Showing posts with label Democracy Has Perished. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy Has Perished. Show all posts
4.18.2015
SPDF Day 47: “I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don’t get turd lung disease.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show?CMP=fb_gu
SPDF Day 47: “In the global scene we are racing towards a precipice which we are determined to fall over which will sharply reduce the prospects for decent survival.”
http://www.euronews.com/2015/04/17/chomsky-says-us-is-world-s-biggest-terrorist/
4.16.2015
4.15.2015
***** SPDF Day 44: Man Kills Himself Holding 'Tax The 1%' in Front of the Capitol -- and Nobody Hears About It The exhortation of the unknown man's sign is focused and direct, and frighteningly accurate.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/man-kills-himself-holding-tax-1-front-capitol-and-nobody-hears-about-it
4.14.2015
SPDF Day 43: I am on day 43 of this fast. I had hoped that it would work out to take it to completion....
I am on day 43 of this fast. I had hoped that it would work out to take
it to completion. It has become clear to me that that may not be the
case. It is probably 30% yes, 70% no, at this point. I've written
several times on my blog the reason behind these probabilities. I expect
to go another 2 or 3 weeks, and decide then, tho, lol, the choice could
be taken out of my hands by body failure, but that is an
inconsequential price to pay given all that is at stake in the world.
Without another 2-3 weeks of this fast I'll not have made my full
statement. Yes, no one is listening, even the few that used to, a
little, but that is not my business. Mine is to speak the Truth, the
emergency, the absolute need to put and keep our lives TOTALLY in the
way of the unfolding Armageddon (Palestine, Eocide, American Fascism)
as fully and clearly and loudly and unequivocally as I see it. And this
I shall do.
SPDF Day 43: Noam Chomsky: America hates its poor Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on our country's brutal class war -- and why it's ultimately so one-sided
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/01/noam_chomsky_america_hates_its_poor_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
4.13.2015
SPDF Day 42: Our Coming Theocratic Hell: The Right’s “Religious Freedom” Push Is Just the BeginningReligion is far too dangerous to our liberties to be laughed off or mischaracterized as harmless.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/our-coming-theocratic-hell-rights-religious-freedom-push-just-beginning
SPDF Day 42: 8 striking parallels between the U.S. and the Roman Empire Is our republic coming to an unceremonious end? History may not be on America's side
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/8_striking_parallels_between_the_u_s_and_the_roman_empire/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
4.12.2015
5. Silicon Valley’s culture is hurting our economy. Politicians like to celebrate the tech industry as a boon to the economy, but for most Americans the opposite is true. As economist Joseph Stiglitz and others have documented, monopoly practices exert a significant drag on the economy. The economy becomes increasingly capital-driven, rather than labor-driven. Monopolies suppress wages, overcharge consumers, mistreat suppliers, and drive the economy increasingly off-course.
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/rise_of_the_techno_libertarians_the_5_most_socially_destructive_aspects_of_silicon_valley_partner/
4.10.2015
4.07.2015
SPPDF Day 36: Business of backlash: GOP cashes in on Koch/Adelson anti-BDS donations
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/business_of_backlash_gop_cashes_in_on_kochadelson_anti_bds_donations/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
SPDF Day 36: Robert Reich: Colleges, Churches and Non-Profits Doing the Wealthy's Dirty Work It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-colleges-churches-and-non-profits-doing-wealthys-dirty-work
4.06.2015
***** SPDF Day 35: "The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear...." MUST READ.
The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations — benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old — never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence against Palestinians.
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