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Znet Article Roblin: New Study Claims Over 250,000 Died From 2011 Somalia Famine, U.S.-Al Shabaab Savagery To Blame

Znet Article, May, 11 2013 Stephen Roblin
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The famine was one of history's rare socio-natural calamities in that it was predicted almost a year in advance, providing sufficient time to avert it

Znet Article Marty: On the State of Spain's 15M and Revolutionary Organization, Part II

Znet Article, June, 02 2012 Daniel Marty
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Interview on the International Organization for a Participatory Society

Znet Article Marty: Spain's 15M and Revolutionary Organization, Part I

Znet Article, May, 24 2012 David Marty
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Interview on the evolution and future prospects of the 15M movement

Forum Post Roblin: draft revision

Forum Post, April, 17 2012 Stephen Roblin
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See my draft revision here: http://www.iopsociety.org/forum/the-site/video

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 22 2012 Stephen Roblin
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"And the social sciences (so called soft sciences) are very much linked to the power systems." For this reason, I've wondered if a filter approach could be applied to the social sciences in order to achieve a better understand of th...

Forum Post Roblin: Postmodern Generator

Forum Post, March, 22 2012 Stephen Roblin
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A friend referred me to the "postmodern generator." Here's the wiki description: The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces imitations of postmodernist writing, especially that of critical theory...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Thanks for passing along. Interesting. To add force, it would help to apply the test to other scholars. Imagine disfiguring a basic Chomsky quote about linguistics. Anyone familiar with his thought would be able to spot the fraudulent quote a mile...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Hi Mäkinen. Interestingly, what you describe is not all that different from my "imposter test" described prior to your follow-up remarks. Your professor's comments about writing that "feels professional" seems...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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One more thought. Perhaps one could perform an "imposter test." Here's what it would entail: 1) Start with an individual who is entirely unfamiliar with all the typical jargon associated with the post-modern style. 2) Take a...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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*reduce (not "reduct")

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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My view is that to "frame" parecon in such nonsense is to reduct it to just that.  Imagine what it would take to transform a passage on parecon in order for it to conform with such an approach. You'd have to peform the f...

Blog Post Roblin: Stop Kony, Arm Uganda!

Blog Post, March, 15 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Stop Kony, Arm Uganda! Sounds like a good way to deal with a murderous thug, except for one problem: Uganda is controlled by a murderous thug, Yoweri Museveni, whom we already arm to the teeth. Thus, before dousing ourselves with the waters of rig...

Forum Post Roblin: Much needed sense

Forum Post, March, 15 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Hi Michael, Glad you wrote this blog. You may be interested in a piece I wrote last May about the virtual dictator's (Museveni) handling of the  February 2011 elections and the democracy protests in the spring (http://www.zco...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: "Occupy marched quickly to the left"?

Forum Post, February, 14 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Demands can provide direction. Based on what I've seen in Baltimore, the occupy movement has become more diffuse. I'm not sure this is a shortcoming. The verdict is still out. But I think it's partly symptomatic that participants could...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: "Occupy marched quickly to the left"?

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Actually, Cooke does elaborate a bit on the above-raised point: "Austerity is happening fast in the United States; on a state-by-state level massive cuts are being pushed through while taxes on the rich stay low. Health care, edu...

Forum Post Roblin: "Occupy marched quickly to the left"?

Forum Post, February, 13 2012 Stephen Roblin
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The comments that stood out the most for me are: "Numbers matter, and Occupy has been shedding numbers for months. A major reason for this is because Occupiers have swerved drastically left, leaving the broader 99% ashore. If this tre...

Znet Article Roblin: Kenya's Criminal Assault on Famine-Stricken Somalia

Znet Article, December, 18 2011 Stephen Roblin
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The U.S.-backed Kenyan invasion of southern Somalia falls squarely in the legal categories of a "substantive violation" of the long-standing Somali arms embargo and foreign aggression, the "supreme international crime" in the determination of the ...

Forum Post Roblin: Courageous and Inspiring

Forum Post, November, 21 2011 Stephen Roblin
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Thank you Brian for sharing the video and your thoughts. The students show of courage is very much inspiring.

Forum Post Roblin: Re:

Forum Post, November, 09 2011 Stephen Roblin
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Please excuse the type in the first sentence.

Forum Post Roblin:

Forum Post, November, 08 2011 Stephen Roblin
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Yotam - You encapsulate in clear, terse terms - free from jargon that only isolates -  the ideas that should form the basis of an effective liberatory strategy in clear, terse terms, free from jargon that only isolates.  You also correct...

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