Well, not really disarming, and EpiPens are typically used on the leg, but it is encouraging to hear conversation center around “price gouging” etc. Of course the conversation goes right past the implications of this in relation to the so-called “free market,” and capitalism in general, to hone in on …
“…the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK). Formally a Marxist-Leninist political party which fought to establish an independent Kurdish state called Kurdistan. However, under the guidance of their leader Abdullah Öcalan, the party changed its platform and strategy. After Öcalan‘s imprisonment during which he corresponded with American …
This is the secret of wealth; find the starving and destitute, pay them half a crown, and make them produce five shillings worth in the day, amass a fortune by these means, and then increase it by some lucky hit, made with the help of the State. The Conquest of …
source This week (mp3) on CounterSpin: The Movement for Black Lives has never relied on corporate media to get their message out. But the coalition’s newly released policy platform does provide an opportunity for journalists—sometimes given to ponder what black activists are for—to engage those ideas. We’ll hear about A …
source When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on the state of …
An interview with Clara Bingham, who interviewed activists, organizers, and radicals of the late 1960s: wnyc.org/story/clara-bingham-witness-revolution more interviews w/ a few audio outtakes from her book: clarabingham.com/media/ The activism and protests continue like gnats up against a woolly mammoth, with about the same bite and result against the giant that is the …
A Hello to Arms: A New Generation of Steely-Gazed Anarcho-Communists Head Off to Syria: Village voice
nice sound bites of Steinem on “hierarchy” and “ask the turtle” @ around 33 min, etiquette @ 41: Episode 325 of Dinner Download Everyone matters “We have hierarchies of all kinds in this country…and I find in traveling that they begin to disappear…if you listen they don’t mean that much…expectations …
Theodore Burczak criticizes Israel M. Kirzner, in “A Critique of Kirzner’s Finders-Keepers Defense of Profit,” using Ellerman and some other angles, and Kirzner responds: “I believe, however, that there is a logical non-sequitur in Burczak’s application of this reasoning to claim a contradiction between (a) my position that the laborer, …