As US politics lurches rapidly to the right, worried residents wonder about getting out. Friends talk among themselves about moving to Canada, Europe, Mexico–anywhere to escape Trumpland. Taking a different angle, some activists propose separating the “blue states” from the “red states,” essentially redrawing the map of North America. One …
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Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html#page=1
Everything about Crystal’s life was ordinary, except for her death. She is one of a demographic—white women who don’t graduate from high school—whose life expectancy has declined dramatically over the past 18 years. These women can now expect to die five years earlier than the generation before them. It is …
Monday, April 8, 2013 Contact:   Kali Akuno404.567.5938kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Annual Report reveals that 313 Black People were killed in 2012, averaging one every 28 hours. Every 28 hours in 2012 someone employed or protected by the US government killed a Black man, woman, or child! This startling fact …
Just a quick heads up that Michael Novick has written a brief response to Don Hamerquist’s Thinking and Acting in Real Time in the Real World. It is up on the excellent Three Way Fight blog, at http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2010/03/michael-novick-responds-to-thinking-and.html Just to recap, Michael is the editor of Turning The Tide, publication …
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 …
A nice appeal to those who find themselves attracted to the patriot movement, care of Phoenix Class War Council: As it now stands, much of the patriot movement demands not an end to fascism, but an exemption from the fascism that it demands for others. To read the whole post, …
Gabriel Kuhn has interviewed AndrĂ© Moncourt and J. Smith, the editors of Projectiles for the People, about their book, the RAF, and armed struggle. The complete interview is reposted here and also on the german guerilla website. A slightly abbreviated German version of this interview will appear in the German …
The following is an important article by Dr. Atul Gawande, on the subject of isolation-torture as it is practiced in u.s. prisons. The article appeared in the March 30, 2009, edition of The New Yorker, and is available on their website here. One of the most striking things for me, …