Big Brother - fascist TV
(NB some of these points have been made beautifully before, I now recall!)When historians of the future are describing the inexorable deterioration towards fascism occurring in the first half of the...
View ArticleThe elite is hunkering down for a chaotic future
The behaviour of the elite bears out the theory that they know what's up re climate change and peak oil, and have decided that the best policy is to cement their control both domestically (via "terror"...
View ArticleRIP, ameen
That boy will remember that hand on his chin forever, his mother dying, going, lost to him, losing his sun, his earth. His mother looking at him with such concern, worried about him, she's dying and...
View Article"The gloves are off"
The War on Terror is a war on humanity (by capital).Imperialists can't defeat Hezbollah, or "terrorists", which are created in response and resistance to imperialist aggression, by further imperialist...
View ArticleThe megamachine
Via Le Colonel Chabert, by Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly:Israeli spokespersons are steadfastly driving home the idea of two distinct and incompatible cultures, two civilisations, two worlds. If the...
View Articlelife and its complement
Life is continually anew and renew, and yet it confronts forces, in structure, (and social dynamics which produce and engineer that structure, inform its direction and its orientation) which are...
View ArticleHezbollah history & background
Helena Cobben: (my tags in italics)Hezbullah wear suits and have public relations officersOn my first visit to Hizbullah last fall, I was welcomed byMohamad Afif, the head of the party’s...
View ArticleWhy I am a materialist - JBS Haldane
JBS Haldane, 1940:Mankind is up against a very difficult situation. We have dealt with a great mass of problems in the past by scientific thinking--that is to say, materialistic thinking. We try to...
View ArticleA call to evolution
(text of a presentation I'm to give soon, to an inter-faith group)What is global warming, and what causes it? What are its effects likely to be?How we can counteract it? Both by making changes in our...
View ArticleOil, war, the dollar and recession/depression = repression
Bob Chapman in Goldseek (via Justin Raimondo's most recent in Counterpunch)We also believe monetary authorities have no problem with crude oil at $75.00 a barrel. Ex-wars, invasions and occupations oil...
View Articlethe clash of civilisations
Throughout, the myth of modernity has buried the reality of what it truly brings and portends and constitutes. Always taking the initiative, with its prioritisation of the superficial, of the...
View ArticleAt 6 degrees rise (inevitable by 2100), sea levels will rise 60 feet
Climate change is about as severe, and we are about as able to do anything about it, as world poverty. All the statistics which are the story of "elsewhere" at the moment - of 800 million people going...
View ArticleImmortal Technique on Revolution
Speaking at the South Central farm. Part I is available here.
View ArticleCapitalism and faith, some early thoughts
Following Lenin's, and John "Sweet Nothing" Pistelli's, fantastic pieces on this subject, here are some addled and scrambled thoughts on faith and liberalism.The nature of real substantial oppositions...
View ArticleManufacturing solipsism
(for the benefit of any poor, lost, misguided individuals who read me and not Le Colonel Chabert!)The Individual, in a materialist perspective, is not the isolated Vitruvian man, infused with a demon...
View ArticleJoel Kovel, author of Enemy of Nature, on capitalism and ecology
Reflections on September 11November, 2001 The grim shadow over our future cast on September 11, 2001 occurred between the composition of The Enemy of Nature and its release, and could not be...
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