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Forum Post Jamaluddin: Re: Terrorism Is A Symptom of Oppression

Forum Post, September, 28 2011 Samir Jamaluddin
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Doesn't NC regularly say Terrorism is primarily the weapon of the strong/powerful not the weak?  Therefore I believe your title to be incorrect.

Forum Post Myers: Re: Digging Deeper

Forum Post, September, 21 2011 Mike Myers
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I agree with KK that there is a strangely obscurantist cast to IW's summary. But to dig deeper still, isn't  the nature of "capital accumulation" itself the core macro issue? More accurately, the nature of this "ca...

Forum Post Nguyen-tri: Baloney detection toolkit

Forum Post, September, 21 2011 David Nguyen-tri
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This is an interesting article, but I was left with a bit of an unsated appetite. There is much in Michael Alberts' questions that is left unanswered. For instance, when Albert asks rationality and irrationality are, the answer is entirely abo...

Forum Post Keller: Digging Deeper

Forum Post, September, 20 2011 Keith Keller
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Immanuel Wallerstein correctly depicts the Social-Democratic option as currently being an illusion, the Social-Democrats endlessly moving rightward in response to conditions. His analysis of the “conditions” causing this, however,&n...

Forum Post New: Scientific conceptual toolkit

Forum Post, September, 19 2011 Rick New

Perhaps, since we are speaking of irrationality, it might be relevant to add a note here about some insights emerging from the field of neuroscience.  For those interested see Sam Harris on "We are Lost in Thought". from ...

Forum Post Howe: Re: Chomsky

Forum Post, September, 19 2011 Ken Howe
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A slight oversight or something: the "city on a hill" is from the New Testament (Matthew 5:14). Winthrop saw "us" as "the light of the world."

Forum Post Phreed: Is it important for the left to understand religious right, and or the basis for other right or left irrational actions or beliefs

Forum Post, September, 19 2011 Rhuen Phreed
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Thank you Noam & Michael, This type of conversation, combination of subject matter/topics, interests me in two ways, on the one hand,, I being quite the arm chair philosopher, a necessity as to keep me interested and active in life,,, and ...

Forum Post Brussel: Chomsky

Forum Post, September, 18 2011 Morton k. Brussel
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This commentary needs editing, even if it is not supposed to be… Chomsky too often strays from the questions posed. It's as if in his encyclopedic brain he has so much information available that he loses the essential threads of the arg...

Forum Post Patterson: moral obligations legit - fraud is not

Forum Post, September, 17 2011 Dave Patterson
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I could write a great deal about this, but I guess just making one central point would be better. It's hard to understand the point of the piece - honest debt is a moral thing, if I borrow a few dollars from you and then run off without paying...

Forum Post explorer: What about the responsibility of Hitchens?

Forum Post, September, 12 2011 spanish explorer
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In this responsibility of intellectuals I´m missing one mention: Christopher Hitchens. Is not he one of them, in any sense? In my opinion it would be a good idea to call for a public debate between Hitchens and Chomsky. Both have recognize t...

Forum Post Gorman: Terrorism Is A Symptom of Oppression

Forum Post, September, 11 2011 Sharee Anne Gorman
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"The War on Terror" is ridiculous because terrorism is simply a symptom of the disease known as oppression - stop one, and the other disappears on its own...like a cancer that has nothing left to feed on.  Today, 9/11/11, ...

Forum Post MARKS: Its ALJAZEERA mate !

Forum Post, September, 06 2011 Howard MARKS
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ALJAZEERA English (International to its staff) is NEVER written like al Jazeera...William Blum like Robert Fisk seems to think if they write it in a more Arabesque manner its shows they know more. On screen ALJAZEERA English is simply ALJAZEERA w...

Forum Post Keller: Man of Principle

Forum Post, September, 02 2011 Keith Keller
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Along with people such as Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman and John Pilger, William Blum has consistently provided clear-headed, rational analysis not influenced by the current bias of the liberal intelligentsia. Always good to hear his voice of rea...

Forum Post Brussel: Exceptions?

Forum Post, August, 31 2011 Morton k. Brussel
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Not all venues for publication of research/science articles are for the publishers cited. The American Institute of Physics, with its prestigious physics periodicals, is an example. I suspect there are others: Science? Nature?  

Forum Post Gorman: The Global Labor Treaty

Forum Post, August, 29 2011 Sharee Anne Gorman
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It was labor and austerity that sparked recent citizen movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Wisconsin, Spain, Greece and London, just to name a few, and I believe it will be labor that unites the world in solidarity. Please SIGN and (really important)...

Forum Post New: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nonviolence Has Limited Effectiveness...

Forum Post, August, 25 2011 Rick New

I am deeply hurt (and saddened) by the way things are, too.  Perhaps, those that have the power to oppress are hurt as well? Alienation may be part of what humans feel when we forget we are thinking. I like the Orwell quote, thank you. I h...

Forum Post Waters: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nonviolence Has Limited Effectiveness...

Forum Post, August, 25 2011 Joseph Waters

I think I understand what you mean, my gentle friend. I hope we can win our complete liberation without violence. That would be the best revenge of all, I think. Perhaps, as George Orwell said, there really is no such thing as revenge. It is just ...

Forum Post Schloss: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm sorry, I thought I was clearer

Forum Post, August, 25 2011 Paul Schloss
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I agree we will have to accept our differences.  Though I disagree I haven't replied to what your wrote.  But others will have to judge.  As to a special approach.  I wish I had one.  I don't.

Forum Post New: Re: Re: Re: Nonviolence Has Limited Effectiveness...

Forum Post, August, 25 2011 Rick New

Yes, violence can produce complete submission, docility and slavery, but then the violence still exists, does it not?  We have not understood violence and therefore cannot hope to move beyond it (or anything else we do not understand.)

Forum Post MARKS: Comment on the denial inside

Forum Post, August, 25 2011 Howard MARKS
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Ilan you rock ! But please comment on the denialist nature of the current protests inside Israel. I saw one young Israeli leader of the protests insisting that "we are a democracy" some people have become upset by attempts to draw para...

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