Better than any of my posts about the atrocities committed by the state of Israel to further US domination, the work of Frontline (the English-language Indian bi-weekly, not the US TV show) this past edition provides thorough explanation of, as they so accurately put it, Israel's Terror. I highly recommend you all read it at flonnet.com

Just so everyone knows, Israel has basically declared the south of Lebanon an free fire zone in the finest tradition of the US invasion of Vietnam. Specifically, while broadcasting over the radio and dropping leaflets to the effect that all residents of the area should leave their homes while also declaring that it will fire on any trucks driving ( Read more... )

Most of you have probably heard about Israel's recent reinvasion of the Gaza Strip, ostensibly because of a single captured (though the mainstream media often refer to this as a 'kidnapping') Israeli soldier. It is not mentioned that almost ten thousand Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, many, if not most, were truly kidnapped, being ( Read more... )

I really, really, really want someone with a rational, remotely materialist analytical perspective to socialize with at Evergreen, ie not a professor. I'm really tired of all the fucking 'post-modern', post-structuralist, cultural/psychological/NOT materialist bullshit that is what everyone is soooo steeped in. I thought it was an accomplishment ( Read more... )

Not just Obi-Wan, but with R2-D2 a close second. This, and the great argument I just had with a LaRouchie that invaded the bike shop made my day.

Your results:
You are Obi-Wan Kenobi
Obi-Wan Kenobi
70%
R2-D2
64%
Luke Skywalker
64%
Qui-Gon Jinn
64%
Yoda
64%
Boba Fett
63%
Chewbacca
62%
Princess Leia
61%
Lando Calrissian
61%
C-3PO
58%

You ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you were at the demostrations yesterday, but I understadn they went on all around the country, so its fully possible any of you could have been at one (except Joanna, but I'm sure you've found plenty of exciting protests to attend over there anyways). In any case, the march in Seattle was amazing. Estimates range from 15,000 ( Read more... )

Here are some statistics, most of them from the UN, which while more concerned with humanity than, say, the WTO, is still generally supportive of the neoliberal project. Perhaps this will finally drive home the point that no matter how much abstraction and theoretical bullshit mainstream economics pumps out, reality will continue to be reality.

But yet another little bit of information fit all to well into my fears about the state of our society. This piece by FAIR, at http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2856, is really wuite damning. The standard liberal refrain about the media is that they are not the thralls of the ( Read more... )

Yep, 'free' markets definitely foster democracy. The Phillipines under went neo-liberal reforms over the past couple decades, and the wonderful result is the presidency of Gloria Arroyo. Even the New York Times has realized its oppressive nature. It sure worked great, 'cause now the military is basically enforcing martial law. It's funny. Market ( Read more... )

Every day, the signs get clearer and clearer. NPR,for instance, which has always been the branch of the mainstream media delegated with mollifying center leftists by maintaining a reputation of 'objectivity' and liberalism, has now taken to regularly using the phrase 'anti-American' to describe foreign protesters, even those following Rice in ( Read more... )