Nothing guts a thought so much as apologetic blahblahblah stuck at the beginning, letting all and sundry know that you can’t stand by what you’re about to say without establishing all your escape routes ahead of time. But there you go… i’ve spent (wasted?) too many hours over the past …
The following is an important statement from Adoptees of Color, regarding the current hype about [mostly white] people in imperialist countries rescuing Black and Brown people in the neocolonies, in the current instance Haiti. Statement on HaitiJanuary 25, 2010 This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees …
Q. I heard President Bush say that after the World Trade Towers massacre, America must support a new “crusade” to wipe out Islamic terrorism worldwide. A. Millions of people in the Muslim world were stunned at his choice of words. Since the original “crusades” were the mass invasions of the Middle East by …
As predicted, racist anxieties in Quebec about Muslims and immigrants are proving fair game as Jean Charest and Mario Dumont have tried to score cheap electoral points, each of them hoping it will win them white votes in the upcoming provincial election here… The latest chapter in this growing novella …
Saddam Hussein meets with his boss Donald Rumsfeld First Pinochet, and now Saddam Hussein. Two pieces of shit. Two men drenched in their victims’ blood. Two men put in power by the greatest war criminals of our age… this December was their last, and yet 2007 remains stained by their …
Phebus, a comrade from the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists, made a series of good points regarding by post Quebecistan? I wish… a few days ago, in which i commented on NEFAC’s position of Quebec nationalism. I’m going to re-post his comments here, and try to answer some of …
Vienna Protest Against Execution of Queer Teens in Iran The following is a very interesting and thoughtful argument about how queers in the US can best to act in solidarity with their “sexual minority” counterparts in Iran. While i may not be in the same groove as the authors, i …
Dark Victory The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty by Walden Bello, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau 148 pp. Illustrated. 1994. Oakland: Food First. $12.95. (pb). You’ve probably been taught about systems of debt-peonage that prevailed in more sinister eras or lands. The share cropper or laborer was …