Religious Fundamentalism. An ambivalent phenomenon of the modern age (tags)
The conclusion that Thomas Meyer repeatedly puts forward is obvious: "Fundamentalism proves to be an indeterminate negation of the foundations of Enlightenment and modernization."
The Last Stage of the Middle Class (tags)
The emancipatory overcoming of the modern commodity-producing system and the associated separation requires a social intervention on a high level. The second article "The Collapse of Modernization" was published in Oct 2004. Robert Kurz, editor of the German leftist Krisis journal, died too early at 69.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change. (tags)
Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.
Why are the Lambs Silent? (tags)
Techniques-fragmentation and propaganda- make serious violations of moral norms by the ruling elites morally and cognitively invisible to the population. With many examples, professor Mausfeld gives insight in the management of our democracy and how people are kept in apathy.
Putting Charleston Killings in Context (tags)
violence
The Mendacious Maps of Disappearing Palestine (tags)
Anti-Israel activists often use doctored maps to show Israel’s supposed malfeasance over the past century. Such claims are made by people who, in the best case, have no knowledge of the facts, and in the worst case, have no moral compass.
Christopher Dorner's Manifesto, Annotated (tags)
On the one month anniversary of Christopher Dorner’s death: a new, heavily annotated edition of his manifesto. 127 footnotes provide extensive historical context for Dorner’s grievances with, and criticisms of, the Los Angeles Police Department.
Is America going dumb as well as fascist? (tags)
Is it something in the food or on TV?
Whose the Real Hypocrite Secretary Clinton? (tags)
"In the context of President Obama’s statement last weekend that those who urge the US to take stronger action against the Honduras coup regime “think that it’s appropriate for us to suddenly act in ways that in every other context they consider inappropriate,” calling it “hypocrisy.” The revelation that Clinton and MCC have already sanctioned the elected government of Nicaragua and its private sector in ways that it so far refuses to sanction the illegal coup regime of Honduras and its private backers has revealed one important fact: That Washington has already determined that “it’s appropriate” to deny MCC funds to a country for lighter and more transient reasons than those that exist to sanction a coup regime in another. Didn’t a certain US President, last weekend, speak the word “hypocrisy” in the context of the US and the Honduras coup?"
Norms and values
Unqualified Slogans: “Win” and “Way Forward” (tags)
As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception?
Heavenly aspirations--a radically critical approach (tags)
a radical's radical approach to what most alleged "radicals" appear to take largely for granted. Comments on New Age-type ideas of heaven and "distancing" oneself from "the ego"/social reality.
The Propaganda Message is the Context not the Content (tags)
After years of struggle, now it is time to turn the tables on the IMF, the World Bank, the G8, and the Capitalist Media System, et al, by pulling the same stunt on them that they have been pulling on everyone else for years...
The War of Everyday Life, manufacture of consent and watering down dept (tags)
Of late i've been noticing a new deployment of coercion being reflected from a lot of college students. It appears that the Wizards of Is (or, Oz, pick your poison) have sent a new obfuscation order down to their implementers, or something where people's experiences and intuitions are reduced down to "mere opinions", while "reputable" views are somehow "more equal"!
The Sage of Imperialism: Harry Magdoff (tags)
This conference report was published in: Monthly Review Newsletter, Summer 2003. "Neoconservative hawks should be seen as frustrated outsiders involved in a desperate gamble to shore up declining US power by throwing legitimacy to the winds."
Scott Ritter Press Conference, Jul 10th - Bush Lies Context (tags)
On July 10th, Scott Ritter held a press tele-conference at Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield, Massachusetts. Ritter addresses recent media coverage of Bush Administration lies and provides further context and perspective on where we're heading. Attached is an mp3 audio file of the event; 1:04:38 runtime.
Leftist take on 9-11 Conspiracists (tags)
Nice little articale from commondreams.org
King George and the Administration of Fear-VIDEO (tags)
Check out my Bush speech recontextualized-VIDEO.
Holes in the Official Story - 911 in Context (tags)
this is part of a feature written a few months ago for Portland IMC. as congress and the mainstream media finally start asking some questions about who knew what when, it's important to understand the context surrounding 911 - what the hell is going on here??
Peace Activist Brian Willson on S11 and its context (tags)
Brian Willson offers his analysis of S11 and its context at http://www.brianwillson.com (where you can find links to the seven lengthy essays listed below). Here is his brief introductory statement on S11:
radio free palms (los angeles) schedule Tuesday 8/22/00 (tags)
Radio Free Palms schedule this Tuesday! - issues context background to the movement !
Protest coverage: issues and context on internet radio station (tags)
Information on context and issues of the Los Angeles protests - Internet radio station
Protest coverage: issues and context on internet radio station (tags)
Information on context and issues of the Los Angeles protests - Internet radio station