September 25th, 2010 | admin
No, this is not an Onion article.
New York, NY – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met here, September 21, with 100 leaders and representatives of anti-war, labor, alternative media and Iranian and Palestinian solidarity organizations. Among the participants were Sarah Martin, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Margaret Sarfehjooy, board member of the Minneapolis-based Women Against Military Madness, former attorney general Ramsey Clark, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Sara Flounders from the International Action Center, Brian Becker of the ANSWER coalition, Ramona Africa of the Free Mumia Coalition and Amiri Baraka, poet and activist.
Continue reading the idiocy over at “Fight Back News.”
September 19th, 2010 | admin
Within the FRCPS Graduate Conference “Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities” from 16-18 June 2011 we will host a panel on Postcolonial Perspectives after Auschwitz.
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September 13th, 2010 | admin
Below is the “Editorial Retraction and Self-Criticism” of Turning the Tide, the newspaper of Anti-Racist Action, and the statement by the Rose City Antifa, “Anti‐Semitic Sources in Turning the Tide.”
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September 7th, 2010 | admin
“Attacks on Israel Ignores the Long History of Arab Conflict,” published by Murray Bookchin in The Burlington Free Press, 1986.
September 2nd, 2010 | admin
9-11 at Nine: The Conspiracy Industry and the Lure of Fascism
By Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report
New York City’s WBAI Radio—flagship of the progressive, non-profit Pacifica Network, where I am a producer—unfortunately provides a case study in the increasing embrace of right-wing conspiracy theory by the remnants of the American (and global) left.
The most useful propaganda device in this ongoing hostile take-over of the rump progressive forces has been an exploitation of the traumatic events of September 11, 2001. Alex Jones, who trumpets anti-immigrant bromides alongside 9-11 pseudo-exposés, now rivals Noam Chomsky as an icon on lefty websites. Where our rhetoric once invoked the military-industrial complex and even the sacrosanct capitalist system, today our ire is frequently targeted at such arcane entities as the Bilderberg Club, the Bavarian Illuminati, and stranger things.
WBAI provides a useful case study because it has followed the same trajectory as many of basically progressive inclination since 2001. What began as an examination of seeming anomalies in the case of 9-11 has lured some of our best minds down a black hole of irrationality that ultimately leads—and this, as shall be demonstrated, is not just hyperbole—to fascism.
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September 2nd, 2010 | admin
Moishe Postone’s essay “Anti-Semitism and National Socialism” is now available as a pamphlet.
Hi, here are the relevant links:
http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=1099
http://www.radicalbooks.co.uk/product/anti-semitism-and-national-socialism
