February 2011
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January 2011
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Watchfarhaaan:
ISRAELI SETTLERS’ ANGER AT PALESTINIANS HARVESTING ON PALESTINIAN LAND
Settlers uproot dozens of Palestinian olive trees; IDF lets settlers protest inside Palestinian village. Residents of the settlement of Shvut Rachel clashed with Palestinians picking olives in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, after the settlers held a march to protest the “security threat” posed by the harvest....
liberationfrequency asked: Not sure how I wasn't following you, but I just added you to the list!
Ⓐ Blogs for my followers to follow ☭
liberationfrequency:
Ok so seeing as people keep asking me to post links to blogs I follow, I figured I should probably get to it. Word of warning: Not all of these are just about Anarcho-syndicalism, but most of them center around far left politics and libertarian ideas… there are also some socialist/marxist ones thrown in there to keep things interesting. Enjoy.
http://tomasoski.tumblr.com/
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America's narcissism taints Egypt coverage →
soupsoup:
by Alex Pareene at Salon
America doesn’t really understand how to respond to a revolution. The demonstrations in Egypt have nothing to do with Tea Parties or Neo-Conservatives or Twitter or Facebook or Fox News. But don’t tell Americans!
The media is biased in favor of American action. People on CNN and people on Twitter both demand that Barack Obama and the State Department “do...
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Why Fuck the Police →
Criticism of opposition to the police usually falls into one of five categories. The first common argument is that the police, as our fellow workers, are also exploited members of the proletariat, and should therefore be our allies. Unfortunately, there is a vast gap between “should” and “is.” The police exist to enforce the will of the powerful; anyone who has not had a bad experience with them...
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smart, cunning and greedy (unless you got it in a... →
alexholzballs:
So, it stands to basis that anyone who is given MORE money is going to KEEP it.
Granted, there are a few wealthy people out there who are true philanderers. But, honestly, when you’re a CEO, you DON’T invest your money back into your business. If that was the case, would CEOs make an average of 364 times more than their average worker? And that’s AFTER tax deductions, the...
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The U.S' hypocrisy: Foreign aid to Egypt and... →
farhaaan:
More than 100 people have been killed during anti-government protests that have swept Egypt, according to a Reuters tally of reports from medical sources, hospitals and witnesses. [Reuters]
One of those killed was Mohamed Atef, shot in the head while demonstrating in…
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If corporations are people, why wasn't Merck... →
joft:
I missed this news last year when it came out:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-27/merck-paid-3-468-death-claims-to-resolve-vioxx-suits.html
Aside from corporations being able to pay their way above the law, what else can we learn from this? Well, if your relative dies because of a drug, make sure they die from a heart attack and not a stroke:
“The payments for fatal heart attacks...
James Connolly - Let Us Free Ireland! (1899)
From a friend: “relevant reading during a time when countries are having revolutions”
Let us free Ireland! Never mind such base, carnal thoughts as concern work and wages, healthy homes, or lives unclouded by poverty.
Let us free Ireland! The rackrenting landlord; is he not also an Irishman, and wherefore should we hate him? Nay, let us not speak harshly of our brother – yea,...
I'm starting to get really wary of language... →
this is great reading. Please click through and check it out.
tiaramerchgirl:
…mainly because it seems a little too easy.
Instead of engaging with points of view that are challenging to yours (or just even working from a very different perspective), instead of looking within yourself to see how you’re perpetuating and practicing discrimination and harm, all you have to do is…
Hear...
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I am from a third-world country. →
tiaramerchgirl:
I hope this isn’t an effort at trying to school me about economic inequalities in the countries of my origin, because…dude, I know. I saw it, lived it. It’s how I could be practically aristocratic in Bangladesh, upper-middle-class in Malaysia, and barely middle-class in Australia as a casually-employed artist whose familial privilege and money didn’t travel far.
In Bangladesh...
brochak-deactivated20110921-dea asked: It's amazing how nobody knows about the recent uprising in Tunisia. However the media is all over this Egypt stuff so all these kids are all for it. Just feeding off of the machine. Sigh. Also I really enjoy the blog. Keep up the good work.
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"I'm not racist" but white people sure do say that...
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ISAF drone goes down in Afghanistan →
verbalresistance:
Taliban militants say they have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in western Afghanistan.
The Taliban claim that they successfully targeted the aircraft on Friday in Gazra district of Herat province, the Afghan Islamic Press reported on Saturday.
However, ISAF dismissed the Taliban’s claim, saying the...
“Anarchism, with its spirit of daring and inquiry, its criticism of old standards...”
– Paul Avrich, The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States (via furrows)
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Companies bank on US wars in 2011 →
verbalresistance:
Defense companies are set to reap large profits in 2011 as they plan to produce war supplies demanded by the US and foreign governments’ war policies.
The three main defense contractors planning to take full advantage of the inordinate call for war toys include industry leader Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications Holdings, and Raytheon Company. “The United States spent...
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ShortFormBlog: Egypt: Some citizens so poor they... →
shortformblog:
“How can I go into the street and protest? I can barely survive.” While some go out to protest in Egypt, others stay at work. They have to. They can’t afford to stop working. The L.A. Times notes the disparity that’s keeping some away from the protests changing the character of the…
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I am from a third-world country. →
tiaramerchgirl:
…if you’re going to commit a massive fail by claiming that “if you’re in a third-world country I doubt you’d have internet access and a Tumblr” us third-worldies will come en masse and poke you in the eye.
Also? The first-world/third-world terms are deprecated. (Did you know it originally meant countries that were neutral during the Cold War?) Try terms like “developing”...
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Glenn Greenwald's take on Joe Lieberman →
Missed it during the SOTU, Egypt, and everything else going on lately.
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Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Backed Egyptian Uprising →
thenoobyorker:
woundedgalaxy:
teensfightingonyoutube:
bigopinion:
machines-repaired:
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
oh bollocks
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In the insultingly bad propaganda category…
The Telegraph is insulting, these are excerpts from...
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Uncertain Fate for Egypt’s US-Supplied Weapons... →
The weapons in the Egyptian military arsenal include F-16 fighter planes, attack helicopters, frigates, advanced Sidewinder and Hellfire missiles and Abrams battle tanks – purchased mostly with U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF).
The billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Egypt via FMF has remained gratis, says Dan Darling, Europe & Middle East Military Markets Analyst at Forecast...
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Pakistanis slam US killing of civilians →
Elsewhere in the developing world, more demonstrators rise up against an authoritarian and brutal regime!
Pakistanis have taken to the streets across the country to protest the US killing of civilians after a US consulate employee fatally shot two Pakistanis.
“We have come to protest the murder that Americans are committing against Pakistani citizens with drone attacks, with shooting innocent...
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PA Negotiator Erekat finally hits the mark -... →
verbalresistance:
After days of furiously shooting the messenger, (in truth, simply making public a privately held belief), the Palestinian Authority may, finally, be seeing the real value of the Palestinian Papers.
Talking to the Guardian, Saeb Erekat nails the key issue:
“What should be taken from these documents is that Palestinian negotiators have consistently come to the table in...
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News priorities and Egypt
Journalism has a method which determines how it’s practiced as a craft. Part of that method is drafting stories in a particular format, with relevant information presented in a specific order, especially in the almighty lede (or lead sentence):
Who: Arguable the most important aspect. Who is the story about? Protesters.
What: The obvious, verbs that tell us what happened, what the news...
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America's treatment of detainees →
Relatedly, the ACLU has obtained new documents which shed more harsh light on the 190 War on Terror detainees who died in American custody. Specifically, many of these documents — autopsy reports and military investigations - - show that at least 25 to 30 of those cases were “unjustified homicides,” i.e., murder. It’s long been known that many detainees were killed...
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You know what I find so aggravating →
fattouch:
ladysugatitshoecakes:
About the commentary from the American public about the protest in Egypt?
Americans interjecting themselves in it! I seriously doubt that the shopkeeper who hasn’t worked in months with no food to feed his family is thinking, “I wonder what the Americans are thinking?” I am protesting in the street because America and its global influence. Get the fuck out...
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Knowing Coves: Third World Protest as US Spectator... →
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in what was happening had little business pushing their intrusive, hungry gaze into such...
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“We look forward to President Mubarak coming as soon as his schedule would...”
– Hillary Clinton in an interview, March, 2009
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“We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations,...”
– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (via abudaii: mohamedn)
vruz: hey, democracy can always wait, Bibi eh? nice ally to have, I don’t know what democracy would do without Netanyahu.
(via vruz)
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Curfew has been enacted and the Egyptian military... →
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Israel watching crisis in Egypt very closely →
brosephstalin:
““We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations, but we have to look to the future,” says the minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel enjoys diplomatic relations and security cooperation with both Egypt and Jordan, the only neighboring states that have signed treaties with the Jewish state. But while it may be more...
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80% of all Mosques in the US are "controlled by... →
HOST: Congressman, how widespread do you think this radical jihad sentiment is in US mosques? How many mosques do you think are infected?
KING: The only real testimony we have on it is from Sheikh Kabbani who was a Muslim leader during the Clinton Administration, he testified back in 1999 and 2000 before the State Department that he thought over 80 percent of the mosques in this country are...
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FBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks... →
The FBI said Thursday that it had served more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into computer attacks on websites of businesses that stopped providing services in December to WikiLeaks.
The FBI statement announcing the search warrants was the first indication that the U.S. intends to prosecute the so-called “hacktivists” for their...