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Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere
What can educators and others concerned about the future of higher education do to make sure it is not colonized by corporate and other antidemocratic interests? First, educators & others need to figure out how to defend more vigorously higher education as a public good & how central it is in producing the formative culture necessary to educate young people to be critical & engaged....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2023 2:33am PST
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks by Israel
New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety. "As first reported by Politico, Clements was the first to identify spoofing most likely coming from Israel after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. “The strong and persistent spoofing we're seeing over Israel since around October 15 is almost certainly being carried out by Israel itself,” Humprheys said. “The IDF effectively admitted as much ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2023 6:45pm PST
Reclaiming the word “apartheid”
By Nkululeko Nkosi – 3rd February 2017
(https://africansforpeace.com/reclaiming-word-apartheid/)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2023 1:18pm PST
The four-day week as a transformation project
The pandemic, environmental disasters and the current wars have ushered in a new era, a kind of "turning point". As the demand for a reduction in working hours is shared by a broad majority of employees across generations (Lott/Windscheid 2023), this offers the opportunity to produce a conflict that has the potential to have an impact and contribute to renewing the trade union movement....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2023 4:33am PST
Ten thousand acts of graffiti vandalism in solidarity with the people of Palestine
A communique from a bay area anarchist writer engaged in an endless campaign against all forms of captivity and colonization...
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2023 4:34pm PST
The Solution is Social Housing
The Swedish government set a goal of building 1 million new units in the mid-1960s when the population was only 8 million (or about the same size as New York City). Despite a few setbacks and problems, this goal was achieved in less than a decade — We suggest that 10 million new municipal housing units would be a viable ten-year goal....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 7:18am PST
'Why should you get to eat in peace?': Canadians slam Trudeau's Gaza stance
The protesters can also be heard urging Trudeau to “look at us” and using phrases like “shame on you,” “you fund genocides” and “you have blood on your hands” as they chased Trudeau out of the restaurant and into the street with the crowd growing impatient. Vancouver police was forced to deploy almost 100 officers after videos showing swarms of people confronting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a restaurant Tuesday night went viral. approximately 250 people surrounded a Chinatown restaurant ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 11:00pm PST
Israel bombs Gaza’s only operating wheat mill
Israel has intensified its war of starvation against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday, as a means of subjugation during the bloody 40-day war....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:34pm PST
Joint open letter on transfer of 155mm artillery shells to Israel
155mm artillery shells do not serve legitimate defense needs and pose a grave risk to civilians. Under the current circumstances, granting the government of Israel access to these munitions would undermine the protection of civilians, respect for international humanitarian law, and the credibility of the Biden administration. For these reasons, we strongly urge you to withhold authorization for this transfer of 155mm artillery shells to the government of Israel....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:20pm PST
How much oil and gas does Palestine have?
The UN Conference on Trade and Development Report offers precise details on oil reserves. According to the report, the occupied Palestinian territories have 1.525 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 5:55pm PST
The military will not solve a single problem
Solidarity could also be understood & implemented differently: as a concept that reduces violence and aims at protecting human lives in concrete terms. This includes not only refugee aid, humanitarian aid & all conceivable diplomacy. It is also important to examine whether social resistance measures planned for the short term make sense in this highly escalated situation....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 11:27am PST
Pacific groups call on Leaders to reconsider diplomatic relations with Japan
Wednesday 8th November, 2023
The Pacific Collective on Nuclear Issues, composed of civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and movements in the Pacific, denounces once again the dumping of radioactive
wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear powerplant into the Pacific Ocean as the only solution available. The Collective also condemns the Government of Japan and the facility operator, Tokyo Electric
Power Company (TEPCO), for insisting on this flawed and dangerous course ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 11:12pm PST
Too big to fail, too weak to lead
Through the World Bank and IMF, they were able to push through privatization and the dismantling of social benefits and trade union rights in the over-indebted countries of the South. They also pursued this policy domestically, while corporations and the upper income brackets were spoiled with tax gifts. There were also massive arms orders....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 5:26am PST
Israel targets school in Al-Shati refugee camp with white phosphorus
The local Al-Aqsa channel reported that Israeli war jets targeted an UNRWA school in the Al-Shati camp with internationally banned incendiary white phosphorus weapons....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2023 4:01am PDT
"Alameda County" Courthouse Attacked for Palestinian Martyrs
"It is never possible to balance liberatory violence with the conditions of struggle. The process of liberation is excessive by nature. In the direction of overabundance or in that of deficiency. Where have we ever seen a popular insurrection hit the bullseye, clearly distinguishing the enemies to kill? It is a blow of the tiger’s claws that rips and does not distinguish." Alfredo Bonanno...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2023 11:34pm PDT
Capitalism as Mental Illness
As to the stress mechanism, Adam Smith supplied that with his theory of “selfish interest” providing collective benefit. And while it’s inarguable that being forced to compete in a self reinforcing and ever accelerating rat race has provided us with many industrial and technological milestones, we must ask ourselves: at what cost? The fracture of social cohesion?...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2023 8:21am PDT
The Israel-Palestine Conflict as an Echo of the Holocaust
Are the US and the "West" using the Israel-Palestine conflict for their own purposes?
This article by Bruce Neuberger entitled "Israel's Kristalnacht" appeared October 25, 2023 in Counterpunch...
Posted: Sun, Oct 29, 2023 9:04pm PDT
Qualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of Work is Necessary Today
Capital has increasingly decoupled itself from directly expended labor, and accumulation is now taking place predominantly on the level of financial markets... In large parts of the Global South, the majority has long since been declared ‘superfluous’...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2023 5:20am PDT
"A total mockery of international law"
Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that whoever is attacked militarily has such a right of defense. This is true in this case as well: Israel can defend itself against Hamas' attack, but this comes with the caveat that such defense must always be proportionate....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2023 8:01am PDT
How can we regain peace and how can we keep it?
There is no doubt that Mahatma Gandhi is right. Peace does not come from the motivation of fear, on the contrary, only from the strength of one’s own person; through loyalty to oneself, and through the courage to have one’s own conscience. In Indian: Satyagraha (persistent adherence to the truth), “think for yourself” Kant would have said, “remain yourself.”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2023 2:02am PDT