Monthly Archives: November 2012

The Rise of the Far Right in Poland and Europe (opinion) By Gavin Rae

I CARE – News – Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe – 25/11/2012- As the Eurozone economy slips once again into recession, so the social consequences of the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s are having their effect. Throughout Europe, growing…

More strangeness in the wide weird world of literature…

Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words, book claims | Books | The Guardian – An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous…

Gaza 2012: On the Use and Abuse of Hatred and Violence

Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians by OREN BEN-DOR Yet another massacre is unfolding in Gaza, the largest prison in the world. We are surrounded by familiar chatter: ???Israel???s right to defend itself???; ???Palestinians??? legitimate resistan…

The Voting Politics of Black and Brown Skin In Focus (FWR-11.14.2012)

Summary: What exactly are African people in the US voting for when they vote for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? What about Jill Stein? What about Racial Profiling? What about African Diaspora communal needs and concerns as we move further int…

Where do you Stand on this issue?

Rosa Rubicondior: Do You Disagree With God About Slavery? – If you’re a humanist and/or an Atheist you’ll have no doubt at all: abolition of slavery was one of the great social advances and righted a monstrous and hideous wrong. But, if you’re a C…

Archie Shepp: Blackness in music…

Archie Shepp – The People’s Minister of Information JR alongside jazz historian Duane Deterville interviews jazz legend Archie Shepp about his career playing with Miles and Coltrane, as well as his opinions on racism in the jazz world.

Understanding the theological background behind ‘Operation Pillar of Cloud’

Israel deliberately forgets its history – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition – Is the Bible a historical text? Writing during the early half of the 19th century, the first modern Jewish historians, such as Isaak Markus Jost (1793-1860) and Le…

Witnessing Genocide in The Gaza…

Gaza: Israel approaching “genocidal threshold”? | New Jewish Resistance – In news that shocked the world Nov. 18, an Israeli bomb destroyed a Gaza City home, killing 11 people, including nine from three generations of a single family???from a grandm…

Operation Pillar of Cloud — Self-Defence or Genocide? (FWR-11.18.2012)

Summary: A brief Indigenist news report on ???Operation Pillar of Cloud???, the recent military offensive against The Gaza, with analysis and observations from international human rights activist Ali H.D. speaking from the UK. Featured Speakers/Commen…

Is this how to pursue a ‘Peace Process’?

Israeli peace activist says Hamas??? Jabari received truce document???and Israel knew | JTA – Jewish & Israel News – JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin said that hours before Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas military l…

Targeting media is not a new tactic for Israel…

Israeli spokesperson admits to targeting journalists in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada: By the Israeli army???s own admission, they knew journalists were in the building at which they fired: ???We obviously knew there were journalists in the building,…

Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies November 21, 2010

Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination By David North 23 November 2010 The subject of this panel is a man who remains, even 70 years after his assassination by a Stalinist agent, a relentlessly contemporary figure. Trotsky wa…

The Origins of the White Hispter

BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: WHITE NEGRO FOR MAYOR – This Thursday Londoners will vote to elect a new city mayor, and I thought it would be a good moment to put up a great documentary about how Norman Mailer stood for Mayor of New York in 1969. It is a…