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Plowing Up A Storm (1984) now online

Mark Lause — 2013-05-25T09:47:33

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This great little 1984 documentary on the history of farm protest in the
United States. There are big gaps, but this is a wonderful introduction to
an essential but systemically ignored aspect of the people's experience.

http://www.netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/none/plowing-storm
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Report condemns treatment of Palestinians

Gregory Adler — 2013-05-25T05:27:25

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This is an interesting addition to the info available on Israel's
continuing ethnic cleansing to use the polite euphemism.
It contains a cynical yada yada quote from Kerry as though US imperialism
is a mere disappointed onlooker to the barbaric occupation.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/damning-new-report-on-eus-inaction-over-israel-20130525-2n3fq.html

Greg Adler
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bluff, bluster, and bullshit at CounterPunch

Dennis Brasky — 2013-05-25T04:41:57

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Saying that the issue is one of prudish objection to the word "tits" is a
pathetic attempt to divert attention away from a thoroughly reactionary
article. It looks like some of the rot at CP is more than Alex Cockburn's
"eccentricities" -

http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/24/counterpunch-bluff-and-bluster
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Stockholm burns - the bourgeoisie should be afraid

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T18:17:00

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http://www.marxist.com/stockholm-burns-the-bourgeoisie-should-be-afraid.htm

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Hezbollah and the Syrian Pit » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T16:05:19

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Franklin Lamb is a long-time supporter of Baathist rule in Syria but 
this article expresses doubt about the wisdom of Hizbullah intervening 
on al-Assad's behalf.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/24/hezbollah-and-the-syrian-pit/

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The Silent Death of the American Left » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T16:01:26

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/24/the-silent-death-of-the-american-left/

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Sheikh al-Yaqoubi Elected to the NC—its first non-Brotherhood-aligned religious figure - Syria Comment

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T14:56:37

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http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/sheikh-al-yaqoubi-elected-to-the-nc/

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Is this really a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America? — War in Context

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T14:52:40

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“For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the 
government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone, or with a 
shotgun — without due process, nor should any President deploy armed 
drones over U.S. soil.”

In saying this during his speech yesterday at the National Defense 
University, Barack Obama was following the lead of his political mentor, 
George W Bush. Which is to say: in anticipation of the possibility that 
either president might at some point in the future face prosecution for 
crimes such as murder or torture, each has wanted to present himself as 
having acted in good faith while following the advice of their legal 
counselors.

Obama is treating “due process” as a term that can be applied in 
whatever novel way his administration determines it can be used. His 
idea of due process amounts to nothing more than a process of review, 
yet in the US legal system it has quite specific elements — none more 
important than the principle that someone accused of a crime is entitled 
to a defense.

full: 
http://warincontext.org/2013/05/24/is-this-really-a-momentous-turning-point-in-post-911-america/

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Crime Fiction and Capitalist Reality

Ron Jacobs — 2013-05-24T12:36:44

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2013/05/crime-fiction-and-capitalist-reality.html
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Paul Le Blanc: The Third American Revolution -- How do we get from the capitalist present to a socialist future?

2013-05-24T07:17:26

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Paul Le Blanc: The Third American Revolution -- How do we get from the
capitalist present to a socialist future?

By Paul Le Blanc

[A revised version of the following essay will appear in a visionary
anthology, Imagine: Living in a socialist USA, to be edited by Michael Steven
Smith, Debby Smith and Frances Goldin and due to be published in September
2013.]

May 23, 2013  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- How one
can
get from the capitalist present to a socialist future can be clarified
through
what one means by socialism and by how one understands the actualities of
capitalism today. The revolutionary pathway must obviously connect with both.

Socialism means rule by the people over the economic structures and resources
that we need to keep ourselves alive and healthy, to engage in creative
activity, to maintain good relationships with each other, to be able to have
good and meaningful lives. The economy would be socially owned,
democratically
controlled and planfully utilised to meet the needs of all. It could be
described as economic democracy.

This is a revolutionary goal  a fundamental change from an economic
dictatorship (ownership and control of the economy by a relative few for the
purpose of maximising the profits of that capitalist minority) to an economy
owned by all, democratically controlled by us all and utilised in a
coordinated
manner to meet the needs and provide for the free development of all.

What socialism is not  and what that means for how to get it

Full article at http://links.org.au/node/3366





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Working life of a chef

Philip Ferguson — 2013-05-24T04:17:23

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A few people have commented on the article here.

It would be great if people could make some comments on the blog itself.

The piece was written by a young chef in New Zealand and he'd love to read
some feedback.

http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-real-working-life-of-a-chef-a-view-from-the-inside/

Phil
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The north of Ireland: war's over, repression continues

Philip Ferguson — 2013-05-24T03:56:26

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The new political dispensation in the north of Ireland, we are told, means
an end to the bad old days of discrimination against the catholic and
nationalist population in jobs, housing and voting and the armed conflict
that resulted from the discrimination. The “peace dividend” has,
supposedly, also brought an end to the repression meted out by the British
state to republican communities and republican activists. A number of
recent cases of imprisonment, including several without charges or trials,
suggest the reality is somewhat different.
Take the case of Newry political activist Stephen Murney. Stephen is the
local spokesperson for the socialist-republican organisation éirígí. He has
been to the fore in opposing, exposing and organising against the heavy
policing in this working class, largely nationalist city. This, and the
broader activities of eirigi in fighting for workers’ rights and against
the continuing British presence and partition of Ireland, made Stephen a
target for the cops. (As part of the new-look six counties the much-hated
Royal Ulster Constabulary has been  full at:
http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7755:the-war%E2%80%99s-over-but-repression-continues&Itemid=390
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Fracking threat to German beer

Stuart Munckton — 2013-05-24T02:35:08

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I was already pretty strongly opposed to fracking... but this goddamn
serious

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If there are two things Germans have traditionally loved, it's purity and
beer. Now, according to a German brewers
association<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10076467/Fracking-could-ruin-German-beer-industry-brewers-tell-Angela-Merkel.html>,
both are at risk because of a potential law that would legalize fracking in
the country.

A 500-year-old beer purity law called the "Reinheitsgebot" is apparently at
stake. The "Reinheitsgebot" states that German brewers can only produce
beer using malt, hops, yeast and water. The chemicals produced by fracking
could, according to the Brauer-Bund beer association, pollute water in the
underground wells used by some breweries.

http://gawker.com/fracking-might-destroy-the-german-beer-industry-509628076?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

LENIN'S TOMB: Death by the barracks

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T01:53:08

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On the "terrorist" meat cleaver attack in Britain.

http://www.leninology.com/2013/05/death-by-barracks.html

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Witness the heart of Cuba with Cuba Education Tours

Marcel Hatch — 2013-05-24T01:24:02

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The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks | The Nation

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-24T01:16:23

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http://www.thenation.com/article/174437/secret-donors-behind-center-american-progress-and-other-think-tanks

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No one had to die in Oklahoma

Stuart Munckton — 2013-05-24T00:34:55

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Also rare in Moore, apparently, are adequate storm shelters — even in
schools. “Most of the schools in Oklahoma don't have one” due to the cost,
Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis told CNN.

For those cost savings, we paid with the lives of nine children.

This is horrendous. It is unconscionable. It is insane. But it is the way a
market society prepares for disasters — it doesn't.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54140

The Obama that I used to Know

Anthony Boynton — 2013-05-23T16:59:08

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What every thinking liberal, not that they all think, must be thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnAp3YxCCw
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Was the London killing of a British soldier 'terrorism'? | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-23T16:45:50

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-terrorism-blowback

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Bhaskar Sunkara’s vain hopes | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Louis Proyect — 2013-05-23T15:35:45

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http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/bhaskar-sunkaras-vain-hopes/

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The real working life of a chef

michael yates — 2013-05-23T13:53:33

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This is a good essay. It speaks the truth about restaurant work. One of my sons is a chef, and the other two work in the food industry as cooks and manager of a pizza shop. I get pretty disgusted when I hear people talk about the glamor of restaurants. One person I know went on and on one evening about how the work in a fancy restaurant was like a symphony. I wanted to slap her across the face for such stupid bullshit. Cook your own fucking food! My sons are always getting burned and cut, and the work is stressful beyond words. They have great skills, and most of us could do this work for a single shift. Yet, we just order our food and never think about what is happening in that kitchen. Plus wage theft is common, and unpaid hours are the norm. At least when some drunk college kid gives my
  one son a hard time late at night, my son might just grab him by the shirt collar and throw him out the door. Watch the regular cooks on the show Chopped and listen to how much that $10,000 prize means to them. Fuck every celebrity chef and fuck all the "foodies" too.       
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