May 2013
98 posts
zoelhilditch: Boots On The Ground →
zoelhilditch:
I performed with The OMR Theatre Lab on Saturday 18th May in “Boots On The Ground” – a devised theatre piece focusing of war and media corruption. I want to share this incredible experience and the concept behind the show.
THESE VOICES NEED TO BE HEARD.
About OMR Theatre…
Emma Goldman - Marriage and Love - Anarchism and... →
The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.
Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the result of...
Chris Hedges: Rise Up or Die - Truthdig →
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We...
The MSM's 'Seminal Omissions': The Rich Get Richer... →
auntieimperial:
This AP Wire piece makes no mention of Boeing’s involvement in ANYTHING Military-Industrial. Perhaps, like Halliburton’s transfer of Pulsed Neutron Generators (dual use) to Iraq and Libya during the 90s, Boeing has shifted that reportage to their (snigger) “Logging Subsidiary”. For recent information on the unmentioned Drone/UAV end of Boeing’s business see April 24, 2013, 12...
“Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s...”
– Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?
(via rcabbasi)
VIDEO: From Boston to Pakistan, Pentagon Officials... →
democracynow:
In a Senate hearing today, Pentagon officials claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Watch this 8-minute video or read the full transcript.
TFI Daily News: History Lessons the West Refuses... →
newstfionline:
By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, May 13, 2013
In the aftermath of the First World War, Britain and France famously created the modern Middle East by carving up what had been the Ottoman Empire. The borders of new states such as Iraq and Syria were determined in keeping with British and…
TFI Daily News: Despair in rebel-held Syria as war... →
newstfionline:
By Tom A. Peter, CS Monitor, May 14, 2013
Aleppo, Syria—Before war came to Aleppo, Syria, Abu Anas was a well-to-do landscape architect who paid a considerable sum to send his children to private school. Now an opposition fighter, he spends his time away from the front line preparing his three…
As Jews we say "Birthright" trips must end →
thepeacefulterrorist:
As the summer months approach, thousands of young Jews from more than 60 countries prepare to participate in the Taglit-Birthright program. Since 1999, Birthright has brought 340,000 young Jews to Israel on free ten-day trips. In the midst of the fervor to sign up for this bi-annual program, we have launched the website Renounce Birthright (renouncebirthright.org) with the...
Veganarchist: On the topic of gendered slurs... →
shitstraightwhiteguyssay:
like: bitch, cunt, twat, pussy When you insult a woman with one of those words, you insult her fundamental identity (being a woman) at it’s very core. When you insult a man with one of those words, you insult him by associating him with women and/or conflating…
FrancesGrayWilde: frangwilde: The moments of our... →
frangwilde:
The moments of our love
are like flashes of gold
slyly stolen from under the nose
of happiness’ jealous guardian.
With all the lack of a full light,
with all the pleasure
of forbidden sensations.
In spite of all the misery
so tightly coiling
around my heart,
I lean on…
Half Full
splintersandmilkshakes:
He loves me
half as much
as I love him
yet that does
not deter
my whole heart
from exhausting
its rhythm
with every fluid ounce
of poetic abandon.
“One of the cruellest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...”
– Douglas Coupland (via sophie-amelie)
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they...”
– Anaïs Nin. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
“In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch,...”
– Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness.
perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color:
“…The actual issue is that black people aren’t often allowed to play full and complete characters, and an antagonist who isn’t...
semajrah: ONCE UPON DISTant time →
semajrah:
Once upon distant time
By james a. galgano It would never be this way so they ascertain with many adjectives to spare
Just one fleeting glimpse of you your angel eyes I longed to hypnotize me
Beyond compare I succumbed to the thought your love would surrender assured
While my aged…
Vagabond Mystic: I’m deleting my @facebook and... →
hermannview:
xxnephaelia-vondaemonenxx:
hermannview:
Some time ago, I permanently deleted my facebook but I was brought back on. Enough is enough. I am never coming back to Facebook. I don’t need to express myself with emotions prescribed by Facebook to tell people what I’m doing. They tell me:
If you do not…
ughhhh I wish I could quit :[ why is it so darned useful? D: I wouldn’t know...
Liberalism vs. Radicalism » Counterpunch: Tells... →
What’s the difference between liberalism and radicalism? Which is “better?” How is “better” determined?
Liberalism is the belief that the king has the right to rule and that when we want him to make decisions different from those he is currently making, we ask him respectfully, even firmly, but always recognizing his ultimate right to decide.
Radicalism is the belief that the king’s power is...
Will the real European Left stand up? | Left... →
Murray Smith responds to the European dimension of the ‘flutter’ articles. He is a member of the anti-capitalist party déi Lenk in Luxembourg, and of the Executive Board of the Party of the European Left.
Having followed with sympathy the emergence of Left Unity and the possibility of a new party of the Left being launched, I read with interest the two-part article by an anonymous figure, who...
The Joy of Revolution (contents) →
“We can comprehend this world only by contesting it as a whole. . . . The root of the prevailing lack of imagination cannot be grasped unless one is able to imagine what is lacking, that is, what is missing, hidden, forbidden, and yet possible, in modern life.”
—Situationist International(1)
Utopia or bust
Never in history has there been such a glaring contrast between what could be and what...
Do You Hear the People Sing?:... →
captainplanetspartypants:
Australia’s tourism industry produces almost as much (84.2% of) revenue as the mining industry ($102bn compared to $121.1bn), there’s not as much of a difference as the mining industry would have you think. Not to mention that around half of the total…
Platform | www.socialism.com →
amodernmanifesto:
THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY IS a revolutionary, socialist feminist organization, dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers’ democracy that will guarantee full economic, social, political, and legal equality to women, people of color, gays, and all who are exploited, oppressed, and repelled by the profit system and its offshoot — imperialism.
FOR...
ASIO should stop harassing activists | Green Left... →
amodernmanifesto:
By Patrick Harrison
I received a knock on the door on April 16 from two members of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, better known as ASIO.
The two told me they would like to have a conversation. When I asked what they wanted to speak about, they told me they were doing their job — protecting “national security” — and had a few questions about my involvement in...
A dangerous time for Europe and democracy →
This month Searchlight is devoting eight pages to the threat to democracy in Greece. At this time all those who care about combating Nazism and hate should come together to ensure postwar history in Europe is not repeated, with the destruction of whole sections of society such as under the rule of the Colonels in Greece from 1967 to 1974 and the mass genocidal killings in the Balkans in the early...
