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Kurkulos: Re: Amen!

Forum Post, May, 18 2013 Maryellen Kurkulos
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Indeed - my sincere and total agreement with you Michael. Thank you Alice for this poetic and important piece about Assata. It is imperative we hear about the epic struggles of our comrades that continue in what elites constantly assure us is a po...

Rissler: Amen!

Forum Post, May, 15 2013 Michael Rissler
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Alice Walker's commentary is my inspirational homily this morning.  I use intentionally theological language because we need something deeply different, new, and profound on issues of life and death, resistance, and society.  But, &q...

Szczepanczyk: Some follow-up thoughts...

Forum Post, May, 05 2013 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Great article.  It's certainly thought-provoking.  Here are some thoughts this article provokes:   "The first step, as with all tangible left projects, involves organizing: Members of the social movement and lone ranger le...

Bluhm: Canonizing Our Monsters

Forum Post, April, 14 2013 Richard Bluhm
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Yes, exactly, as we view the front pages of the newspapers across the U.S. that "canonize the monster" we shake our heads because we are helpless before the juggernaut of Eddie Bernays' inspired control of the masses.  And yes, ...

Szczepanczyk: Great interview

Forum Post, April, 11 2013 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I love this article.  It's grounded in the here and now, is full of useful facts and a call for action (smart action). 

Street: Second postscript

Forum Post, April, 09 2013 Paul Street
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Just ran across a remarkable example of the capitalist misuse of empathy/the Golden Rule in Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia (p.77). In the fall of 2009, Goldman Sachs actually sent its international adviser Brian Griffiths to say the fo...

Aronson: Thank you; it's the basic problem outlined perfectly

Forum Post, April, 09 2013 Sanda Aronson
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Thank you, Frida Berrigan.  You have outlined the core problem and I have experienced it, although I did not have the same set of demonstrations, nor civil disobedience, but did mine on a smaller scale.  The "coming out" and sp...

Aronson: Thank you; it

Forum Post, April, 09 2013 Sanda Aronson
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Walsh: Laying it on the line

Forum Post, April, 07 2013 Vincent Walsh
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Laurie Penny's commentary here is incisive and accurate, as usual; it takes enormous courage to protest injustice these days, in the face of increaing state violence, which involves nothing short of sadistic brutality. I witnessed this kind of...

Aronson: Re: Re: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Sanda Aronson
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Kelvin Yearwood haven't you replied before to one of my comments?  I am glad you did because the darn thing didn't upload after the little wheel spun and spun and I gave up and went offline.  But, it posted.  Thank you for r...

Yearwood: Re: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Kelvin Yearwood
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Hi Sanda, I think you are indanger of reifying corporations. Corporations can only be understood, like all institutions, primarily as a particular complex of human activity that has both some discrete aspects to its manufactured nature and connec...

Aronson: on love expecting nothing in return & "psychopaths" corporations

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Sanda Aronson
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I read the sections calling corporations "psychopaths" three times.  I don't see how Olson can call a nonhuman artificial creation, a corporation, "psychopath".  Yes, people are running them, but it's giving t...

Street: Postscript

Forum Post, April, 05 2013 Paul Street
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A television advertisement for an insurance company during the Iowa-Baylor basketball game last night proclaimed the following: "Everythng we do, we do for you."  The company apparently has no capitalist investors with selfish pr...

Street: Postscript: Greenwald on Constant Hovering and Coming Large-Scale Domestic Deployment

Forum Post, April, 04 2013 Paul Street
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Kenneth: I've never heard "congressional" in there but it could be ---- defense contracts have been spread across congressional districts to maximize congressional support for war spending. One thing I did not say enough (well any...

Jopp:

Forum Post, March, 30 2013 Kenneth Jopp
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Great essay! I thought the original phrase was "military-industrial-congressional complex" Whatever, we might keep expanding on it ad infinitum.  

Gool: FEAR AND LOATHING IN SOUTH AFRICA: SOME NOTES TOWARDS A FURTHER CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Forum Post, March, 11 2013 Selim Gool
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This comment can seen as an attempt to fill in the gaps or lacunae and spaces open up by the publication of the two articles that have appeared in ZNet this past month: the first South Africa’s New Apartheid by Sabine Cessou (http://www.zc...

Kurkulos: Re: Helpful

Forum Post, March, 05 2013 Maryellen Kurkulos
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Thanks, Brian - a thorough critique of reading still on my to-do list. It's great that the contributors are giving us meatier examinations of these 'end-times'-like perspectives, the greater challenge is the strategy and concrete next ...

Kurkulos: Helpful

Forum Post, March, 05 2013 Maryellen Kurkulos
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Bussell: Clarity within the Fog

Forum Post, March, 02 2013 Dennis Bussell
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Not for nothing is Chomsky called, "The American Socrates" with all that implies. From his earliest times to the present day, the man is incredible. A formidable intellect coupled to a equally courageous and astonishing moral compass co...

Szczepanczyk: Re: On American activists...

Forum Post, February, 17 2013 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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