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Blog Post Podur: The next generation of colombian paramilitaries

Blog Post, February, 07 2007 Justin Podur
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Things are moving fast in Colombia. I'll try to get some things out here over the next few days. I noted a few days ago that one of the key witnesses in the current Salvatore Mancuso hearings, Yolanda Izquierdo, was murdered. Just a little late...

Blog Post Podur: The next generation of colombian paramilitaries

Blog Post, February, 07 2007 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

Things are moving fast in Colombia. I'll try to get some things out here over the next few days. I noted a few days ago that one of the key witnesses in the current Salvatore Mancuso hearings, Yolanda Izquierdo, was murdered. Just a little late...

Blog Post Podur: Robot counterinsurgencies

Blog Post, February, 04 2007 Justin Podur
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I picked up a copy of Harper's on the road. Two articles caught my interest. The first, by Edward Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on counterinsurgency, and the other by freelance writer Steve Featherstone, on "the...

Blog Post Podur: Robot counterinsurgencies

Blog Post, February, 04 2007 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

I picked up a copy of Harper's on the road. Two articles caught my interest. The first, by Edward Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on counterinsurgency, and the other by freelance writer Steve Featherstone, on "the...

Blog Post Podur: The second phase of Plan Colombia

Blog Post, February, 01 2007 Justin Podur
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So, we've had seven years of Plan Colombia which was initiated, famously, with 1.3 billion from the US and an additional 4-5 billion of Colombians' money. The money paid for helicopters, mainly, and other military hardware and support to the Colom...

Blog Post Podur: The second phase of Plan Colombia

Blog Post, February, 01 2007 Justin Podur
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So, we've had seven years of Plan Colombia which was initiated, famously, with 1.3 billion from the US and an additional 4-5 billion of Colombians' money. The money paid for helicopters, mainly, and other military hardware and support to the Colom...

Blog Post Podur: The Children of Men

Blog Post, January, 30 2007 Justin Podur
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Watched "Children of Men" tonight. For those who don't know, it's one of those British dystopia movies - I think 28 Days Later and V for Vendetta fall into the category. It's set in 2027, in a kind of business-as-usual bleak scenario, with an ongo...

Blog Post Podur: The Children of Men

Blog Post, January, 30 2007 Justin Podur
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Watched "Children of Men" tonight. For those who don't know, it's one of those British dystopia movies - I think 28 Days Later and V for Vendetta fall into the category. It's set in 2027, in a kind of business-as-usual bleak scenario, with an ongo...

Blog Post Podur: Uri Avnery, Israeli Apartheid...

Blog Post, January, 25 2007 Justin Podur
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I read Uri Avnery's piece in Counterpunch on Israeli Apartheid, cautioning against the use of the Apartheid analogy. Stephen Friedman and Virginia Tilley replied, providing interesting facts from the record on South African Apartheid. When I r...

Blog Post Podur: Uri Avnery, Israeli Apartheid...

Blog Post, January, 25 2007 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

I read Uri Avnery's piece in Counterpunch on Israeli Apartheid, cautioning against the use of the Apartheid analogy. Stephen Friedman and Virginia Tilley replied, providing interesting facts from the record on South African Apartheid. When I r...

Blog Post Podur: From Oaxaca

Blog Post, December, 06 2006 Justin Podur
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I'm reproducing here a communique from my friend Pablo Leal, who is in Oaxaca now and has been based there for about three years - at least... I worked closely with him for a few years starting in early 2001, but I am glad that the movements in Me...

Blog Post Podur: From Oaxaca

Blog Post, December, 06 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

I'm reproducing here a communique from my friend Pablo Leal, who is in Oaxaca now and has been based there for about three years - at least... I worked closely with him for a few years starting in early 2001, but I am glad that the movements in Me...

Blog Post Podur: A little surprise in Canadian politics... and other stuff.

Blog Post, December, 03 2006 Justin Podur
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Just when I think that Canada is a bleak field of endlessly boring events, something like this happens to perk my interest. Like many Canadians, I got duped and depressed by the Liberal leadership race, watching what was being presented constan...

Blog Post Podur: A little surprise in Canadian politics... and other stuff.

Blog Post, December, 03 2006 Justin Podur
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Just when I think that Canada is a bleak field of endlessly boring events, something like this happens to perk my interest. Like many Canadians, I got duped and depressed by the Liberal leadership race, watching what was being presented constan...

Blog Post Podur: Worst Movie Ever?

Blog Post, November, 20 2006 Justin Podur
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Now, I can't honestly say that "Borat" was the worst movie ever because, well, I didn't get through the entire movie. By the 40th intolerable minute of it, I walked out. Let me say up front - I am no prude. And while I am sensitive to racism an...

Blog Post Podur: Worst Movie Ever?

Blog Post, November, 20 2006 Justin Podur
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Now, I can't honestly say that "Borat" was the worst movie ever because, well, I didn't get through the entire movie. By the 40th intolerable minute of it, I walked out. Let me say up front - I am no prude. And while I am sensitive to racism an...

Blog Post Podur: Oaxaca!

Blog Post, November, 03 2006 Justin Podur
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I have been meaning to put together some resources and a little timeline on Oaxaca, mainly so that I could sort out what is happening for myself. In the meantime though, I would send you all to the NarcoNews, friends who have been doing great work...

Blog Post Podur: Oaxaca!

Blog Post, November, 03 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

I have been meaning to put together some resources and a little timeline on Oaxaca, mainly so that I could sort out what is happening for myself. In the meantime though, I would send you all to the NarcoNews, friends who have been doing great work...

Blog Post Podur: Liberating the Word in Colombia

Blog Post, October, 30 2006 Justin Podur
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This week I'll be participating in a tour by one of Colombia's best journalists and one of the leaders of Colombia's indigenous movement. The journalist is Hollman Morris, in Canada to receive a 'free expression award' of the type normally given t...

Blog Post Podur: Liberating the Word in Colombia

Blog Post, October, 30 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

This week I'll be participating in a tour by one of Colombia's best journalists and one of the leaders of Colombia's indigenous movement. The journalist is Hollman Morris, in Canada to receive a 'free expression award' of the type normally given t...

Blog Post Podur: What a grim field (Canadian politics and Israel/Palestine)

Blog Post, October, 16 2006 Justin Podur
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A brief report from the stomach-turning exercise of watching Canadian politics. The liberal leadership race is unfolding and all candidates are competing to bend lower in obesiance to racism and contempt against Palestinians. How bizarre that Mich...

Blog Post Podur: What a grim field (Canadian politics and Israel/Palestine)

Blog Post, October, 16 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

A brief report from the stomach-turning exercise of watching Canadian politics. The liberal leadership race is unfolding and all candidates are competing to bend lower in obesiance to racism and contempt against Palestinians. How bizarre that Mich...

Blog Post Podur: Verbal self-defense 2

Blog Post, August, 26 2006 Justin Podur
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I wanted to say a few more things about Suzette Haden Elgin's system for 'verbal self-defense'. The central idea she presents is that we can use language to create an abusive environment, or we can use language to create a non-abusive environment....

Blog Post Podur: Verbal self-defense 2

Blog Post, August, 26 2006 Justin Podur
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I wanted to say a few more things about Suzette Haden Elgin's system for 'verbal self-defense'. The central idea she presents is that we can use language to create an abusive environment, or we can use language to create a non-abusive environment....

Blog Post Podur: Verbal Self-Defense and Leftists

Blog Post, August, 25 2006 Justin Podur
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I think political debates are often important. I would do more debates if I had appropriate venues. I engage in debates even when they are unpleasant. But I often get the feeling that they are unnecessarily unpleasant. The unpleasantness, in other...

Blog Post Podur: Verbal Self-Defense and Leftists

Blog Post, August, 25 2006 Justin Podur
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I think political debates are often important. I would do more debates if I had appropriate venues. I engage in debates even when they are unpleasant. But I often get the feeling that they are unnecessarily unpleasant. The unpleasantness, in other...

Blog Post Podur: The next phase of the war in Lebanon

Blog Post, August, 15 2006 Justin Podur
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So, I assume everyone understands that the war isn't over? And since the war isn't over, let's not talk yet about anyone having 'won'. The 'ceasefire resolution' was a joke. It was a resolution that was based on Hizbullah surrendering. The onl...

Blog Post Podur: The next phase of the war in Lebanon

Blog Post, August, 15 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

So, I assume everyone understands that the war isn't over? And since the war isn't over, let's not talk yet about anyone having 'won'. The 'ceasefire resolution' was a joke. It was a resolution that was based on Hizbullah surrendering. The onl...

Blog Post Podur: N. and the Memory Wall (On a day in the future)

Blog Post, August, 13 2006 Justin Podur
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N., a young Palestinian/Israeli Jew, was late for her meeting with her friend H., the child of Palestinian Muslim refugees who had returned from Lebanon on a bus a few years before. N. was still preparing her gift for H., a hat to cover his premat...

Blog Post Podur: N. and the Memory Wall (On a day in the future)

Blog Post, August, 13 2006 Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page

N., a young Palestinian/Israeli Jew, was late for her meeting with her friend H., the child of Palestinian Muslim refugees who had returned from Lebanon on a bus a few years before. N. was still preparing her gift for H., a hat to cover his premat...

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