January 2012
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The State of the Union
Two best pieces of Analysis I have seen: State of the Union: Will the US be Saved by its Military? (Mark LeVine, UC Irvine) http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/2012125102724360795.html And the article that follows Home Subscribe Forward this email Contact usDonate Militarism mixed with empty liberal rhetoric State of the Union address 2012 President Obama during State of the...
Jan 27th
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“The Republican Primary is the biggest compeitition of ignorance and idiocy that...”
– Fidel Castro, Wise Words
Jan 26th
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Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard rushed to... →
Jan 26th
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“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
– Mao (though I would have to say I would add DIRECT bloodshed, cause US policies sure cause a bit of death)
Jan 25th
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This is a phenominally fucking important video: 13... →
Jan 24th
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“The effort to take Iran’s 2.6 million barrels of oil per day off...”
– EU approves Iranian Oil Ban - Jazeera So wait a moment.  More profit for Western oil companies.  Death and starvtion for the Iranian people (and profits for anyone foreign middlemen selling to them), and a ban on hard currency ownership for the Iranian Bank.  Meaning greater western Imperialist...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Email from Oakland Police Chief to Mayor re: 19%... →
Jan 23rd
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“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady! I am all the contrary of a...”
– Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain, together at last →
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Carbon dioxide emissions show record jumpLatest... →
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Verbal Resistance: Israeli military bombs French... →
verbalresistance: Israeli military bombs French consulate in Gaza, causing a diplomat’s wife to have a miscarriage as well as injuries to himself and his daughter. France make some justified fuss, media covers it somewhat originally, European countries urge caution and ask for explanations ‘to clarify…
Jan 16th
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EXCELLENT analysis of the background behind... →
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Lebanon's intelligence war →
With reports of the CIA shutting down in Beirut, Al Jazeera explores the extent of intelligence infiltration in Lebanon.
Jan 14th
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“the Great Recession of 2008 was in several respects a major turning point. In...”
– http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111130121556567265.html
Jan 13th
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“India’s economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the...”
– http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/11/20111130133912895777.html
Jan 13th
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“Distinguished Harvard professors write that Palestinians are people who bleed...”
– Noam Chomsky (via jahanzebjz)
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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No society in history has imprisoned as many...
Jan 11th
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“In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes...”
– http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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“in recent decades, nearly one-fifth of the world’s population has regressed....”
– The International Monetary Fund
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Spanish superspy Francisco Paesa, 75, gets out of... →
Sierra Leone escapade follows a lifetime of intrigue including years on Interpol’s ‘most wanted’ list
Jan 9th
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Paris show unveils life in human zoo  →
Sense of shock as exhibition reveals how people were displayed in freak shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Jan 8th
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“In the spring of 1968, Gilbert (An SDSer and Weatherman) was called before the...”
– Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Kindle Locations 437-442). Kindle Edition. 
Jan 8th
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“By linking American activists and Vietnamese rebels, Potter spoke to the New...”
– Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Kindle Locations 361-366). Kindle Edition.  I wish I saw more internationalism in the Occupy Movement. 
Jan 7th
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“In governing itself by means of participatory democracy, SDS sought to model the...”
– Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Kindle Location 332). Kindle Edition. 
Jan 7th
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“It is time to stop fearing ideology and lay the basis for a new one, more...”
– SDS, More power than we know.
Jan 6th
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“Trails of trouble, Roads of Battles, Paths of Victory, We Shall Walk.”
– Paths of Victory, Bob Dylan
Jan 6th
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Thai Facebookers warned not to 'like'... →
Country’s strict laws against insulting the monarch have been used to jail a man for 20 years for sending text messages
Jan 5th
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“In the United States in the early 1960s, young, gifted thinkers, confessing a...”
– Talk about paralells of today Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Jan 5th
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Germany, Europe's green leader →
An interesting/thoughtful look at policies pursued by Germany to move towards a sustainable, energy independent model (and a look at how much of this differs to decisions made by the US)
Jan 3rd
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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The world's 225 richest individuals, of whom 60...
occupyallstreets: (Source)
Jan 1st
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