The State Of Our Economy Is No Accident

It is crippled by design.

Cheers To Those Who Are With Us!

And peace to all.

When In Britain, Go To The Light!

Peace Pledge Union.

The Struggle Continues...

Lupe Fiasco:

Separate Realities

There are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others and then there is what actually takes place on Planet Earth. It is distressing in the extreme when the individuals vying to be elected to the highest office in the land inhabit a fantasy world and disseminate a false and defamatory narrative in order to achieve their political ambitions. But that is the current state of American politics.

"Left" Has Very Little Meaning Anymore

“Left” propagandists for escalation of imperialist war

Matthew 5: 38-48

Although I am not a Christian, I consider these commandments to be binding upon me:

38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

I wonder how many Christians consider themselves to be bound by these same commandments. Very few, I should think. Very few indeed.

Go figure...

Jewish Voice for Peace: justice, equality in Israel/Palestine

Will The Sun Ever Set On This Empire?

Pentagon announces worldwide expansion of US military bases

Connect The Dots...

Imperialism, the “war on terror” and anti-Muslim hysteria - World Socialist Web Site

Grew Out His Beard...

As a sign of "radicalization."

Conflicting Evidence

FBI calls San Bernardino mass shooting a terrorist attack - World Socialist Web Site

If Only...

"Who does control the world?" - Noam Chomsky - BBC interview 2003

Is This Thanksgiving?

The Future

World's Most Dangerous Animal

The white, straight, Christian, middle class male, worried about losing his privileges...

And tickin' like a time bomb...

The John Brown Syndrome

Those who take up arms on behalf of the oppressed may have admirable intentions but their methods are unsound. It is time, once again, to reiterate the Gandhian aphorism that "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

And this is true as well for those who, like Nat Turner, are themselves victims of oppression.


The way of Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Ghaffar Khan is the only way to achieve justice in this world.

Le pire n'est jamais certain: Vos guerres, nos morts

Le pire n'est jamais certain: Vos guerres, nos morts: Fragments .  Ce sont les nôtres qui sont morts la nuit dernière. À la terrasse d’un restaurant, dans un bar, dans...

The Struggle Continues

Popular Palestinian resistance against Israeli oppression enters its second month

The Post-Modern Whirlwind

French Lives Matter

Absolutely. And yet, when one looks at the media coverage that Friday's attacks in Paris (11/13/15) have received and compare it to the coverage (or complete lack thereof) of similar tragedies that have occurred routinely in the Occupied Territories, Iraq, Syria, the Yemen, and Afghanistan, one cannot escape the impression that French lives seem to matter more than Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni and Afghan.

Why is that?

The inability of the North Atlantic powers to acknowledge the moral legitimacy of this question--or to acknowledge it at all--and to respond appropriately to such moral inquiry is the reason that we now find ourselves in the beginning stages of the Third World War.

The exportation of terror from Iraq and Syria to North Atlantic imperial metropoles is a declaration on the part of individuals who believe (not without reason) that their own lives and the lives of their loved ones do not matter to the inhabitants of those metropoles. Their "message" to the North Atlantic world is as simple and direct as its mode of delivery is gruesome:

If our lives do not count, then neither do yours; if our personal safety and security can be breached at will, so can yours.

Unlike the previous World Wars, World War III is not a struggle among nation-states for territory but the blood-curdling cry of the perennially insulted and horrifically wounded for dignity.

Will their tactics win for them the dignity they crave? No. They are playing a zero sum game. But that game is not one of their own invention; rather, it is a game devised in foreign capitols by politicians and generals, corporate CEOs, ideologues, and war profiteers.

It is in this diminished sense that Benjamin Barber's 1995 book Jihad vs. McWorld accurately portrays the nature of this conflict: in their desperate bid for human recognition, the "jihadis" demonstrate their willingness to sacrifice what humanity remains to them; but "McWorld" is incapable of providing them with the recognition that they crave--for it sacrificed its own humanity to a murderous greed long ago--indeed, at its very foundation.


And so this will be the tenor of our lives going forward into the foreseeable future: strike and counter-strike with the humanity of all sacrificed upon the altars of blind desperation turned violent and a boundless and overwhelmingly violent greed that does not care a damn who gets hurt so long as there is money to be made.

This Is World War III--And The U.S. Started It

France declares state of emergency after terrorist attacks kill 140 in Paris - World Socialist Web Site

History Is The Record Of Unintended Consequences

It all started so innocently...For many of those involved, it was just a lark...The last Superpower invaded a relatively defenseless country under a false pretext for reasons personal to the President of that Superpower and members of his inner circle...What could possibly go wrong?

Well, how about: IS/ISIS/ISIL or whatever the latest acronym may be?

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” Hosea 8:7.

The Language of the Colonized Mind

A Plague Upon the House of Erdogan

Turkey’s Election: A Plague Upon the House of Erdogan

Black-Palestinian Solidarity

Black-Palestinian Solidarity | Home

O Canada!

Leftward ho!

THE GREAT MANDALA - Peter Yarrow

Top 1 Percent

Top 1 percent own more than half of world’s wealth

The Strange Death Of The Antiwar Movement

The strange death of the antiwar movement

Because All Men Are Brothers

The Mahatma And Ghaffar Khan

The End Of Democracy In Britain

The end of democracy in Britain - World Socialist Web Site

Dutch children apologize for terrorism

Dick Cheney Belongs in Prison, NOT on TV • Support the Iran Peace Accord...

The Mess They've Made Of Egypt

Murder most foul.

The Writing On The Wall

Turkey's AK Party should read it.

Cosmopolitanism

A well-written, thoughtful book by a humane presence in contemporary American philosophy: Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Truth

The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide

Scouting Report II

Scouting Report I

The Man He Killed

By Thomas Hardy.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Iranians are not obsessed with destroying Israel. Who knew?

Heads Should Roll At UIC

Un-be-lievable.

The Fiction Of A "Liberated" Iraq Continues To Unravel

Abadi announces reforms aimed at “decentralization” of Iraq

The Gratuitous Nuclear Attack On Japan

U.S. war crimes revisited.

Celebrating The Atomic Bomb

"What is deadly is not the much-discussed atomic bomb as this particular death-dealing machine. What has long since been threatening man with death, and indeed with the death of his own nature, is the unconditional character of mere willing in the sense of purposeful self-assertion in everything. What threatens man in his very nature is the willed view that man, by the peaceful release, transformation, storage, and channeling of the energies of physical nature, could render the human condition, man's being, tolerable for everybody and happy in all respects. But the peace of this peacefulness is merely the undisturbed continuing relentlessness of the fury of self-assertion which is resolutely self-reliant. What threatens man in his very nature is the view that this imposition of production can be ventured without any danger, as long as other interests besides--such as, perhaps, the interests of a faith--retain their currency. As though it were still possible for that essential relation to the whole of beings in which man is placed by the technological exercise of his will to find a separate abode in some side-structure which would offer more than a temporary escape into those self-deceptions among which we must count also the flight to the Greek gods! What threatens man in his very nature is the view that technological production puts the world in order, while in fact this ordering is precisely what levels every ordo, every rank, down to the uniformity of production, and thus from the outset destroys the realm from which any rank and recognition could possibly arise."

--Martin Heidegger, "What Are Poets For?" Tr. Albert Hofstadter.

Opiate Of The American Masses

In this book, Kelly Denton-Borhaug analyzes the way in which American Christianity supplies the Military-Industrial-Complex with the rhetorical and mythological resources it requires to "justify" War-Without-End to the American public.

A tour de force of theologically-informed rhetorical criticism.

But Then, In The UK, Totalitarianism Was Always Just Beneath The Surface

Nazism and the Royal family.

Totalitarianism

UK style.

After More Than A Half Century Of Non-Violent Non-Cooperation...

The great people of Cuba outlasted the will of the Empire to destroy them. Congratulations!

Guns, Guns, Guns!

Colorado.
Tennessee.

Lessons From Greece

Lessons from Greece: The pseudo-left in power

Greek Government Repudiates Results Of Austerity Referendum

Greek government approves brutal austerity measures in proposal to EU - World Socialist Web Site

And so it goes...

Hakim Bey

"Anarchist traditionalism."

E.U.-ism

The Greek "bailout."

Americanism

Michael Vlahos on our "high-church politics and sacred war."

Ten Years After (Alvin Lee) - I'd love to change the world

RUSSELL BRAND | Awakening Man

The "New" Egypt

This Is Not News

And there is no excuse for not thinking. So here is some thinking on the recently translated "Black Notebooks."

And, by the way, Thomas Jefferson was a racist. So let us disavow the Declaration of Independence.

Not A Pretty Picture

Desertification on the march.

Perhaps Mother Nature has the answer to her "human problem" after all...

2 Corinthians 11:14-15

The fanatical made-for-Vogue face of Netanyahu's racist government.

IMHO

Read more. Think more. Care more.

End the Occupation

Because, even in your worst, most bigoted moments, you know deep down that this is just crazy:

So end it. Now.

Writers Push Back Against PEN

Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and 143 other writers protest free speech award for Charlie Hebdo - World Socialist Web Site

Trouble In The Deep State?

And Now They Dare and Criticize El-Sisi on TV !?

Got That Right

Apartheid Redux

In Palestine.

The Last Word on Iraq

Jihad vs. McWorld

Imperialism Is As Imperialism Does

The Relationship of Capitalism to Imperialism Revisited

War abounds! Break the Silence! Join the Black is Back march on Washington Nov 3rd

Zionism Is Racism

Back in 1975, the U.N. General Assembly was capable of calling a spade a spade; but, in 1991, cowardice reared its pathetic head and U.N. Resolution 3379 was revoked by subsequent resolution 46/86.

The General Assembly may have suffered a failure of nerve but the GKS need not follow suit. Apartheid is as apartheid does and--regardless of where it is practiced--apartheid is a method of social control designed to accomplish racist ends. Ashkenazi Jews (N.B. the irony inherent in the name) are white European Jews. Their victims are brown-skinned Palestinians.

Let the message of Passover find its way into Zionist hearts and minds.