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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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Szczepanczyk: On American activists...

Forum Post, February, 17 2013 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Good post, but this article didn't mention one American activist in recent years who immolated himself as an act of political protest, Malachi Ritscher.  Chicago Independent Television produced some short films about Malachi, including th...

Shepherd: It is about time!

Forum Post, February, 13 2013 Lester Shepherd
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Thank you Penny for reporting this.  Hope it catches on.  There are plenty of other areas that could use group vigilantism, especially in small situations of injustice.

Szczepanczyk: Operation First Casualty on Chicago Independent Television

Forum Post, February, 11 2013 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Operation First Casualty's Chicago actions were the focus of a segment on Chicago Independent Television in 2007:

Goodrich: Women's role in Egyptian society

Forum Post, February, 09 2013 John Goodrich
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With some 90% of women in Egypt having undergone the misogyny of FGM , it is difficult to see how the totalitarian male-dominated nuclear family structure can be changed anytime soon . Undereducated and insecure in their maleness, the men will ten...

Goodrich: AND?????

Forum Post, February, 06 2013 John Goodrich
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Absent a change to SOCIALISM in one form or another, a word that  ZNet articles written by progressives and not principled leftists , seem reluctant to use preferring euphemisms like "a democratic, just and economically prosperous societ...

James:

Forum Post, January, 29 2013 Andrew James
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Great book plenty of such resources.

Davidson: A start, but...

Forum Post, January, 28 2013 Carl Davidson
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This is a decent start of a complex and critical topic. I only wish it didn't sidetrack itself with the standard 'left' dogma about the Democratic Party. Here in Western PA, we deal with this all the time. Most of our organizing is am...

Barkdull: Re: Re: Sound quality

Forum Post, January, 18 2013 John Barkdull
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Works fine for me. I did have to turn up the volume. If that did not work, powered speakers would.