liliane Bettencourt, the L’Oréal heiress, in 1975. Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex Features Sixteen wealthy French citizens have signed a petition reddit this Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 August 2011 18.08 BST Article history As a group of France’s wealthiest citizens, including [...]
Tags: Air France-KLM, France, François Fillon, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Le Nouvel Observateur, Liliane Bettencourt, Pierre Bergé, Warren Buffett
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August 24, 2011
Dear Antiwar Progressives: We Are With You Jeremy Sapienza, August 22, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Look. It’s no secret most of us at Antiwar.com are libertarians and/or anarchists (a Venn diagram of the two labels would only have a few of us outside the overlapping part…). But it’s never enough [...]
Tags: David Bromwich, Glass-Steagall Act, Glass–Steagall Act, Lawrence Summers, Libertarianism, Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, United State
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August 10, 2011
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:22:43 +0300 From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Britain, North London Solfed’s response to the London riots To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4E4150C3.7070500@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”windows-1252″; Format=”flowed” With media sources blaming anarchy for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation felt a response from an anarchist organisation active [...]
Tags: Birmingham, David Cameron, DVD, England, Independent Police Complaints Commission, London, Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Police Service, Riot, The Guardian, Toxteth
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July 31, 2011
Anarchists should be reported, City of Westminster police have advised locals. Photograph: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images What should you do if you discover an anarchist living next door? Dust off your old Sex Pistols albums and hang out a black and red flag to make them feel at home? Invite them round to debate the [...]
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July 30, 2011
“The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.” Gustav Landauer (German Anarchist) Related articles A short conversation about atheists and anarchists (ikners.com) A message from active [...]
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July 16, 2011
The message below from Anarchists overseas is very consistent with comments this page makes as prefaces to articles, particularly about Greece. With all the disclosure of the thoroughly criminal activities by the Murdoch press it is well to remember that you should not divorce corrupt and illegal conduct from the basically very corrupt system that is the source of it all. Most of the [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Austerity, Capitalism, Greece, Greek government, Ireland, Message-ID, Politics of Greece
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July 14, 2011
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:04:38 +0300 From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Southern Africa. Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front – ZACF – Build a Better Workers Movement: Learning from South Africas 2010 Mass Strike Lucien van der Walt and Ian Bekker To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4E1DA5F6.1080304@netvision.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”windows-1252″; Format=”flowed” The biggest single strike since the [...]
Tags: Africa, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Employment, Johannesburg, Politics, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid, South African Democratic Teachers Union, Strike action, Trade union
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, George III of the United Kingdom, George W. Bush, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, War Powers Resolution
Posted in Anarchism, Arab democracy, Arab movements, Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, civil liberty, Corporate greed and excess, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dissent, Drug Company Dependence, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Fukushima, Genocide, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Gitmo, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, Guantanamo crimes, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Manufacturing Consent, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Parliament, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Regulating Democracy, torture, Torturers are true Americans, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women's issues | No Comments »
June 27, 2011
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Austria, LISA – Libertarian Social Work Initiative Ender (VIENNA) – [machine translation] (de) To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4E084D92.5070901@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii“; Format=”flowed” Who we are and what we want —- “Syndicate for all workers (inside) in the social and health sector” —- LISA is an initiative to create a local grass-roots trade [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Austria, Austrian Trade Union Federation, Message-ID, MIME, Non-governmental organization, Politics, Social work, Trade union, VIENNA, Work
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June 26, 2011
We’re All Leninists Now There seems little doubt that the Lenin owes a great deal to the world in his completely calculated use of Marxist ideals to impose a savagery on peoples of the world that has very little to compare it with. From very early days Bakunin constantly warned as did many anarchists that [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced interrogation techniques, John Yoo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, United States, Vladimir Lenin
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June 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, David Randall, Elite, Jonathan Owen, middle east, United State, War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Air war, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, antiwar.com, Arab democracy, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Bin Laden, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, CIA, civil liberty, Corporate greed and excess, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Malalai Joya, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, Poverty, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protest, Psycopaths, Racism, Taliban, torture, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 26, 2011
Final hours of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca revealed Historian claims to know who made up Franco’s execution squad and where they buried the poet during Spain’s civil war Share412 reddit this Comments (18) Giles Tremlett in Madrid guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 June 2011 21.19 BST Article history The celebrated writer Federico García Lorca was [...]
Tags: Blood Wedding, Execution by firing squad, Federico García Lorca, Francisco Franco, Giles Tremlett, Granada, House of Bernarda Alba, Javier Navarro, Spain, Spanish Civil War
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, civil liberty, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, Coal, Consent, Corporate greed and excess, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, Drug Company Dependence, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Fascism, Food, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Fox News, Fracking, Galeano, Gaza, Global Food System, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Journalism, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Nakba, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Pakistan, Palestine, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Qaddafi, Racism, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Syria, Syria conflict, Syria repression and violence, Syria sanctions, Taliban, torture, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Chalmers Johnson, chomsky, Deterring Democracy, Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project), Iraq, Jonathan Schell, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Tom Engelhardt, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War I
Posted in Anarchism, Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Chomsky on Bin Laden, Chomsky opinion, CIA, Corporate greed and excess, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, elections, Elites, Fascism, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Naomi Klein, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Regulating Democracy, Rudolf Rocker, torture, Torturers are true Americans, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War and economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
June 4, 2011
Back to School Filed under: Uncategorized — Federal Farmer @ 3:12 pm Edit This Well, the kids are back in school again and it’s always just a matter of time before my wife and I are approached by one of their teachers asking why our child won’t say the pledge of allegiance. Usually it takes a couple [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Atheism, Chile, Christmas, God, Grupo Santander, Pledge of Allegiance, Politics, State school, Teacher, United States
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June 4, 2011
An interview with Wendell Berry Filed under: Uncategorized — Federal Farmer @ 11:06 am Edit This A friend just sent me this neat little interview with Wendell Berry in Sun Magazine. Though not everything in it will be lauded on ASC, I think many of the gems offered, by the always eloquent and insightful Berry, will resonate. The [...]
Tags: Crusades, Dorothy Day, G.K. Chesterton, History, Kentucky, Politics, The Swan House (The Swan House Series #1), Wendell Berry
Posted in Anarchism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Democracy, Dirty Energy, Dissent, Fascism, Imperial Project, Imperialism | No Comments »
June 2, 2011
This is an article from Irish Anarchists about their position in Ireland. The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against ordinary people as a [...]
Tags: Deputy Lieutenant, Des Geraghty, Dublin North Central, Hosni Mubarak, Kevin Rafter, Labour, Labour Party, Northern Ireland, Parties, Politics, Workers' Party of Ireland
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May 27, 2011
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:26:42 +0300 From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Egypt: Libertarian Socialist Movement To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4DDE2AE2.6020904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”; Format=”flowed” We libertarian socialists struggle for a socialist society without classes, an anti- authoritarian society free of the repressive apparatus of the State and of Capital. We stand against the introduction [...]
Tags: egypt, Liberalism, Libertarian socialism, Message-ID, MIME, Politics, Socialism, United States
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May 26, 2011
There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky ZNet, May 2011 After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Geoffrey Robertson, Helmut Schmidt, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Terrorist Organizations, United State, United States Navy SEALs, Wall Street Journal, White House, Z Communications
Posted in Anarchism, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Assassination, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Bin Laden, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky article, Chomsky on Bin Laden, Chomsky opinion, CIA, Commentators, Consent, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Labor, Leon Panetta, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Peace Movement, Pentagon, people's protests, Police forces and Middle East, President of the World, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Special Ops, Spies, torture, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Wikileaks | No Comments »
May 26, 2011
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:13:41 +0300 From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca Subject: (en) Spain: It’s our moment: May the occupations and disobedience continue! – A statement by the anarchosyndicalist CNT To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca> Message-ID: <4DDB84D5.8080508@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”windows-1252″; Format=”flowed” On the May protests and occupations which have swept the country. —- The countless demonstrations and occupations [...]
Tags: Election Day, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Madrid, People's Party, Puerta del Sol, Spain, Spanish Socialist Workers Party, United States
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May 19, 2011
This is a first rate article on the media and the Middle East it is written by, Nir Rosen, who is an American journalist who writes on current and international affairs. He has contributed to The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, among others. His latest book is Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim [...]
Tags: Australia, Barack Obama, egypt, middle east, Muslim world, New Yorker, Nir Rosen, Rolling Stone
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, anti zion protests, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Armageddon, Assassination, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream | No Comments »
May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bundeswehr, Hamid Karzai, middle east, NATO, Protest, Takhar Province, Taloqan
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May 19, 2011
It is not enough when you are a member of the oldest living class of the oppressed. When things turn out badly this is if not the only suggested male solution it as least a boost to the male dominated economy. The actions of oppressed could be assisted ify the philosophy of mujeres libres is [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Feminist movement, People, Politics, Spain, Teresina, Women, womens rights
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May 17, 2011
Legendary musician, actor, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte joins us for the hour to talk about his battle against racism, his mentor Paul Robeson, the power of music to push for political change, his close relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the U.S. role in Haiti. A new documentary chronicles [...]
Tags: Haiti, Harlem, Harry Belafonte, Jamaica, Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Paul Robeson, Sundance Film Festival, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Propaganda, Racism, Rudd, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
May 17, 2011
For tourists the right kind of equipment is necessary. Understanding the people is essential as well as knowing your way around. To get ready if you are in any doubt phone a friend look for the top spots, fly discount, stay at backpacker accom and just basically get in the groove. Queen begins historic Ireland [...]
Tags: Dublin, Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth II, Ireland, Irish people, Irish Sea, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, State visit
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May 17, 2011
One day everyone or at least those left alive and still able to think and speak will thank Assange whoever and whatever he was,is and will be. For the elites the hegemons the imperialists and the capitalists the truth has to be guarded against. Elaborate systems of lies, deceit and murder must be put in place [...]
Tags: ENI, iPhone, Iran, Julian Assange, New York Times, The McClatchy Company, United States, WikiLeaks
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Bashar-al Assad, Justin Raimondo, middle east, Riders On The Storm, Rudolf Rocker, Tel Aviv, United States
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Africa, Air war, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Bakunin, Bin Laden, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, China, Chomsky, CIA, Consent, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, disaster, Dissent, elections, Elites, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Gaza, Genocide, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Global capitalism and imperialism, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hamas, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints, Jason Ditz, Libya, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Nakba, Negotiate. It's now or never, Nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Police forces and Middle East, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Qaddafi, Racism, Raimondo, Right of return, Right to return, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Stateless socialism, Syria, Syria sanctions, torture, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, voodoo rhythm economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Waterboarding, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 16, 2011
This is an article from Der Spiegel about the Bin Laden assassination. After all the rumour and innuendo dies down what we can expect is that the US will continue to lie about what really happened for what can only be reasons of world domination. However, by simply going into a foreign country and assassinating someone like Israel their close cohorts [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, David Suzuki, Der Spiegel, Osama BinLaden, Peter Kropotkin, Terrorist Organizations, United States
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May 16, 2011
An Australian author as mentioned on this site once wrote a book titled “Taking the Risk out of Democracy.” His name was Alex Carey Chomsky wrote an introduction to that book and also had a short dedication of “Manufacturing Consent” to Carey. Chomsky has written extensively on how much hatred there is in the western world for [...]
Tags: Arab world, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Iran, middle east, Noam Chomsky, Saudi Arabia, United State, WikiLeaks
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May 13, 2011
The totally cold hearted and bloodthirsty imperial project can perhaps even if for some ulterior reason produce something like a good result. For those of you who think that worse is better try looking at those affected and think about grabbing even the most meagre of forced concessions with open arms. No doubt anyone allowed [...]
Tags: Australia, Capitol Hill, Cuba, International Committee of the Red Cross, List of Guantanamo Bay detainees, Military, Pentagon, The Pentagon, United States, WordPress
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May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Asia, Bakunin, Elite, Karl Marx, Latin America, London, Marx, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Bakunin, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Escobar, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, NATO, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, people's protests, Pilger, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Ray McGovern, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Swanson, Tom Dispatch, torture, Unemployment, University education, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
Much More To Say. A post Bin Laden Death article by Noam Chomsky
There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky ZNet, May 2011 After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Geoffrey Robertson, Helmut Schmidt, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Terrorist Organizations, United State, United States Navy SEALs, Wall Street Journal, White House, Z Communications
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