Below, for the local newspaper, the Newport News Times. (without the images, etc.) Below that, more on this reprehensible genocidal black death Black Friday day! The First No-Thanks Thanksgiving Trigger Warning (noun): a statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc., alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains […]
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With its inherent cyclicity, history returns Europe to the dark ages. In the literal sense, in the coming winter, Europeans are likely to face rolling blackouts to ration their consumption, and have to watch their cities plunge into darkness. In a figurative sense, the whole world will be able to observe the terrible consequences for […]
Much of the legacy media “revolution” hysteria is being dismissed out of hand I speak to Iranian academic and historian Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Tehran about the recent legacy media explosion of “revolution” and “regime change” propaganda after the tragic death of 22 year old Masha Amini. Marandi dismisses much of the Western hyperbole and we talk about Ukraine, Russia, […]
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The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths that remain imprinted on my mind. LBJ and 14 (b) Even before classes began in 1963, […]
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. UK’s political musical chairs This week saw the UK’s Conservative Party playing yet another party game – and when the music stopped it was …
Angry road users resorted to dragging eco-protesters out of the road this morning as Just Stop Oil blocked a busy London High Street, stopping a fire engine and cars carrying sick people from getting through.
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With ambulances blocked by Just Stop Oil protestors from getting to hospital and motorists taking matters into their own hands, when are the police going to stop standing meekly by and do their job and clear the highway?
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There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some […]
So how does what's going on in Sri Lanka affect all of us worldwide? And what can we do about it? Today, let's examine the roots of the Sri Lankan crisis and explore how that crisis affects us all.
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Summary of Part I In Part I, I argued that the relationship between political subordination and revolution is ill-conceived if framed in a dualistic way. We are either totally submissive or at the other extreme there is revolution. However, following the work of James C. Scott’s great book Domination and the Arts of Resistance I claimed that […]
