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Neoliberalism and home care | Linchpin – website of Ontario anarchist organization Common Cause
“without the massive amounts of unpaid work done in the home, primarily by women, capitalism would grind to a halt.”
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Pressure that gives women fewer options other than to engage in work that is underpaid or unpaid “is a strategic way of maintaining profit for a few… The unpaid labour that is often invisible is strategic in that.”
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“most obvious” way neoliberalism has increased pressure to engage in unpaid work in Canada is “in cutbacks of what we call the welfare state.” This refers to the array of social programs enacted mostly after the Second World War which provide services in ways that socialize the costs and which support people living in need. Particularly since the mid-1990s in Canada, the welfare state has been under attack by business lobbies and many governments.
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“The longstanding problems of New Orleans’ criminal justice system were documented by Amnesty in its 2010 report Un-Natural Disaster: Human Rights in the Gulf Coast. Now, six years after the levees broke in New Orleans, there is an opening for deep, lasting change in New Orleans Police Department (NOPD).”
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حزب الله وسلوك «الأخ الأكبر» | الأخبار
“أغفلت «الأخبار»، بحسب متابعتي اليومية لها، على نحو لافت، أخباراً ضجت بها وسائل الإعلام الأخرى تخص سلوكيات شاذة لحزب الله في القرى الجنوبية، بينها تعرض عناصر من الحزب لأصحاب محال لبيع الكحول والتضييق عليهم لإقفال محالهم، لأسباب لا يخفى على أحد وجود نكهة إقصائية فيها لكل اختلاف في السلوك والمعتقدات،”
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“An analysis of the union protests against cuts in public spending in Czech in Autumn/Winter 2010. “
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WikiLeaks: Embassy’s “Privatization Update” Shows Shock Doctrine in Action in Haiti – Mediahacker
“Klein spells out the definition of shock doctrine: using shocking situations to push through legislation that would not be passed under normal circumstances. The shock doctrine is, as she states, a “democracy-avoidance strategy.” “
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Malaysia: Generation 709 Calls for Political Reforms · Global Voices
“Following the Bersih rally on the 9th of July, a group of young Malaysians have now come forward to continue calling for free and fair elections, calling themselves ‘Generation 709’.”
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Deadly Christian-Muslim clash in Nigeria – Africa – Al Jazeera English
“Gangs of armed youths in the Nigerian city of Jos attacked Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the last day of Ramadan, killing a number of them and burning their cars, witnesses and the military said.”
Archive for 31 أوت, 2011
My Bookmarx 08/31/2011
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My Bookmarx 08/30/2011
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240 Wikileaks cables on pharmaceutical data exclusivity | Knowledge Ecology International
Links to Wikileaks cables related to big Pharma
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” few weeks ago, in a conversation with U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Colonel Tim Nye, Nick Turse — one of the great investigative reporters on military power and national security — learned something truly shocking. He found out that, on any given day, American commandos are carrying out secret missions in 70 countries.”
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“The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported August 19, 2011 that there are about 594,800 people living in about 1000 displacement camps in Haiti. Most want to leave but have nowhere to go. Nearly 8000 people have been evicted in the last three months.”
My Bookmarx 08/29/2011
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Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
“A groundbreaking collection of oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror.”
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“Many developing countries owe huge debts to rich countries and to institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. This means that they have to spend a large proportion of their tax revenues on paying back rich western creditors, rather than meeting the basic needs of their own people. “
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Citizen’s Debt Audit for Ireland Launched » News » Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
“Details of an independent audit to be undertaken into providing a clear picture of Ireland’s national debt were unveiled in Dublin today (Wednesday, May 4th). “
My Bookmarx 08/28/2011
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“Without government or state, how does political autonomy work in the Zapatista zone? How do the people organize to get things done, like realizing a water system for the community?”
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In Roberto Arenas, like all Zapatista villages, the community assembly—with representatives from each household—meets in the community hall, weekly—or more frequently if there are things to decide. Together they determine the manner and method of developing their own village, taking into account what resources are available. Decisions are made by the assembly, preferably by consensus. If there is a split and no clear decision, the debates and discussions go on until the assembly reaches a consensus. Occasionally, this can take days on end. This is participatory democracy in action, warts and all.
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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide | Truthout
“Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve genetically engineered (GE) crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness giants like Monsanto and DuPont.”
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Taksim is not Tahrir—yet – Kadir Ateş | libcom.org
“Following the seismic upheavals in the Arab world, Kadir Ateş assesses the situation in Turkey. “
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What Really Happened in the Bin Laden Raid? | Mother Jones
“Details of the story don’t add up. Footage of the raid either exists or doesn’t. The tale of that night in Abbottabad keeps getting more muddled.”
My Bookmarx 08/27/2011
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“A number of anarchist journals and websites have criticised my own and my comrades’ activism in recent months and weeks. Criticism from the right is easy to dismiss. When it comes from comrades I know and respect, I need to take it seriously and come up with a considered response.”
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Some people have accused me of wanting to replace monarchist pageantry with some other self-promoting media spectacle. Actually, the project is to dissolve all such spectacle, opening the door to celebratory street parties, occupations, picket lines and, in general, popular revolution as ‘the carnival of the oppressed’. Glimpses of this have begun breaking out during moments of victory across the Arab world and more recently across Greece and Spain. Humour, dance and theatre maximise the difficulties for the media in portraying us as thugs. Anyway, liberation should be fun. As Emma Goldman said: ‘If I can’t dance in your revolution, it’s not my revolution’.
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it seems ironic that some anarchist organizations mirror many of the worst aspects of their Leninist and Trotskyist counterparts. They jealously guard their sectarian boundaries, promote their supposedly ‘correct’ theories, insist on being worthy and boring, insist that their radical ideas are the vital ingredient that the working class needs. The truth is that the working class doesn’t need any of this. Workers need information about their own solidarity, their own unity in action, their own ability to stand up to the bosses and liberate themselves, their own human creativity and potential. As workers become collectively empowered, they’ll work out their own theories, making use, perhaps, of some of the ideas we activists can provide.
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«ممنوع التغيير» مع طنطاوي: بقاء النظام عبر 1.3 مليار دولار | الأخبار
“من حقّ ثوّار مصر أن يخشوا «الثورة المضادّة»، لأنّ رمزاً أساسياً للنظام القديم، وزير الدفاع، محمد حسين طنطاوي، بات أقوى حكّام «مصر الجديدة».”
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Dangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance and Secrecy Worldwide
“As part of an emerging international trend to try to ‘civilize the Internet’, one of the world’s worst Internet law treaties–the highly controversial Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Cybercrime–is back on the agenda.”
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“لا ادرى اين نعيش فى هذا العالم وما جدوى وجود الهيئات والمنظمات الدولية وجامعة الدول العربية من جرائم نظام البشير فى السودان , لم اتصور فى حياتى ان تتحول العنصرية والاستبداد ضد الاقليات الاثنية والعرقية فى السودان الى عمل محارق لهم وهم احياء”
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“The sudden end of the Gaddafi regime some 6 months after the start of the Libyan revolt leaves some difficult questions unanswered for the left.”
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“The finishing touches are being added to the myth of the Libya war. A barrage of propaganda is convincing the world that the war is almost over. “
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Libyan “liberation” | Jewbonics
“Col. Muammar Qadhafi’s time as Libya’s ruler is over. The Arab Spring/Summer/Spirit-of-Tahrir is vindicated. Are you clapping? You’re in good company.”
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Yoshie Furuhashi, “The Rise and Fall of Libya”
” Will Muammar Gaddafi, refusing to follow the precedent set by Saddam, be willing and able to do “the one decent thing” left for him to do for Libya?”
My Bookmarx 08/26/2011
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Anti-Imperialism and the Iranian Revolution | libcom.org
“Arya Zahedi looks at the problems associated with anti-imperialist ideology during the Iranian revolution to cast light on struggles against the Islamic regime today. “
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This article attempts to discuss how, in the years leading up to the Iranian Revolution, objective and subjective factors contributed to the development of an ideology that was an amalgam of socialism, nationalism, and religious imagery which can broadly be described as a form of third-world populism. The contention here is that the struggle against imperialism so dominated political discourse in the two decades leading up to the revolution that it, in many ways, became a fetter on the struggle for socialism.
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The Mind of Egypt’s Military – By Michael Wahid Hanna | The Middle East Channel
“The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has been ruling Egypt since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. But the SCAF’s erratic decision-making process and its complete lack of transparency has left nearly everyone confused about its ultimate intentions. Many think that it aims to re-impose de facto military rule, and rumors swirl about its counter-revolutionary schemes and alleged secret deals.”
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Crisis in Africa: capitalism is to blame
“In the Horn of Africa, a famine is raging that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. For the first time in 30 years, the UN has officially declared a famine. The drought in East Africa has resulted in a food crisis across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya that has affected over 12 million people”
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the food crisis is a direct result of the colossal underdevelopment of the region, alongside the use of the most primitive agricultural methods. Under capitalism however, it is not possible to solve these problems. Farmers are too poor to purchase better tools or fertilisers, and the common grazing land that many villages rely on is increasingly fenced off and privatised for cash crops; coffee, cut flowers, beans and other ‘luxuries’ destined for western markets.
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“Tropical forests designated as strictly protected areas have annual deforestation rates much higher than those managed by local communities – reinforcing a challenge to a long-held belief that the best way to conserve forests is to lock them away in protected areas, according to a new study.”
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Anarchism, Foucault and the “Postmoderns” | Anarchist news dot org
“This article is published in the French anarchist journal Réfractions, May 2008 with several other texts about postmodernity, including one by Tomas Ibanez, to which this article refers.”
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Historically, the originality of anarchism rested in its critique and denunciation of the pitfalls and lies of modernity, but also, of course, in its capacity to think and adopt social and political practices which broke off severely with such a modernity; it broke up the schemes and procedures of the social and economic order that appeared in the last three centuries; and all this stemmed from new forces, new practices and new subjectivities, with the uncompromising rejection of all representation, the adoption of direct action, federalism, association and autonomy of beings struggling for their emancipation
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Treacherous Sympathy with Muslim Women – Qantara.de
“Ever since the attacks of 9/11, feminists in the West have increasingly used the theme of the oppression of women in Islam as justification for war and domination. This strategy of using this rhetoric of “saving the women” in the name of “civilization” is an old ploy used many times in the past by Western imperialists, writes Leila Ahmed”
My Bookmarx 08/25/2011
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With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas – Yahoo! News
“Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD has become one of the country’s most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies. A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government.”
My Bookmarx 08/24/2011
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Microfinancier aims to fuel Egypt’s recovery – FT.com
“An Egyptian microfinance company that specialises in lending to small and medium-sized companies is finding that its form of financing is gaining traction as emphasis shifts away from the country’s big business. “
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Verizon strike highlights need for new workers’ movement | libcom.org
“45,000 workers at US communications giant Verizon have been on strike for nearly two weeks. Adam Ford, of Infantile Disorder, examines the lengths the company and the state have gone to to undermine the strike. “
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The 45,000 American workers have been on strike for nearly two weeks, having not surprisingly rejected management’s demands. As the strike has worn on, the government has aggressively intervened on the side of the company, imposing strict anti-strike injunctions to facilitate strikebreaking, and setting up an FBI investigation into alleged ‘terrorist’ sabotage of the Verizon networks.
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The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins – NYTimes.com
” The fighting is not yet over in Tripoli, but the scramble to secure access to Libya’s oil wealth has already begun. “
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America in Decline – Noam Chomsky | libcom.org
“Noam Chomsky analyses the whithering of the American super-power and its causes. “
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USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable? – Yahoo! News
“Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That’s an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.”
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Google launches Insights MENA | Google | AMEinfo.com
“As internet penetration continues to grow in the region, the need for data on online behavior is becoming increasingly crucial for both consumers and businesses. Google MENA today announced the launch of their latest service, Insights MENA.”
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BBC NEWS | Business | Ecuador defaults on foreign debt
“Ecuador is to default officially on billions of dollars of foreign debt it considers “illegitimate”, says President Rafael Correa.”
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“كشف أحمد حسن أحد أعضاء هيئه الدفاع عن الناشط محمد منصور والذي صدر حكم من المحكمة العسكرية ببراءته من الاعتداء على لمنطقة الشمالية العسكرية اليوم عن تلقيه رسالة خطيه من محمد قبل صدور الحكم حكي فيها عن التعذيب والإهانة التي تعرض لها وزملائه في محبسه بسجن الحضرة وفي المنطقة الشمالية قبل نقله للسجن و عقب إلقاء القبض عليه ومعه 13 آخرين”
My Bookmarx 08/23/2011
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الليبيون في القاهرة يحتفلون بنجاح ثورتهم – YouTube
“احتفل المئات من أبناء الجالية الليبية بالقاهرة بانتصار الثورة الليبية، امام مقر سفارتهم، بالقاهرة، وردد المحتفلون هتافات تندد بمجازر القذافي وتحتفل بليبيا بعد رحيل العقيد. وأكد الليبيون انهم يدركون أن بلادهم ستمر بفترة إضراب إلا أنها ستجتازها”
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Libya News: Inside the Rebels’ Secret Endgame – The Daily Beast
“How did Tripoli fall so suddenly? The Daily Beast’s Fadel Lamen, who was with rebel leaders in Libya last week, reveals their strategy, and a secret plea from a Gaddafi deputy. “
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الأخبار – دولي – الغرب يبحث ترتيبات ما بعد القذافي
“دأ المجتع الدولي وخاصة دول الغرب بحث ترتيبات الوضع في ليبيا بعد
سقوط العاصمة طربلس في يد الثوار واختفاء العقيد معمر القذافي، بينما بادر المجلس الوطني الانتقالي الليبي إلى طمأنة دول العالم بشأن الوضع في البلاد.” -
Analysis: If Libyan rebels win, can they rule? | Reuters
“Now Tripoli has risen, the main uncertainty is not whether Muammar Gaddafi’s rule will survive, but whether the rebels can prevent Libya descending into chaos after he has gone.”
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Who can unite Libya if Gaddafi falls? | Reuters
“Libyan rebel Husam Najjair seems more concerned about the possibility of rebels turning on each other when they try to take control of the capital Tripoli than the threat posed by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.”
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“It appears interim regime doesn’t want to exploit recent events as means to scrap relationship with Israel., nor does it want popular protest movements to formulate Egypt’s foreign policy. “
My Bookmarx 08/22/2011
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“What’s the difference between Bay Area Rapid Transit and the Mubarak regime in Egypt? That’s an irresponsible question. They are not at all alike. Mubarak was a brutal dictator; BART is a public agency under an elected government. I’ll try again: What should the difference be between BART and Mubarak?”
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