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Occupy for All Species | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 19, 2012 "If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed, or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not." --Moby There I was, walking along 30th Ave. in Astoria, Queens. Just a few steps in front of me, two men and a little girl were strolling at a casual pac...
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Ah-Anti-Anti-Capitalista | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Insatiable is not sustainable Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 15, 2012 “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” --Edward Abbey "The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn’t really exist in the country: Communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces for discussion ... people doing things and helping each oth...
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Still Standing Amid The Wreckage | James Howard Kunstler
CityPlace, West Palm Beach, Fla.James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 14, 2012 -- The New Urbanists held their big annual meet-up for four days last week and I stomped a big carbon footprint flying down to West Palm Beach for the doings. I don't know who exactly picked West Palm, but it was at once peculiar, disheartening, instructive, and exhausting. The Congress for the New Urbani...
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The Descent into Stasis | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerMay 9, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Last weeks’ post attempted, with the help of the ancient Greek philosopher Polybius, to trace out the trajectory that democracies -- and in particular the United States -- tend to follow across time. The pattern that Polybius outlined, and that American politics has cycled through three times so far in the course of its history, begins with most...
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Disinformation On Every Front | Paul Craig Roberts
May 4, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to Americans. If I may give some...
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Democracy's Arc | John Michael Greer
May 2, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- The troubling news about methane releases from the Arctic ocean that was the focus of last week’s post on The Archdruid Report belongs, as I mentioned then, to the wider trajectory of industrial society’s decline and fall, not to the more-specific theme I’ve been developing here in recent months. The end of America’s global empire takes place against the backgr...
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Brewing a Conflict with China | Paul Craig Roberts
Apr. 30, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the...
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Illegal Settlements Bonanza | Ramzy Baroud
Israel Plots an Endgame Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 2, 2012 -- Israel’s colonization policies are entering an alarming new phase, comparable in historic magnitude to the original plans to colonize Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem following the war of 1967. On Apr. 24, an Israeli ministerial committee approved three settlement outposts -- Bruchin and Rechelim in the northern part ...
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East Africa at the Brink | Ramzy Baroud
Hidden Hands behind Sudan’s Oil War Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Apr. 27, 2012 -- Once again Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir waved his walking stick in the air. Once again he spoke of splendid victories over his enemies as thousands of jubilant supporters danced and cheered. But this time around the stakes are too high. An all out war against newly independent South Sudan might not be i...
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A Little Idea | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Occupy a Beautiful Beginning Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 12, 2012 “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” --Bruce Lee Like many martial artists of my generation, Bruce Lee was a catalyst and inspiration for my own studies. In fact, I specifically opted to take up his original style of Wing Chun Kung Fu. The first fo...
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1, 2, 3, Puke | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 7, 2012 -- Europe may soon be choking on that plat du jour of government a la Hollandaise with the side of chopped Greek salad. The whole world, in fact, has got something like a giant hairball stuck in its craw. The hairball is composed of filaments of lies wound over a core of supernatural indebtedness. The lies are promises that the debt will be ...
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In Defense of Occupation: Dealing with skeptics | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 7, 2012 “Don't criticize what you can't understand.” --Bob Dylan So, you took off from work on May 1 but opted to not explain about May Day to any of your co-workers. Little did you know that you'd be recognized in footage on the evening news and find yourself face-to-face with a skeptical colleague, who ponders: I don�...
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Daisy Cutters Into Daisies: #NoWarButClassWar Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Apr. 3, 2012 "You can't say civilization don't advance. In every war, they kill you in a new way." --Will Rogers Seed bombs are compressed balls of soil and compost embedded with wildflower seeds. When jettisoned onto construction sites, vacant lots, etc. seed bombs become a method of protesting and combating urban spraw...
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PILLOW TALK: Duck, Duck, Goose! | Deborah Goodwin
Apr. 16, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Out back, this time of year, we have a lovely pond. It's really a large hole in the ground with a couple of picturesque boulders that fills up with snowmelt and run-off from the hills above. In the spring, this hole is filled with sparkling clear water and tadpoles of the frogs that overwintered by digging into the muddy bottom. The first day of spring for us...
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Seascape With Methane Plumes | John Michael Greer
Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- In the wake of last week’s post, I’d meant to plunge straight into the next part of this sequence of posts and talk about the unraveling of American politics. Still, it’s worth remembering that the twilight of America’s global empire is merely an incident in the greater trajectory of the end of the industrial age, and part of t...
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Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence | Paul Craig Roberts
A fish rots from the head Apr. 25, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the U.S. government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists. (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/) In an effort to create evidence, the U.S. government has illegally resorted to torture. Torture produces false confessions, plea b...
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How Liberty Was Lost | Paul Craig Roberts
Apr. 23, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- When did things begin going wrong in America? “From the beginning,” answer some. English colonists, themselves under the thumb of a king, exterminated American Indians and stole their lands, as did late 18th and 19th century Americans. Over the course of three centuries the native inhabitants of America were dispossessed, just as Israelis have been driving Pale...
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1,000 Reasons to Strike on May 1: A day without the 99% | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "What are you rebelling against?""Whaddya got?" --From the 1953 movie, The Wild One Apr. 27, 2012 -- It's no accident that "the system" -- this dominant and destructive culture of ours -- makes us feel so damn alone, makes us feel like we can't make a difference, like we can't "fight City Ha...
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Unplugging Americans From The Matrix | Paul Craig Roberts
Apr. 19, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to time I r...
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BOOKS: Side by Side - Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh | Jim Miles
Side by Side - Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by: Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh. New Press, New York, 2012. Apr 22, 2012 (Palestinian Chronicle) -- This is an intriguing work of historical writing. For the parameters that it has set itself, it succeeds. It is written as would be expected with both sides choosing their words carefully as descriptive words and active verbs ca...
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The Rest is Hasbara: Jenny Tonge’s Victory over the Lobby | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2012 -- “My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,” began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. “Now, as a result of the impotence of the international community, not just in Gaza, but ... over 40 years of occupation of Palestine by Israel, those institutions that I visited are rubble and many of the children with whom I playe...
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As If Nothing Matters | James Howard Kunstler
M.C. Escher James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 23, 2012 -- The world gave the appearance of doing nothing and going nowhere over the past month -- apart from the sensational liaison of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, which, some believe, augurs a dazzling speed-up of the much prayed-for economic recovery, return to full employment, $2.50 gasoline by summer, and the selection of Jesus ...
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Roots of Occupy: Wall Street has always been War Street | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini There's plenty that feels new and fresh about Occupy Wall Street (OWS): the younger participants, the scope of the coalition, the endurance, the creativity, and the outrage. What's not new is the target of that outra...
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The Earth Needs More Than a Day: Why We Occupy (Part 1) | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Apr. 20, 2012 "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips April 22 is -- wait for it -- "Earth Day." Tragically, far too many of us humans live insulated within a culture so disconnected from its literal landbase that we have to set aside one day a ye...
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Roots of Occupy: The Battle in Seattle, 1999 | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “In the present circumstances, I’d say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.” --Arundhati Roy During a panel on animal liberation at the recent NYC Anarchist Bookfair, one of my co-presenters started a discussion about the World Trade Organization (WTO). Besides pointing out the crucial connections between such organizations/trea...
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