tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37769112012-02-09T00:38:57.057-08:00ecosocialism"He had breasts. Not large ones. Small breasts, like a flat-chested woman temporarily swollen with milk. Then with his red beard, his face of a sunburnt forty-five-year-old man, stern-visaged, long-nosed, thin-lipped, he began to nurse. The baby stopped wailing and sucked greedily." -Marge Piercy, from "Woman on the Edge of Time" (p. 134)Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.comBlogger5351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-76963243097204785142008-03-02T07:29:00.000-08:002008-03-02T10:38:51.141-08:00EVEN THE GLOBAL WARMING ACCEPTERS ARE IN DENIAL"Now, wait a minute," I imagine you readers objecting, "aren't the people who accept the theory of abrupt climate change the good guys?" But they're in denial too; they're just in denial about a different set of propositions, social propositions rather than climatological ones. There's so much denial about that maybe there's a super-thin chance Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-91049325208218989902008-01-27T18:29:00.000-08:002008-01-27T18:36:05.735-08:00A BIG WIN FOR OBAMA AND THE SOUTHPoll numbers are up; Obama's not so great-looking right now, given his financial backing, but he could surprise us... high poll numbers are a good sign, as negative campaign advertising tends to reduce public interest in elections...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-16579078471257840002008-01-27T17:53:00.000-08:002008-01-27T18:43:15.877-08:00EVEN THE SECURITY FIRMS ARE PAYING ATTENTIONJane'sNew Security BeatContextual article:The Pentagon and Climate Change...My DKos abrupt climate change diaries:My diary on Mark Lynas' SIX DEGREES: an important readMy diary on Mark Lynas' HIGH TIDE: journalistic ethnographyMy diary on Saral Sarkar's ECO-SOCIALISM OR ECO-CAPITALISM?: now the mainstream in eco-socialist visionSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-34582903167741193062007-12-09T08:13:00.000-08:002007-12-09T09:07:59.887-08:00AMERICA NEEDS A REAL LEFT THIRD PARTYAnd, no, not a fundamentalist "Christian" party to split the Right, but rather a new party to stand for the future...The Green Party used to be promising, in that direction. Now it looks like a ball and chain. Let's look at its faults:1) the fact that the various informal systems of economic and political patronage that characterize American economic/Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-3435927298969384372007-11-26T15:15:00.000-08:002007-11-26T15:17:34.138-08:00Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-74305993579511105312007-11-25T06:33:00.000-08:002007-11-25T06:38:22.507-08:00HUNGER ACTIVISM QUICK AND EASYStep one: Go to your local farmer's market at closing time.Step two: Ask the farmers to give you their unwanted vegetables and fruits, and put them in your vehicle.Step three: Take the vegetables/fruit to your local food bank (when it is open). Park outside of the food bank premises and give the vegetables/fruit to whomever will take them away.There you go. Hunger Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-28006651464618164332007-11-22T17:08:00.000-08:002007-11-23T06:40:54.504-08:00MY AGENDA FOR THE '08 CAMPAIGNHere it is. It comes in three parts:1) a "reality-based" political agenda for the future.2) a discussion of the pragmatics (relation of discourse to hearers/readers) of political agendas3) a critique of a successful politician's agenda.Part one: A Reality-Based Political Agenda:All candidates are capable of free will.Perhaps they will use this free will to recognizeSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-29544336182217096102007-10-05T15:22:00.001-07:002007-10-05T15:22:41.468-07:00OLD SHORT BOOK REVIEWSFederici, Sylvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004. Federici claims that the class revolts that characterized the Middle Ages were settled by significant gains made by working people after the Black Death. Working-class power was thereafter "shut down" by an elite strategy that promoted sexism, racism, and Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-73274770012129878732007-10-05T15:09:00.000-07:002007-10-05T15:10:11.619-07:00OLD WALT SHEASBY BIBLIOGRAPHYThe Green Alliance requested a Walt Sheasby article. Yoshie Furuhashi has one online bibliography of Walt, I have another. Here is mine, repeated:A FURTHER SHEASBY BIBLIOGRAPHYHere is a Walt Sheasby article on the "Peak Oil" issue that may raise some eyebrows. I've also made a copy here.Growing the Red-Green Paradigm, an article about ecosocialism.Corporation Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-19786111018708675702007-10-01T01:41:00.000-07:002007-10-01T02:36:32.582-07:00A GUIDE TO THE GREENS (FOR THE UNINFORMED DEMOCRAT)Preface:I am led by recent discussion on DKos to imagine hearing more of that "The Greens are Republicans" urban legend from the Democrats again in this election cycle.So, in the hopes of remedying some of this ignorance, and in light of my experience as a fellow traveler of the Green Party of California (and, for some small time, of a fledgling Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-22207639728256127132007-07-24T23:15:00.000-07:002007-07-24T23:26:41.436-07:00HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL PER DAY?13 July 1007: Global Oil Demand to Increase In '08:The International Energy Agency predicted on Friday that tightness on the global oil market would ease next year, as it raised its forecast for oil product demand forecast for 2008 by 2.5 percent to 88.2 million barrels a day.It said increasing demand should be offset by an increase in Opec capacity of one million Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-73883333799887249752007-07-24T14:43:00.000-07:002007-11-08T06:17:17.856-08:00Title: Sustainable Education and Prefiguration in a Couple of Acres: The Pomona College Natural FarmAbstract: Sustainability is nowhere to be found, and so we appear to be groping in the dark when looking for it. One of the ways in which we can proceed to build knowledge about sustainability, however, is in the community garden. A conceptual guide to the idea of sustainability is located in theSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-54051314911583153282007-07-13T15:33:00.000-07:002007-07-13T15:35:15.410-07:00OUR TORTURER-BOYS IN ABU GHRAIB AND THEIR ATTITUDESview here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-28738751002780643822007-07-13T08:10:00.000-07:002007-07-13T09:14:55.874-07:00RESPONSE TO THE PARTY-WORSHIPPERSI gave it in a comment I made here. This, of course, is derivative: I suspect that the original controversy has to do with Cindy Sheehan's diary of last Monday in which she stated:I was a life-long Democrat only because the choices were limited. The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th Century except the other Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-74876603782551483392007-06-26T05:39:00.000-07:002007-06-26T10:24:01.018-07:00THE SURPLUS OF CAPITAL AND THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENTSThe delusion held in common by both Green and Democratic Parties in the US at this time is that "electing a better President" will solve America's political problems. The Democrats, the far more popular party, have in fact worked this strategy to success in last two previous elections, in 2000 and 2004, and in both cases election victory was Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-91451222166119684932007-06-23T16:27:00.000-07:002007-06-24T09:23:20.766-07:00ONE MORE THING ABOUT RALPH NADERNader isn't an ecosocialist. Walt Sheasby though that he had ecosocialist potential, but Walt's dead. So Nader is not really part of the "ecosocialist project."Ralph Nader ran for President twice, attempting both times to uncover the darkness at the heart of bourgeois democracy. He did this without publicly recognizing the economic connection between the surplusSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-33641362657849463282007-06-22T13:43:00.000-07:002007-06-23T15:34:17.942-07:00DAILYKOS.COM -- AN UPDATEIf some of you have been wondering where I've been, I've been posting for the last few months at DailyKos.com... there is a whole lot of stuff there. I have gained the respect of several of the major contributors, and I haven't been kicked out yet.We will see what happens on DailyKos.com when Presidential season kicks off in earnest. DailyKos.com was a major site of theSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-4302219698775222772007-02-14T21:57:00.000-08:002007-02-14T21:58:37.594-08:00Kudos to Martin Murie for this article...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1171006125958757532007-02-08T23:28:00.000-08:002007-02-08T23:28:46.196-08:00Stan Goff's "Guns & Money"Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1169641500287759832007-01-24T04:23:00.000-08:002007-01-24T04:25:01.566-08:00hereSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1168709032742877122007-01-13T09:22:00.000-08:002007-01-13T09:23:52.816-08:00I'M LOOKING FOR A JOBResume here... if you know of any good leads, include them in comments to this post...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1167852862487126612007-01-03T11:01:00.000-08:002007-01-03T11:35:24.456-08:00THE NEW (KEYNESIAN) KID COMES TO TOWNIn a story published on my 45th birthday last year, Christian Parenti seems somewhat impressed by the story of Bolivia's vice president -- his economic policy, however, seems to be drawn from a pre-neoliberal text on economics: ...many Bolivian businesspeople have been won over by the notion that the only way for them to start selling more product is to make Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1167792399039942092007-01-02T18:45:00.000-08:002007-01-02T18:46:39.093-08:00I'M HANGING OUT IN DAILY KOS THESE DAYSYou get to meet more people there.Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1167772007160945532007-01-02T13:05:00.000-08:002007-01-02T13:06:48.060-08:00THAT SAIGON MOMENT IS A'COMIN!See the New York Times here... the Bush administration, with characteristic sadism, has decided not to let them in...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1167586225208678232006-12-31T09:25:00.000-08:002006-12-31T09:30:26.890-08:00CLOSINGS TO END AN OLD YEARTop story: Billmon has disappeared. In other news, Saddam Hussein was hung, and Jerry Ford died. Happy New Year!Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166823607020570732006-12-22T13:39:00.000-08:002006-12-22T13:40:07.140-08:00BUSH AS AN ECONOMIC PHENOMENONSee hereSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166643581357688992006-12-20T10:58:00.000-08:002006-12-20T11:39:42.163-08:00THE SOUTH CENTRAL FARMERS continue forward... this is the revolution, putting down farms in the middle of big city blight...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166593985741888672006-12-19T21:52:00.000-08:002006-12-19T21:53:05.940-08:00WE'RE BACK TO THE 1910s NOWUS Army might break Goodyear strikeIs anyone confused anymore? Our good ol' guvmint is the VANGUARD of the OWNING CLASS!(And isn't there something in the Constitution about "involuntary servitude"? Never mind. Go back to work, slaves.)Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166555725636659892006-12-19T11:14:00.000-08:002006-12-19T22:07:40.343-08:00CAN WE DECLARE COLIN POWELL "TO THE LEFT" OF HARRY REID?Alexander Cockburn certainly thinks so. How about the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Are they "to the left" of Harry Reid? Gordon Smith? At this point? The response on Daily Kos would like to have it both ways: 1) explaining that Harry Reid's remarks are being taken out of context, for indeed Reid does want to see a plan for withdrawal, and 2) Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166486521749400692006-12-18T15:59:00.000-08:002006-12-18T16:02:02.063-08:00TWO MORE VOTES AGAINST "APOCALYPTO"See Luis J. Rodriguez here and Liza Grandia here. I don't think it's a coincidence that this movie caps off three years of nonsense about "bringing democracy" to the primitives in Iraq because, obviously, they can't do it all by themselves...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166205931412546222006-12-15T09:58:00.000-08:002006-12-15T11:47:45.940-08:00ONCE AGAINKevin Zeese reports upon the campaign to elect Dennis Kucinich President. Who could be motivated to support Kucinich? We all know what's going to happen; Kucinich will be snowballed by the pro-war forces in the party, a pro-war candidate will win, and the Kucinich "forces" will pledge their undying support to that candidate and his promises of more war. Meanwhile the execs at TribuneSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166132180159493122006-12-14T13:35:00.000-08:002006-12-14T13:36:20.340-08:00EVIDENCE OF OUR UNECOLOGICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD NATUREcan be found in the way it treats us... see Jason Hribal's narrative of when animals resist their exploitation...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166069838043079362006-12-13T20:16:00.000-08:002006-12-13T22:25:08.936-08:00AN ATTEMPT AT GIVING MYSELF AN ETHNIC IDENTITYthat isn't "white" or "American" or something obscene like that:What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of thoseSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1166068732217424872006-12-13T19:54:00.000-08:002006-12-13T20:26:20.083-08:00BIOFUELS ARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL DEAD ENDDavid Pimentel summarizes it here...Gristmill expands on it here... from Philpott's article:Deforestation, falling water tables -- these are hardly the hallmarks of a fuel source that can reasonably be called "renewable," much less an agriculture strategy designed to maintain food-production capacity. And rising prices for food commodities, without other Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165946599720652812006-12-12T10:02:00.000-08:002006-12-12T10:03:19.910-08:00WHAT'S UP WITH THIS?It's all a game, and you're the pawns...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165862994651318722006-12-11T10:30:00.000-08:002006-12-11T10:49:55.523-08:00THE JURY-RIGGED ADMINISTRATIONFrom Dictionary.com:jury-riggedadjectivedone or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer" [syn: improvised]Patrick Cockburn's most recent piece in the Independent is, of course, about Iraq -- but one of his observations should require us to take Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165856259729255232006-12-11T08:56:00.000-08:002006-12-11T08:57:40.633-08:00APARTHEID LIVES!Apparently the Department of Fatherland, er, Homeland Security has incorporated US support for the old South African apartheid regime into its databases: see here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165710934760042592006-12-09T16:32:00.000-08:002006-12-09T16:40:16.913-08:00SINCE THE ANTISEMITE GIBSON HAS ALREADY BEEN ON LENO...plugging this stuff, here are some further thoughts:Please do not pay to see ApocalyptoApocalypto: The Cinematic Logic of GenocideSo, after all this, we might be led to ask: who says the Indian Wars are over?Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165426717479871602006-12-06T09:37:00.000-08:002006-12-06T09:38:38.706-08:00TAKE THIS TO HEARTRichest 2% hold half the world's assetsSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165342961660480072006-12-05T10:22:00.000-08:002006-12-05T10:22:41.770-08:00THE DOLLAR MELTS AS IRAQ BURNSSee here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1165204408478580612006-12-03T19:52:00.000-08:002006-12-03T19:53:28.686-08:00MY OLIVE BRANCH TO THE DEMOCRATSRead here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164960293599008162006-12-01T00:04:00.000-08:002006-12-01T00:04:53.656-08:00FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!Or so says Al Giordano...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164959926571561702006-11-30T23:55:00.000-08:002006-11-30T23:58:46.680-08:00NOT JUST A SLIP OF THE TONGUE"Kramer" profiled...and, as for GE/ NBC, I'd like to require them to air a commercial using the slogan "GE: We Bring Good Things To Death," while showing film of the detonation of an atomic bomb in the background...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164955663648435412006-11-30T22:47:00.000-08:002006-11-30T22:47:49.436-08:00NOW HERE'S A FUN POLL Do you believe President Bush misled the nation in order to go to war with Iraq?Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164922216507474232006-11-30T12:33:00.000-08:002006-11-30T13:56:12.226-08:00BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BEAlternet does it once again, by posting this amusing piece... as Kathy Dobie pointed out in an article in Harper's, desertion has become the "only option" for many soldiers who want out. As Dobie points out:Soldiers who go AWOL have either panicked and see no other way out of their difficulties or are well-informed and know that deserting is sometimes the quickest, surest Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164660948085456012006-11-27T12:53:00.001-08:002006-11-30T13:54:35.636-08:00AND NOW ECUADORRafael Correa appears to have won Ecuador's election: Counterpunch's Nikolas Kozloff offers analysis; Bloomberg panics; the BBC calls him a "populist." The Kozloff article is the most useful; Correa faces the general opposition between capital and nature. Even though Correa may distribute some of the benefits of capitalism to Ecuador's indigenous population (the group that Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164605710050801852006-11-26T21:27:00.000-08:002006-11-26T22:01:53.270-08:00CALLS FOR CALM AS CROWD STONES IRAQ PMRead here... now, this follows the general rule: apostates are worse than infidels. But this, and this, should tell any reader where the "government of Iraq" stands with its people. Let me suggest some obvious calls here. If US troops leave, there will be a general slaughter of anyone remotely associated with the US or its puppet government. At some pointSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164515125066995872006-11-25T19:51:00.000-08:002006-11-25T21:13:36.193-08:00MAYBE THIS WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE "ROTTEN APPLES" THEORYThis showed up on Daily Kos:"MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday."This was hinted at back in '05 on Democracy Now, and the ACLU has known for some time that torture at Abu Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164507662181096192006-11-25T18:07:00.000-08:002006-11-25T18:21:02.303-08:00FOOLISHNESS BEGETS DISASTERFrom Max Fraad Wolff"It is clear that legions of folks are desperately continuing to pursue survival strategies that built them mountains of debt and no longer make any sense at all."What's really pathetic is that this economic forecast is being made of a social milieu that confronts the future alone. Our ideology is rugged individualism; our schools are test factoriesSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164494164476742892006-11-25T14:33:00.000-08:002006-11-25T14:36:04.693-08:00GP OF ENGLAND/WALES SELECTS ECOSOCIALISTSDerek Wall informs me that "The Green Party of England and Wales has two principal speakers both of whom are ecosocialist," so at least we have a voice... bringing the ecosocialist future into being is another thing, however, and Gabriel Kolko is pessimistic...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164414985762287322006-11-24T16:36:00.000-08:002006-11-24T17:31:33.150-08:00AMLO SETS UP CABINETIt's nice to see that Hector Tobar is still working with the Times... Tobar is an old UCSC alum and student in Jim O'Connor's classes ... enjoyed his novel The Tattooed Soldier...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164344718443155762006-11-23T20:30:00.000-08:002006-11-23T21:27:38.523-08:00TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR, AND...Here Peter Montague puts the pieces together, and still comes up with zero. This piece has been making the blog rounds of recent. Here's where his attempts at abstraction fail:The U. S. Bureau of the Census estimates that global population will reach 9.4 billion by 2050, a 44% increase in 45 years. It might even grow faster than that, doubling in 35 years to 12 Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164342352592273832006-11-23T20:24:00.000-08:002006-11-23T20:25:53.803-08:00INTERESTING CONVERSATION ON DAILY KOSYep. it's that dollar thang again...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164219345785417562006-11-22T10:15:00.000-08:002006-11-22T10:15:46.176-08:00CAN WE STOP SAYING THIS NOW?From Democracy Now: Pentagon Spying Targeted Church Meetings, Veterans GroupHere in the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union has released new documents from a Pentagon database used to spy on groups opposed to military recruitment and the war in Iraq. In one case, defense department officials notified two California recruiting stations after learning Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164173182682179282006-11-21T21:10:00.000-08:002006-11-21T21:26:23.383-08:00THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY: GLOBAL WARMING?They just showed this on Nova -- and I guess I already had read it -- but it bears repeating: the most recent theory on the biggest extinction in natural history is that vulcanism combined with global warming caused it... today, of course, we've got the global warming part covered...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164159257858156892006-11-21T17:03:00.000-08:002006-11-21T17:43:07.653-08:00ON STANLEY MILGRAM AND UCLA'S TASER POLICY"Urthwalker" from MySpace pointed out in his blog that the UCLA police's taser policy allows them to torture nonviolent resisters. This is, of course, important in light of the recent, and repeated, tasering of a UCLA student in one of UCLA's libraries. As Lenin's Tomb put it: The most grotesque part of the video is where the cops are telling him to getSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164151581282161662006-11-21T15:26:00.000-08:002006-11-21T15:30:21.266-08:00WHO SAYS THE "WAR ON TERROR" ISN'T RACIST?The employees at US Airways know damn well what it's for... so who's "playing the race card" now? It should give the readers of this blog some pause, to note that the elite attempt to maintain global US hegemony (by keeping America "at war") now exploits the most primitive of xenophobias...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164004888778923382006-11-19T22:39:00.000-08:002006-11-19T22:41:28.896-08:00MORE FROM OAXACAI do hope the APPO gets it together soon...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1164004602512910072006-11-19T22:35:00.000-08:002006-11-19T22:36:42.636-08:00DID THE CIA KILL BOBBY KENNEDY?Shane O' Sullivan thinks so.Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163830518653424952006-11-17T22:13:00.000-08:002006-11-17T22:23:31.530-08:00BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACYWWE Smackdown! was on tonight again... wasn't it fun watching Batista fight King Booker? Oh, sure, it looks a bit too much like race conflict, but WWE wrestling is almost as real as... as... as bourgeois democracy!Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163363890271585162006-11-12T12:31:00.000-08:002006-11-12T12:45:06.346-08:00DOLLAR TAKES ANOTHER DUMPFrom this post:Mr Fan said the real problem the world faced today was an overvalued dollar, not only against the renminbi but against all major currencies. "The main responsibility for this imbalance lies with the US Treasury, which is printing too much money," he said.Analysts said with 70 per cent of China's reserves thought to be in dollars and Chinese officials makingSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163291245303831672006-11-11T16:26:00.000-08:002006-11-11T16:29:51.756-08:00MSNBC POLL: 87% SAY "IMPEACH BUSH"Read here: this should put pressure on Congress to do something, that is, unless the Democrats can pull a fast one and save the President's butt...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163290570248314982006-11-11T16:15:00.000-08:002006-11-11T16:16:11.276-08:00MORE NEWS FROM OAXACAthe revolution is on -- long live the revolution --Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163183860592656822006-11-10T10:36:00.000-08:002006-11-10T10:42:06.273-08:00CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GREEN PARTY OF ILLINOISfor Rich Whitney's 10% showing in the last election, qualifying the Green Party of Illinois for major party status... The breakdown is here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1163095824045046662006-11-09T10:01:00.000-08:002006-11-09T10:10:24.223-08:00ONCE AGAINMike Whitney predicts economic downfall...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162888263879963112006-11-06T23:59:00.000-08:002006-11-07T07:32:12.020-08:00MY FIVE-POINT PLATFORMGilles D' Aymery suggests, in a sally against the pseudo-Left: What do American fake-Progressives, busy signing liberal manifestos, self-defined pseudo-Marxists, and laptop-Revolutionaries do when they want to fight the Republicrooks du jour? Do they unite and promote third-party candidates like the many worthy of consideration in the Green Party? Do they fight for, and Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162776692551722362006-11-05T17:23:00.000-08:002006-11-05T17:37:28.470-08:00BIBLICAL FUNDAMENTALISTS, TAKE NOTEyour plague of locusts is coming!Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162692727433534582006-11-04T17:51:00.000-08:002006-11-04T18:14:18.486-08:00NEW OFFERINGSMitchel Cohen has been described to me as "politically difficult," yet the manifesto he posts on Counterpunch makes a lot of sense...also, a commentator on "Brickburner" pointed interestingly to an interview with Neil Smith you should listen to...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162577882288652262006-11-03T10:14:00.000-08:002006-11-03T10:48:40.910-08:00MORE COVERAGE OF OAXACAsummarized by "Lenin"...meanwhile, Laura Carlsen celebrates Day of the Dead in Mexico...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162575120576515972006-11-03T09:31:00.000-08:002006-11-03T09:32:01.230-08:00GLOBAL COLLAPSE OF FISHERIESSee here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162534978674174962006-11-02T22:20:00.000-08:002006-11-02T22:22:59.523-08:00ORWELLMAN DEFENDS WIRETAPPINGClick on the pictureSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162343886805778062006-10-31T17:17:00.000-08:002006-10-31T17:18:06.880-08:00BUSH MOVES TOWARD MARTIAL LAWSee here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162343575170678712006-10-31T17:12:00.000-08:002006-10-31T17:12:55.423-08:00FROM RICHARD MYERS, ON OAXACARoundup -- events in Oaxaca, and in support of Oaxaca ------- Otra Campana ... Has asked all adherents worldwide to protest the incursion into Oaxaca. "Protest in defense of the people of Oaxaca." Block roads, airports, demonstrate in front of the Mx consulates or embassies, worldwide. Whatever works...Plus they announce a General strike in Mexico for nov 20, Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162314984777168482006-10-31T09:10:00.000-08:002006-10-31T09:16:27.723-08:00CARL ROMANELLI MAKES IT ONTO DEMOCRACY NOWhere -- this follows upon a great Democracy Now show on Oct. 30 where Amy covers the situation in Oaxaca and the death of Brad Will.Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162104978442691042006-10-28T23:37:00.000-07:002006-10-29T00:02:04.400-07:00WHO SHOULD THE LEFT SUPPORT IN THIS ELECTION?Discussion in Brickburner and Feral Scholar centers on this question. Josh asks this pivotal question: "The whole plan: "take back Congress and pull the Dems left". When has that ever worked?"The problem is that, in this, the fourth and last stage of capitalism, under neoliberalism, capital is becoming consolidated on a global level. In such a Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162086351426603012006-10-28T18:33:00.000-07:002006-10-28T18:45:51.670-07:00GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS FACE COLLAPSEThis really isn't news, but someone else is saying it again. Sure, it's the WWF, they're sold out... but there's a cool map:Creditor nations in red, debtor nations in green. In capitalist terms that is -- the WWF scheme would switch roles. Dare anyone say that the world is BEING EXPLOITED TO DEATH, and that the solution is to END CAPITALISM? Or are we waiting Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1162013605229530632006-10-27T22:32:00.000-07:002006-10-27T22:33:25.440-07:00COURT RULING FOR HOMELESSvictory for Food Not BombsSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161976936911263102006-10-27T12:17:00.000-07:002006-10-27T12:22:17.986-07:00REPUBLICANS GET THEIR COMEUPPANCEso that next year we can hate the Democrats...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161937839031164702006-10-27T01:28:00.000-07:002006-10-27T01:35:00.356-07:00PLEASE TELL YOUR LOCAL JAVAHEADSTime to stop buying their coffee from Grinch's... kudos to SIRATYST...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161936716220061712006-10-27T01:11:00.000-07:002006-10-27T01:12:39.983-07:00A SIGN OF THE TIMESAvailable on DVD, too...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161365760222256362006-10-20T10:35:00.000-07:002006-10-20T10:55:55.950-07:00THE IMMIGRANTS' NO-RIGHTS SCENEOne of the major ideological tenets of neoliberal economics, besides the sacred principle of increased government under the banner of "less government", is the notion of "mobility for capital but not for labor." Here, Lee Sustar points out that the crackdown promised earlier this year with the Sensenbrenner bill is largely taking place with bipartisan coordination.Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161316667175300952006-10-19T20:57:00.000-07:002006-10-19T20:57:47.666-07:00DEAD ZONES IN OCEANSNo, they don't play the Grateful Dead in these zones...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1161282379607624532006-10-19T11:25:00.000-07:002006-10-19T11:27:16.753-07:00AARON DIXON FOR SENATEPardon my extreme lateness... do include this campaign on your blogroll... kudos to Jesse Hagopian, his campaign manager...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160887356232441082006-10-14T21:38:00.000-07:002006-10-14T21:45:06.490-07:00ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT As the squeeze on the American middle class gets tighter and tighter, we can expect less fun and more "staying at home and watching movies on the DVD player," or whatever... movies, music, TV, and pop culture are mostly boring these days anyway... I suppose it beats staying at home and watching the lies on TV while drinking beer, which is what we did during the '80s... I Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160721569889988292006-10-12T23:33:00.000-07:002006-10-13T15:58:26.223-07:00BILLMON CITES BUSH SPEECHIn commentary here upon the speech taped here:The moral of the story, I guess, is that you don't need to be an inhuman monster to cause an inhuman amount of death, destruction and suffering. You don't even need evil -- ignorance and arrogance and incompetence can manage the job quite nicely. But, as I've said before, it does requires a rare combination of those qualities Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160720507482475262006-10-12T23:19:00.000-07:002006-10-12T23:21:47.710-07:00GOVERNMENT FAILS TO IGNITE PLANTSCanadians fight through pot plants..."We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said. Go plants!Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160448646355810492006-10-09T19:49:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:50:47.053-07:00THE PEOPLE IN POWER ARE NOT QUITE AN OKAY BUNCHDoes this page confirm your worst fears?Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160318099982771072006-10-08T07:33:00.000-07:002006-10-08T07:35:00.770-07:00AND THEY'RE DOING SOOO WELL...in Russia now that the Thatcherists are in power...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160279343751766832006-10-07T20:45:00.000-07:002006-10-07T21:30:02.466-07:00AT LAST!we have seen class analyses of everything else -- now Peter Kwong grants us a class analysis of the Chinese economy. An excerpt: According to a report by the China Rights Forum, only 5 per cent of China's 20,000 richest people have made it on merit. More than 90 per cent are related to senior government or Communist Party officials. The richest among them are the relatives of the very Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160072029467307102006-10-05T11:11:00.000-07:002006-10-05T11:20:21.113-07:00THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT: A CRITIQUENow, The World Can't Wait is a well-intentioned movement full of well-intentioned people. I even signed on myself. But it needs to be put to work doing something more than just protesting. How about ripping out concrete and putting in urban farms? Stan Goff's blog, Feral Scholar, has a lively commentary on the politics of urban food production...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1160071856260348642006-10-05T11:10:00.000-07:002006-10-05T11:17:17.640-07:00SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN ENDORSES TODD CHRETIEN FOR SENATERead here...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159915182499307142006-10-03T15:38:00.000-07:002006-10-03T15:45:34.216-07:00NOW HERE'S A COMBOThe wealthy AND powerful -- we run society for these people! No wonder the whole thing's out of control, given that one could only ascend to such heights out of the narrow pursuit of (owning) class interest. Government of, by, and for the rich -- who says it's not a commodity?Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159769434560938012006-10-01T23:09:00.000-07:002006-10-01T23:10:35.483-07:00NO PICKERS FOR PEAR BOUNTYRead here... capital must screw agribusiness in order to repress labor through the "illegal immigrant" standard -- this is what you get when you have a system where capital can move from country to country according to the standard of "free trade," yet labor must remain in its own sacred nation... yeah, build that wall, screw some more agribusinesses...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159580855504545752006-09-29T18:43:00.000-07:002006-09-29T18:57:23.616-07:00NOW THAT THE POLICE STATE IS MOBILIZED AGAINST DRUG OFFENDERSNow that the war on drugs has made the US into a police state, they're trying to make "we think you don't like us" into a crime punishable by indefinite imprisonment without trial...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159465851228103472006-09-28T10:50:00.000-07:002006-09-28T10:50:51.396-07:00NEW POSSIBILITY IN BRAZILLula now has a challenger from the left...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159378393264751502006-09-27T10:32:00.000-07:002006-09-27T10:33:13.696-07:00THE PRICE WE PAY FOR THE IDEOLOGY OF THE FREE MARKETWell, first of all, pricier health care...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159309658344623252006-09-26T15:27:00.000-07:002006-09-26T16:07:49.550-07:00LAKOFF AGAIN: MORE PROGRESSIVE SELF-CRITICISMIn a previous piece, I suggested that Left self-criticism that looked at "linguistic" grounds to analyze the Left's decline were misguided, and that we really ought to look elsewhere to understand why the Left doesn't win elections and run the US government. Now, in a recent edition of alternet.org, George Lakoff is at it again: this time, he tries toSamuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1159038443880751612006-09-23T12:06:00.000-07:002006-09-23T12:07:24.040-07:00SIGN THE AMY GOODMAN/ DEMOCRACY NOW PETITIONhttp://www.petitiononline.com/democnow/petition.htmlhttp://www.petitiononline.com/democnow/petition.html*PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD WIDELY*!To: Amy Goodman, Democracy NowHi Amy,Could you please invite Howie Hawkins, who's running for US Senate in New York against Hillary Clinton? He wants the troops out of Iraq now, Medicare for all, Equal Marriage Rights Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1158868629689957092006-09-21T12:50:00.000-07:002006-09-21T13:02:39.126-07:00AFRICA AS WASTE DUMPSee here -- Europe is doubtless too crowded and too full of Roman ruins, nature preserves, champagne farms, and other space-using mechanisms, so they doubtless figured, why not Africa? Someone must pay capitalism's price...Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776911.post-1158849279827886982006-09-21T07:15:00.000-07:002006-09-21T07:34:40.450-07:00IF THE US IS IN IRAQ TO PREVENT CIVIL WAR...How is it that 70 percent of the roadside bombs laid in this "civil war" are aimed at US troops?How is it that an "overwhelming majority" of Iraq's Sunnis support "the insurgency"?Samuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10150343141288433418noreply@blogger.com0