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Freedom Rider: The “Resistance” Is Silent on Julian Assange
By Margaret Kimberly Source: Black Agenda Report Liberals are just as much true believers in imperialism as the right wing they claim to oppose. “Attacking the person who revealed war crimes is compliance in the service of the state.” Ever … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Chelsea Manning, Collateral Murder, corporate media, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, Liberals, Mainstream Media, media, MSM, police state, resistance, State Crime, war, war crimes, WikiLeaks
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The Cost of Resistance
By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig Resistance entails suffering. It requires self-sacrifice. It accepts that we may be destroyed. It is not rational. It is not about the pursuit of happiness. It is about the pursuit of freedom. Resistance accepts … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Empire, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, society, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged activism, Art, corporatocracy, Courage, culture, empire, Freedom, happiness, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocracy, politics, resistance, Sacrifice, society
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The Seeds of Anti-Capitalist Revolt Found in Everyday Resistance: A Review of Guerrillas of Desire – Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter (AK Press, 2017)
By Scott Campbell Source: Institute for Anarchist Studies Back when I first began selling my labor for a wage in the wasteland of suburbia’s strip malls, I can recall the tedium of stocking shelves, summoning up insincere courtesy in the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Labor, Philosophy, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Anarchism, capitalism, culture, Economics, Guerrillas of Desire, Labor, Marxism, Radicals, resistance, Revolution, Social Organization, society, Work, Working Class, Zapatistas
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Newsletter: From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: Dissident Voice The work to transform society involves two parallel paths: resisting harmful systems and institutions and creating new systems and institutions to replace them. Our focus in this article is on positive work that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Energy, Philosophy, Revolution, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Community Land Trusts, Cooperatives, Decentralization, Democracy, Economic Democracy, Economics, empire, Empire Economy, Ethics, Friedrich Hayek, imperialism, John Maynard Keynes, Mutual Aid, Neoliberalism, Public Banks, Public Finance, resistance, Solar Energy, Styagraha, Swaraj, Universal Basic Income
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FIGHTING FOR OKINAWA — MY HOME, NOT A MILITARY BASE
By Moé Yonamine Source: Rethinking Schools My family moved to the United States from Okinawa when I was 7. But Okinawa is still home — and I’m hurt and angered at how the United States and Japan continue to treat … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, culture, education, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, anti-war, culture, empire, environment, Futenma, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, imperialism, Japan, Militarism, Military, Okinawa, Peace, resistance, U.S. Foreign Policy, Uchinanchu, United States, US Military Bases, World War 2
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Globalisation: Hyperstition, Surveillance, and the Empire of Reason
By S.C. Hickman Source: Techno Occulture Edmund Berger in his essay Underground Streams speaking of various tactics used by the Situationists, Autonomia, and the Carnivalesque: “Like the Situationists the Autonomia would engage with the tradition of the Carnivalesque alongside a Marxist political … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Hackers, hacktivism, media, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, war
Tagged Activists, anonymous, Autonomia, Chaos, Corporate Globalization, Deep State, Dystopia, Globalism, Globalization, Hackers, Hacktivists, Hegemony, Hyperrealism, Mass Media, National Security State, Neoliberalism, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Post Moderrnism, resistance, simulacra, Situationists, Social Movements, Sociology, surveillance, surveillance state, technosphere, war
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Love, Western Nihilism and Revolutionary Optimism
By Andre Vltchek Source: Dissident Voice How dreadfully depressing life has become in almost all of the Western cities! How awful and sad. It is not that these cities are not rich; they are. Of course, things are deteriorating there, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Empire, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged culture, France, imperialism, media, Narrative, Opinion, Philosophy, propaganda, resistance, Revolution, Socialism, society, Solidarity, United Kingdom
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The Price of Resistance
By Chris Hedges Source: OpEdNews.com In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, Empire, History, Philosophy, Racism, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, anti-war, corporatocracy, Dissidents. culture, empathy, empire, evil, Faith, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocracy, Power, Radical, Rebels, resistance, Ruling Elites, society, spirituality, Totalitarianism, war
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