Genocide Here and There: Harvard Fellow calls for international community to starve Palestinian children
Via Electronic Intifada, this news that Martin Kramer of Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is calling for genocide of Palestinians as a solution to imperialism’s hiccups in the Middle East. Of course this kind of thinking is neither new, nor limited to the Middle East, nor in fact …
Haiti’s Wounded Long to Heal
Scott Weinstein is a comrade, as well as being a registered nurse. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans he traveled to New Orleans where he stayed for months, helping out at the Common Ground medical/community clinic. Immediately following the earthquake, Scott made his way to Haiti to do what …
Ojore Lutalo to Sue Amtrak for Bogus Bust
As detailed previously on this blog, a month ago Ojore Lutalo was arrested and accused of making terrorist threats while traveling home on the train from an anarchist bookfair on the west coast where he was speaking. The story floated was that someone had overheard him having a suspicious phone …
Balaclava! VMC Olympic Broadsheet Issue 5
The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.The Vancouver Media Coop is releasing a broadsheet every day of the Anti-Olympics Convergence.Today’s issue includes reports and photos about Saturday’s actions in Vancouver, including a legal update and a round-up of absurd Police behaviour Download …
Spartacist (ICL) Theory of Anarchism
The International Communist League, represented in (english) Canada as the Spartacist League, have a theory of anarchism emerging specifically as a result of the “low tide” or “movement interregnum” that followed the last cycle of struggle. In other words, in pissing-contest fashion, the line is put forth that because the …
Space Aliens Against Zionism
It’s tempting to make some snide comment about the colonizer needing the colonized to explain to them the meaning of their own movies. But you don’t need to have your ear to the ground to hear that that’s (one half of) the buzz around Avatar. More true would be the …
The Shock of Recognition
THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION: Looking at Hamerquist’s Fascism & Anti-Fascism by J. Sakai (an excerpt from Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement) available from leftwingbooks.net The Superman is a symbol, the exponent of this anguishing and tragic period of crisis that is traversing European consciousness while searching for …
Music and Poetry
The Politics of What You Hear Music on Sketchy Thoughts Music Videos on Sketchy Thoughts: More Cool Videos Poetry Music on the Kersplebedeb Site Musical Links Cool Web Radio Sites
An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun
An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun An Interview With Robert Fisk On Democracy Now by Robert Fisk and Amy Goodman Democracy Now; April 22, 2003 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=@&ItemID=503 Goodman: After spending a month in Iraq, could you describe your thoughts? Fisk: Well, my assumption is that history has …