Neocolonialism and Noise
The world has changed over the past fifty years. There are different names for this change — neoliberalism, postmodernism, postfordism, globalization. The term i prefer to use is “neocolonialism”. But…
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Gerry Hannah on the Subhumans, Julie Belmas, and his solo album
It’s just that I’m really not that interested in playing punk rock anymore. I sometimes feel like punk rock, not necessarily the way the songs are supposed to go, but…
Losing My Religion (by André Moncourt)
Recently one of those issues that arises constantly to tangle up leftists and liberals reared its head in my little world. Some folks (all of European decent) in a band…
Rally and Hearing for Deepan in Montreal!
(/français ci-dessous/) Rally and Hearing for Deepan in Montreal! http://ift.tt/1D2SoxV Monday, 13 July, 8amImmigration and Refugee Board,Guy Favreau Complex (200 René Lévesque Blvd.), Montreal Deepan Budlakoti, our comrade and friend,…
Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study
The four-year study tracked nearly 900 women at three Canadian universities, randomly selecting half to take the 12-hour “resistance” program, and compared them to a second group who received only…
Terror Incognita
A useful series of musings on consent, seduction, and queerness in the realms of sex and politics; from the people at Crimethinc source: http://ift.tt/MzuvD0 on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://ift.tt/1So5COP
7 Fortune 500 companies with the most employees
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Are Beethoven’s African Origins Revealed By His Music?
There are two reasons he was careful to organize his image for posterity. First, he must have thought that the rumours and social pressures existing during his lifetime would continue…
What I Do Know: The Colonial Evisceration of Cindy Gladue
What I do know is that Cindy Gladue was not killed by an Indian man. Bradley Barton is a white man. I suppose, however, that Cindy Gladue’s case wouldn’t even…
Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia
This essay investigates the explosive Soviet interest in space travel during the New Economic Policy (NEP) era of the 1920s, as expressed through amateur societies, the press, literature, painting, film,…
The Idea of Muslim National Communism: On Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Not having any pretensions of giving an overview of all of Muslim national communism, I am interested here in someone who remains its major figure, the Tartar Bolshevik intellectual and…
THOSE MYTHOLOGICAL MEN AND THEIR SACRED, SUPERSONIC FLYING TEMPLES
From this anxiety of imitation, it is a short step to seeking authenticity in texts from the past, even if one of those texts is itself a modern imitation. The…
The Deep State: Germany, Immigration, and the National Socialist Underground
A weakness of large parts of the “left” opposition and the radical Left becomes apparent: after the pogroms of the early ’90s many abandoned the working class as a revolutionary…
Ideology and Practices (publicautonomy.org)
Some examples? Let’s start with something — an opinion or claim — that is not ideology, even though it might seem to be. Here’s one: “Canada is a democratic society…
Un employé municipal sur deux en banlieue
Profession • % des employés qui ne résident pas à MontréalPompiers 82%Policiers 81%Contremaîtres 62%Cadres 49%Cols Bleus 48%Professionnels 38%Cols Blancs 32%Brigadiers 5%Total 49% source: http://ift.tt/1HLR0Up on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://ift.tt/1dhTqzI
Grandstanding
grand·stand??ran(d)?stand/ verb derogatorygerund or present participle: grandstandingseek to attract applause or favorable attention from spectators or the media.“they accused him of political grandstanding” Just saying: i think there is a…
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies
Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The…
A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End: A Question to the Leadership
It is said that history repeats itself. There is some truth to be found within this statement. All existing matter, be it organic or inorganic, and social phenomenon alike, have…
Autonomedia Books via Leftwingbooks.NET
Autonomedia described itself as “an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media. We publish books on radical media, politics and the arts that seek to transcend…
Interesting (online) Things i have read recently
Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? – The evolving ideology of the PKK, by Alex de Jong, International Viewpoint, March 11, 2015 What kind of Kurdistan for women? (+ video), by…