December 11, 2011
There really is no need to say much more. This is the delusion that drives the population to accept that their salvation relies on the chosen elites and apart from scratching a mark on a piece of paper every three or four years there is nothing else they can or need to do. [...]
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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 [...]
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July 29, 2011
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
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July 19, 2011
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has confirmed that a preliminary investigation is under way into News Corporation’s activities. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the [...]
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July 16, 2011
Ed Miliband has called for cross-party agreement on new media rules to curtail Rupert Murdoch’s power. Photograph: Getty Images Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch‘s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour leader calls for cross-party agreement on new [...]
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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 [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 3, 2011
People often talk about a war to end all wars. This type of dialogue has continued for centuries and has never come true. But it is worse than a dream it is simply a delusion of the type so well referred to by Rudolf Rocker. It is part of the inoculation with a delusion that salvation always comes from [...]
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April 9, 2011
Described by Noam Chomsky as the last of the great thinkers Rocker engaged at the levels of the oppressed in society with great effect. He had a devotion to Anarcho-Syndicalism that is shared by Noam Chomsky. The following is a quote from “The London Years” a very moving and interesting account of what Rocker did in camps [...]
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March 28, 2011
Prince Andrew’s daughter ‘was given necklace by Libyan businessman’ Allegation of birthday gift for Beatrice piles further pressure on Prince Andrew over his work as special trade representative Share62 Stephen Bates guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 March 2011 16.43 BST Article history Prince Andrew admitted he had been unwise after revelations earlier this month about his friendship [...]
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March 26, 2011
What follows is an article from the Guardian about the nature of British resistance to the means to be used to combat the economic slump brought on by the financial community and the forces of capital It gives good cause to reflect on just what a proper attitude of Resistie e Vencer means to the elites and the media. There is [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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