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Weiss: Important Post
Forum Post, January, 24 2013
Adam Weiss
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Very well-thought out piece. I think the implications for union strategies are very important to keep in mind. I'd be curious to know 1) what practical steps should be taken now to advance the syndicalist idea and 2) what your thou...
Mokoape: Obervations: Obama Second Term Challenges (The Middle East)
Blog Post, January, 24 2013
Karabo Che Mokoape
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The Middle East is in turmoil. Obama needs new ideas to solve old problems.
Bybee: With Massey Energy Execs Cutting Deals, Will the Don of Coal Country Finally Face Time?
Blog Post, January, 23 2013
Roger Bybee
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Don Blankenship, long enjoying impunity for his environmental destruction through "mountain-top removal" mining and imposing hideously dangerous working conditions that culminated in the death of 29 miners in the Upper Big Branch mine, now faces t...
Eklavya: Re: Lying, Cheating, Stealing?
Forum Post, January, 23 2013
Anil Eklavya
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And, by the way, I don't agree either with the idea that Chomsky is dour and devoid of humour. He may not be the most humorous person in the world (I am sure he is not even trying to be that), but his writings and speeches have more and ...
Eklavya: Lying, Cheating, Stealing?
Forum Post, January, 23 2013
Anil Eklavya
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Frankly speaking, I do not know much about Aaron Swartz as a person, so I am not sure what to make of this 'tribute'. What I do know is that the matter about JSTOR and MIT and the related prosecution is a pariticulary grotesque symptom of ...
Goodrich: Cause
Forum Post, January, 22 2013
John Goodrich
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IMO, the Arab Spring uprisings were set off by the widespread poverty and lack of economic equity and opportunity under capitalism. The Arab Spring societies are totalitarian in their thinking . Totalitarian rule is what they prefer in gov...
Brix: Great analysis, but wrong conclusion,
Forum Post, January, 22 2013
Zog Brix
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because, on the contrary, we should be worried about the rise of the extreme Right. The modern European history teaches us that when Europe faces economic troubles that its political parties cannot resolve, the extreme right or some form of Righti...
Rissler: "a pervasive pessimism"
Forum Post, January, 21 2013
Michael Rissler
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When Danny writes, "In conversations with a dozen Democratic politicians, with a few exceptions, there is a pervasive pessimism about the next several years. Almost all requested anonymity, not out of fear, they say, but to avoid giving solac...
Brix: I am not convinced.
Forum Post, January, 21 2013
Zog Brix
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Sure, the gap between the commands/policy from the top and situation on the ground; the ambiguous nature of orders; the need of the presidents to win wars, and the fear and youth of American soldiers were factors that partially explain the genocid...
Morelli: What to Do?
Forum Post, January, 21 2013
Ben Morelli
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Thanks for the article Roger. As an activist, is there any positive effect that you can see us having on the region? Or a chance of helping the Touareg people? It seems that you have little respect for the current government of...
Banerjee: President Obama, I Shall Still Support You
Blog Post, January, 20 2013
Partha Banerjee
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Congratulations, Mr. President Barack Obama, on your second term. If you are interested to know why I shall still support you, here’s my personal oath.
Norton: Obama's Inauguration
Blog Post, January, 20 2013
Gregory Alan Norton
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Comment on President's Inauguration
Weber: I respectfully disagree
Forum Post, January, 18 2013
Mark Weber
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You have long been, in my opinion, the best journalist in the world reporting on and writing about the Middle East. However, I disagree with you on this issue. I often contribute to online discussions under a pseudonym, a practice I started at m...
Valentino:
Forum Post, January, 18 2013
Joseph Valentino
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growing up, going to catholic grade school i learned 2 things primarily 1) all authority is arbitrary 2) never obey i also became aware at a very young age that most adults believe what is obvious utter nonsense things haven't really change...
Valentino:
Forum Post, January, 18 2013
Joseph Valentino
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chomsky is hardly 'dour' or 'humorless' even his professional linguistic work is laced throughout with subtle humour what is absent in chomsky's work is lighthearted buffoonery for that, one can watch cable tv
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.
Yearwood: Re:
Forum Post, January, 18 2013
Kelvin Yearwood
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A rather tired and unhelpful comment, Joseph. I entirely agree with the comment: "The issues of democracy and sexism are not separate, but inextricably linked." Isn't the problem that the SWP has a heirarchical party struc...
Kavanagh: God Is On Their Side: No Regrets for America's Jihad Wars
Blog Post, January, 18 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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No force in the world has done more than the government of the United States to create a radical global jihad army.
patterson: Your courageous eloquence
Forum Post, January, 17 2013
george patterson
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You are a wonderful, courageous and eloquent chap, and your charisma is inspiring by your extraordinary gift to tell the truth with your lyrical, poetic journalism. Thank you for your noble, golden heart!
Khan: The US culture of power and domination
Forum Post, January, 17 2013
Nasir Khan
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What Obama has done or is doing is in line with the American political culture whose basis lies in power and domination. But any lip service by the U.S. power elites to the so-called ‘American values’ and ‘promoting democracy&rsq...
Emersberger: To HRW re Venezuela and International Norms for Dissent
Blog Post, January, 17 2013
Joe Emersberger
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To HRW re Venezuela and International Norms for Dissent
Stern: Well George, you woke up at last!
Forum Post, January, 16 2013
Jerome Stern
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"..it strikes me that the entire structure of neoliberal thought is a fraud. .... This has nothing to do with economics. It has everything to do with power." It's taken him some time to see this, but better now than later (or n...
Reiter: What could enable a Peercommony
Forum Post, January, 16 2013
I.N. Reiter
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I must confess, I only flew over a few of the discussion pieces and won´t be able to do more than that for a certain time, but I think what many progressive and socially orientated people in Germany have in mind, when they talk about enablin...
Levy: Up to half of all food is wasted
Blog Post, January, 16 2013
Gabriel Levy
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Up to half of all food is wasted, a new report says. This suggests that it is the way food is produced, for agri-business and supermarkets' profits - rather than food consumption or population growth as such - that pushes at the earth's natural li...
Kavanagh: Ray McGovern's pension
Forum Post, January, 15 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Regarding Ray McGovern "drawing his CIA pension": In fact, he almost lost it for his dissident activities. From the bio on his website: "As an act of conscience, on March 2, 2006 Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation ...
Kavanagh: See McGovern's page on this
Forum Post, January, 15 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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See the page on McGovern's website regardng the Fordham incident: http://www.raymcgovern.com/Ray_McGovern/Fordham.html
Valentino:
Forum Post, January, 15 2013
Joseph Valentino
Valentino's ZSpace page
i've looked for gender equality in the world around me my entire life i've rarely seen it men are, in general, physically, emotionally, and intellectually inferior to women in almost every case
Kavanagh: Sticks and Drones, and Company Men: The Selective Outrage of the Liberal Caste
Blog Post, January, 15 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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The dominant strategy of liberal cate has becom to pick easy, loud rhetorically crude reactionary targets to demonize, while embracing the pernicious, but smooth and rhetorically sophisticated liberal imperialists whose work the commentators, and ...
Bybee: Who will replace Hilda Solis?
Blog Post, January, 14 2013
Roger Bybee
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Hilda Solis has suddenly stepped down as Labor Secretary. What are the major challenges facing the new yet-to-be-chosen Secretary?
Bybee: Who will replace Hilda Solis?
Blog Post, January, 14 2013
Roger Bybee
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Hilda Solis has suddenly stepped down as Labor Secretary. What are the major challenges facing the new yet-to-be-chosen Secretary?
