30 November 2020

Nuremberg Trial: 75 years Ago and What it Means Today

On Saturday 21 November 2020 Russia celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials which started on 20 November 1945 and lasted almost a year, until 1 October 1946. The Tribunal was given the task of trying and judging 24 of the most atrocious political and military leaders of the Third Reich. […] The post Nuremberg Trial: 75 years Ago and What it Means Today first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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COVID-19: The Way the Music Died?

“Why,” Candice Holdsworth asks at British web site spiked, “aren’t more artists standing up to lockdown?” “The lockdown has completely decimated the live-performance industry,” she writes. “And yet we hear very little from leading people in theatre, music and the arts criticising the lockdown and what it is doing to their industry.” There are exceptions. … Continue reading COVID-19: The Way the Music Died? → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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29 November 2020

Catalyst in detail: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:02:24

Trying to read the future forces us to check the will of history. Your attention is drawn to this selection from the 2013 futurist “Catalyst” thesis by Harry Bentham: “Because humans are only a transitory animal, being human at this time might necessitate being transhumanist in one’s hopes for the future – wanting to shape ourselves into something better. Nietzsche teaches that, as humans, we as a society must necessarily be in transit or we will regress to an inferior state of life. If we stop our journey and go against our transitory nature, becoming too comfortable in our shells, we fall. Even if we stumbled on our path, and produced calamity in our efforts to transform ourselves and the world for the sake of humanity’s own power and security, our nature as a changing society shall mean we are still right. Nietzsche’s ideas concerning human destiny and the risks entailed are quite clear. “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman – a rope over an abyss”, Nietzsche says, drawing an analogy between a fatal stunt and the need for humans to find value in life by striving for perfection and power in the world. Nietzsche’s contention is that humans are transitional creatures. No person or society can claim to be perfect or complete in their current state. At best, they can claim to be pioneers towards a better state.” The planet is already an experiment. No-one is above it. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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Starmer’s awful week ends on an even sourer note

It’s not been a good week for Keir Starmer. From National Executive Committee (NEC) walk-outs to briefing the Sun, the Labour leader has been … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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28 November 2020

US foreign policy to be stable, predictable again

Mont Order group: If we are to believe reports, Biden is expected to restore the US to similar policies to the Obama era, including when it comes to foreign policy. There have been reports that Biden wishes the US to rejoin agreements such as the Paris Agreement, JCPOA (Iran Deal), and nuclear arms reduction pacts with Russia. A less bellicose approach to China is expected. Unfortunately, Trump may complicate this before his exit. For those unaware: reports show that he asked for a military strike on Iran, and there has been a recent uptick in the regional violence surrounding Iran. These include Israeli strikes in Syria and Iran-allied militias employing waterborne IEDs against a targeted tanker off the shores of Yemen, in addition to a random assassination of a top Iranian scientist. The recent changes to the US military leadership to elevate more combat-hardened experts, and reduction of potentially vulnerable forces in nearby Afghanistan, also point to an impending attack. Something is definitely afoot, but whether it results in all-out war may be under Iran's control. Once Trump is out, these escalations will probably subside, replaced again with the slower and more patient strategies of the Obama years. Despite this, we cannot ignore the power of the Republicans in the US Senate. They will constantly be pushing for rash attacks in the Middle East region. It should be added that both Obama and Trump were unable to reverse the decline of US power. Both depended on symbolic sanctions and failed to consolidate US power in Europe, the Pacific, or the Middle East. The reversal of the US coups in Bolivia and Venezuela suggests the US on a losing streak there, once again. Biden's team likely can't prevent it. - LOrdreNet
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27 November 2020

Operation Parakram: A 10 month military stand off between India and Pakistan

Operation Parakram: A 10 month military stand off between India and Pakistan By Fidato P. Chidambaram was Home Minister of India during Mumbai Terror Attack.Continue reading - Voice of East
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26 November 2020

Whispers of Allegiance

How far will Caden Madison go to protect his apprentice? - Aral Bereux
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25 November 2020

How Netanyahu’s plans for the West Bank Annexation spell disaster for the Palestinians

How Netanyahu’s plans for the West Bank Annexation spell disaster for the Palestinians By Fidato Jews were 12% of the total population and held 3%Continue reading - Voice of East
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Labour briefing the Sun drags Keir Starmer’s week to a new low

Just when you think Keir Starmer’s Labour couldn’t sink any lower – it does. Because aside from the party actively shutting down its left … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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24 November 2020

Book Review: Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Great Anarchists (London: Dog Section Press, 2020)

Written by anarchist scholar Ruth Kinna (professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University and editor of Anarchist Studies) and illustrated by Ralph Harper (most famous for the illustrations in Radical Technology), this book is a collection of essays on ten anarchists that were originally published as stand-alone pamphlets.  The essays — not presented in chronological... - Kevin Carson
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America in Transition: What’s the Hurry?

A November 23 headline at ABC News reads: “Joe Biden’s presidential transition allowed to proceed after 16-day standoff.” The 16 days in question, ABC tells us, are the 16 days since Biden “clinched the presidency.” “Clinched the presidency” is ABC News-speak for “the media decided he won.” In point of fact, the 2020 presidential election … Continue reading America in Transition: What’s the Hurry? → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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22 November 2020

Thankful, 2020 Edition

It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States. Since 1942 by act of Congress, and intermittently before that since the arrival of British settlers in North America, Americans have enjoyed a Thursday holiday around the end of November. This year, the words of President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation ring especially true: “I recommend to them that … Continue reading Thankful, 2020 Edition → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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‘Letter to Corbyn’ mesmerised us. Now, he’s responded.

A tribute song to Jeremy Corbyn has officially entered the UK top 25 of the download charts. Its success shows several things – not … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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Kashmir, Pakistan and the issue of self-determination

Kashmir, Pakistan and the issue of self-determination By Professor Dr Imtiaz Kham All these years since the division of Indian sub-continent Pakistan has been consideredContinue reading - Voice of East
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Catalyst in detail: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 12:15:47

Your attention is drawn to this selection from the 2013 Catalyst Thesis: “The greatest obstacle… would be the prevailing notion of citizenship, and so the targeted de-legitimization of nations and citizenship is a worthy goal for any currents of techno-liberation. Such a goal can be achieved by thwarting the divisions among nations and thus violating the ideological mask maintaining global disparities. Differences of language and culture represent significant barriers that justify separation and disparity among groups in the global system. If technologies can be developed that allow for greater communication across borders, for example technologies that enhance what the internet is already doing and allow the language barriers to be eroded, then such technologies will help to undermine the social cohesion of nation-states. In turn, this action will force people to re-examine their identities in a more rational way. They may, in this process, de-legitimize and question the concepts of nation and citizen and turn to another basis of identity instead. In addition to breaking down the language barriers, the leaking of state information can also serve to de-legitimize the state and undermine its bullying power with the assistance of technology.” The whole earth is already an experiment. No-one is above it. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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Catalyst in detail: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:30:02

Time to take a look at the following: “Considering ease of travel and ease of communication, it is easy to say that borders are becoming porous and we are all already neighbors, as a result of what has been called time-space compression. This “global village” has led to our much greater global awareness and a huge level of cross-cultural understanding not previously known. This is true even if people have continued to omit their global awareness from much of their long-term political thinking, and still hold numerous mistaken or dated ideas about the world and how it should progress. It is reasonable to expect further social change with the inevitable universal spread of communication technology and the expansion of the internet. It is also possible to prepare for the proliferation and convergence of yet unrevealed liberating technologies in the coming decades, as already suggested in the previous chapter.With the internet and mobile phones already sufficiently incorporated in the human ‘political animal’, other gadgets are not far away from enhancing politics into something else altogether. Quite probably, such developments are going to lead to new kinds of regimes in the future, but it is hard to predict exactly what they might look like at present. They would come about as a result of the world-system ‘evolving’ and fluctuating, rather than our choices specifically, although our choices would impact this evolution as always. If the world was translated and communication became universal, this would represent an unprecedented awakening for humanity and a blow to all sectarianism and parochialism in the world. It would also allow for greater awareness of inequality in the world, and such a ‘transhuman’ development will make better political animals immune to schisms and differences.” We have seen the power in the DNA of our technology, and the sin is not to act boldly but to deny the human right to that power. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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20 November 2020

Netanyahu Seeks to Smash the Joint List and Cement Permanent Rule by Israel’s Far-Right

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is only weeks away from the scheduled start of his long-awaited corruption trial – the endgame in a series of investigations that have been looming over him for years. As a result, he has been taking extraordinary measures to save his political skin. One of the most surprising is his […] The post Netanyahu Seeks to Smash the Joint List and Cement Permanent Rule by Israel’s Far-Right first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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Mask Mandates: COVID-19 and the Law of the Instrument

“One day after the state reported a record 92 COVID-19-related deaths,” the Wisconsin State Journal‘s Mitchell Schmidt reports, “Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday he plans to extend the state’s emergency declaration and accompanying mask mandate through mid-January. … The current mask mandate was issued in July and extended by Evers in September.” The first two mask … Continue reading Mask Mandates: COVID-19 and the Law of the Instrument → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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18 November 2020

“Nazi Satan Death Cults” and other Mass Distractions

Recently, Dissident Voice contributor, the never-compromising class- and labor-blogger, Michael K. Smith, took on a dragon of the  progressive left whose slaying really seems long overdue. Writing in his typically potent style, Smith hammered out the following: How many times do we need to request a meaningless ‘denunciation’ of white supremacy? We, on what passes for […] The post "Nazi Satan Death Cults" and other Mass Distractions first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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The Top 10 Most Memorable Dystopian Quotes

Sometimes all you need are a few short sentences to summarise the current situation, or remind you of humanity's fragility. - Aral Bereux
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A newly-independent MP stole the PMQs limelight from Keir Starmer

Neither Boris Johnson nor Keir Starmer took centre stage during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesday 18 November. Because a newly-independent MP unintentionally took … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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Catalyst in detail: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:19:13

Your attention is drawn to the following: “The move for technology-powered emancipation would focus on finding ways of sustaining and keeping global welfare intact. Aspects of the world order that appear calculated to preserve the production process by keeping industrial secrets in the hands of the few are really aimed at keeping the production process maximally profitable. As technology races forward in terms of medicine, energy and agriculture, it will only become a scandal that it is being developed and used for purposes of profit rather than humanitarian needs. Techno-liberation actions could include a moral need to violate patents and security concerns to make more medical and food supplies available to the world poor.” We have seen the power in the DNA of our technology. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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17 November 2020

7 Tips for Millennials Who Want to Write a Book

Every generation faces unique challenges, especially now in the publishing space. - Aral Bereux
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Free Press = Free Assange

Covid-19 Global Solidarity Coalition presents an international webinar: SATURDAY November 21st – 20:00 EST (U.S.) The panelists will discuss the UK extradition trial of Julian Assange, the 18 criminal offenses conjured by the U.S., and how the case impacts the 99%. DANIEL ELLSBERG: Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower, former defense analyst, activist. MARJORIE COHN: Professor Emerita Thomas […] The post Free Press = Free Assange first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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Section 230 Doesn’t Need “Reform”

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 is under attack — disguised as a cry for “reform” — from politicians on both sides of the “major party” aisle. To what purpose? Well, let’s look at Section 230’s key provision: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the … Continue reading Section 230 Doesn’t Need “Reform” → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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16 November 2020

Forget the Unicorns, Photographer Captures Fairytale-Like Horses Roaming Iceland’s Landscape

(By Aral Bereux) American photographer Drew Doggett started his photography career in fashion but has since taken to the world, travelling in search of amazing landscapes and subjects to capture on film. Winning over 80 prestigious awards and honours for his world-renowned images and filmmaking, Doggett’s film techniques have helped him capture the true essence […] - Aral Bereux
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Pakistan Made A Compelling Case That India Is A State Sponsor Of Terrorism

Pakistan Made A Compelling Case That India Is A State Sponsor Of Terrorism By Andrew Korybko Pakistan released a detailed dossier during a press conference onContinue reading - Voice of East
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Por Que as Abordagens “Pequeno-Grande” e “Horizontal-Vertical” Importam Mais que “Público-Privado”

Kevin Carson. Título original: The Myth of the Private Sector, Part I: Why Big-Small and Vertical-Horizontal Trumps “Public-Private”, 5 novembro 2020. Traduzido por Gabriel Serpa. O Mito do Setor Privado, Parte I: Por Que as Abordagens “Pequeno-Grande” e “Horizontal-Vertical” Importam Mais que “Público-Privado” Hoje, 28 de outubro, Rachel McKinney, uma amiga e professora de Filosofia,... - Kevin Carson
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15 November 2020

How a Struggling Writer Paid Off $150,000 in Loans in 6 Years

Instead of sitting and waiting, watching her debt grow bigger, financial journalist Janet Alvarez decided to act. - Aral Bereux
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A Tory minister on Marr showed Cummings’ departure changes nothing

A comment by a Tory minister on the Andrew Marr Show was quite telling. In fact, it showed that even with Dominic Cummings out … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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America in Transition: How Joe Biden Can Score a Major Foreign Policy Win on Day One of His Presidency

“President-elect Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal,” writes Tom O’Connor at Newsweek. “But a return is set to face challenges on both sides as they attempt to rebuild trust in a radically different environment than five years ago.” Those challenges? “For one, Iranian officials see no room for renegotiation of the Joint … Continue reading America in Transition: How Joe Biden Can Score a Major Foreign Policy Win on Day One of His Presidency → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Catalyst in detail: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:20:56

Attempting to accurately predict things forces us to master an understanding of the secrets of history itself. Focus for a moment on this selection from the 2013 futurist “Catalyst” thesis by Harry Bentham: “We are currently able to witness transnational political actions, e.g. global protests and formation of transnational political will, to an extent that would be impossible before the internet. This is a trend that does not carry good news for the traditional Nineteenth Century nation-states we are living in. It undermines the capacity for any nation-state to live in isolation from world opinion, and to base decisions on some kind of national consensus independent of the political will of humanity. Such a possibility would likely not have been as notable in the past, because the expansion of the world-system seen today has been due to the increases in networking from better transport and communication technology. Because of this, the consequence of the internet is that the communication option, i.e. the ‘political’ option, of the global system becomes clearer to everyone.” The truths of modernity must be acted upon, techno-liberation is necessary. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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14 November 2020

‘Granny Killer’, Anti-Vax, Anti-Mask, Conspiracy: Only Human?

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India is a rogue state – Pakistan’s FM and DGISPR share proofs of Indian terrorism

India is a rogue state – Pakistan’s FM and DGISPR share proofs of Indian terrorism By News Desk Pakistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah MahmoodContinue reading - Voice of East
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13 November 2020

The Ramblings of a Self-confessed Liar, Cheater, and Thief

On 10 November 2020, the United States secretary-of-state Mike Pompeo, he of the ill-famed confession “We lied, we cheated, we stole,” spoke at the Ronald Reagan Institute. The liar Pompeo can even speak candidly, “I’ve talked about American exceptionalism. I did so in Brussels; I did it in Cairo; I did it in Jakarta, and […] The post The Ramblings of a Self-confessed Liar, Cheater, and Thief first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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Monthly Review, Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:21:15

On this day our choice is Dr Hesham Hassaballa’s co-authored Beliefnet Guide to Islam (https://t.co/AmQr6ba8Tc). The Guide is a challenge to our prejudices, an intriguing commentary, so if we’re going to declare our praises with certainty we’re keeping it on our lists. Here we discovered contributions that are surely woke in their insight. Before you leave our site, you’ve got to begin by reading how readers react. In the words of one reader, - the book will “In great details address issues that most westerners misunderstand regarding Islam. Great book, would highly recommend for many Muslims as well.” Similar works by Dr Hassaballa have been described as a “joy to read”. If you read this post, you might as well go one small step further and search for your own copy. If not, stay with us for more by subscribing for email updates.
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12 November 2020

The whitewashing of ME just continued. Long Covid patients could be next.

THIS JOURNALIST’S PARTNER LIVES WITH SEVERAL OF THE ILLNESSES MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE. ONE OF THE DOCTORS MENTIONED IS ALSO THEIR FAMILY GP. The … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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Petitions, Probes and Rupert Murdoch

Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media.  One, currently in London’s Belmarsh Prison, is facing the prospect of extradition to the United States for charges that could see him serve a 175 year sentence in a brutal, soul destroying super max.  The other, so the argument goes, […] The post Petitions, Probes and Rupert Murdoch first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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11 November 2020

American in Transition: Why I’m Not Worried About the Biden/Harris “Gun Control” Talk

A few weeks before the 2020 election, I visited a local gun shop. It was a madhouse. Weapons flew off the shelves as fast as customers could get their wallets out. Ammunition was in short supply too. Why? Well, on the front door, a flyer warned that, if elected, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would … Continue reading American in Transition: Why I’m Not Worried About the Biden/Harris “Gun Control” Talk → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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PM Pakistan should pay similar attention to Junagadh as Kashmir – Seminar on Junagadh Black Day

PM Pakistan should pay similar attention to Junagadh as Kashmir – Seminar Commemorating Junagadh Black Day By News Desk Seminar “Commemorating Junagadh Black Day” heldContinue reading - Voice of East
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Catalyst in detail: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:16:33

Let’s take another look at this selection from the 2013 futurist “Catalyst” thesis by Harry Bentham: “In anticipating risks in the future, it is easy to forget how past technological advancements have produced a vastly greater number of solutions and beneficial lessons than catastrophes. Therefore, if any arguments are burdened with prejudice, they must be the arguments from those ethicists and science-fiction artists who insist on depicting the immediate future as a dark morass to be entered slowly and cautiously. In fact, it is quite probably truer to human nature for civilization to take a leap of faith without care for the risks.” Stand up for an equal world! http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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8 November 2020

The Tories are manipulating Marcus Rashford in the extreme

Marcus Rashford appears to have won a victory over the Tory government. This is because it seems to have climbed down over the issue … Read more By Steve Topple - Steve Topple
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It is the Equalities Commission, not Labour, carrying out Political Interference

I recently published in Middle East Eye a long analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) In the piece, I reached two main conclusions. First, […] The post It is the Equalities Commission, not Labour, carrying out Political Interference first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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Catalyst in detail: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 07:21:22

Focus for a moment on the following: “Considering ease of travel and ease of communication, it is easy to say that borders are becoming porous and we are all already neighbors, as a result of what has been called time-space compression. This “global village” has led to our much greater global awareness and a huge level of cross-cultural understanding not previously known. This is true even if people have continued to omit their global awareness from much of their long-term political thinking, and still hold numerous mistaken or dated ideas about the world and how it should progress. It is reasonable to expect further social change with the inevitable universal spread of communication technology and the expansion of the internet. It is also possible to prepare for the proliferation and convergence of yet unrevealed liberating technologies in the coming decades, as already suggested in the previous chapter.With the internet and mobile phones already sufficiently incorporated in the human ‘political animal’, other gadgets are not far away from enhancing politics into something else altogether. Quite probably, such developments are going to lead to new kinds of regimes in the future, but it is hard to predict exactly what they might look like at present. They would come about as a result of the world-system ‘evolving’ and fluctuating, rather than our choices specifically, although our choices would impact this evolution as always. If the world was translated and communication became universal, this would represent an unprecedented awakening for humanity and a blow to all sectarianism and parochialism in the world. It would also allow for greater awareness of inequality in the world, and such a ‘transhuman’ development will make better political animals immune to schisms and differences.” The truths of modernity must be acted upon, techno-liberation is necessary. http://www.clubof.info/p/catalyst.html
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6 November 2020

America in Transition: Two Things Donald Trump Can Do to Burnish His Legacy

This column assumes that Joe Biden has won the 2020 US presidential election. While that SEEMS like a safe assumption — it would take successful legal challenges in several states to change the outcome — it IS an assumption. I could be writing for naught. But if Joe Biden is locked in as the next … Continue reading America in Transition: Two Things Donald Trump Can Do to Burnish His Legacy → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Condemnation of Politically Motivated Attacks on Civil Society in Jammu and Kashmir

Condemnation of Politically Motivated Attacks on Civil Society in Jammu and Kashmir By News Desk Washington, DC (November 5, 2020) – The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF) issued the following statementContinue reading - Voice of East
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5 November 2020

The Myth of the Private Sector, Part I: Why Big-Small and Vertical-Horizontal Trumps “Public-Private”

Today (Oct. 28) Rachel McKinney, a friend who works as professor of philosophy, complained on Twitter that she was trying to create a midterm exam and “blackboard is complete fucking garbage. No intuitive way to break up questions into sections, can’t give instructions for specific sections, can’t modulate to require answers for e.g. 10 of... - Kevin Carson
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Legendary War Correspondent Robert Fisk

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November 3: D-Day in the War to End the War on Drugs

The conventional wisdom of the last hundred years or so: The US government can and should decide what we may eat, drink, smoke, inject, or otherwise ingest. It can and should kidnap and cage us if we disobey, and if its restrictions kill us with adulterated or unduly strong black market products, it’s our own … Continue reading November 3: D-Day in the War to End the War on Drugs → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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US’ Alliance With India: A Bipartisan Issue Of Grand Strategic Importance

The US’ Alliance With India Is A Bipartisan Issue Of Grand Strategic Importance By Andrew Korybko The US’ alliance with India will remain a mainstay ofContinue reading - Voice of East
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3 November 2020

PBS and Other U.S. Media are spreading Disinformation about Nicaragua

In 36 years of living in Latin America I have learned that any time a country changes its conditions so that poverty decreases and the standard of living improves, the United States wages some kind of war on that country. It has waged unconventional warfare on Nicaragua since the Sandinistas returned to the presidency in […] The post PBS and Other U.S. Media are spreading Disinformation about Nicaragua first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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Russia-Pakistan Relations: Russia Must Resist Indian Pressure

Russia-Pakistan Relations: Russia Must Resist Indian Pressure Andrew Korybko shares his responses to several questions about the contemporary state and future prospects of Russia-Pakistan relations.Continue reading - Voice of East
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2 November 2020

States continue to act the same after elections

L'Ordre: Why do elected leaders so often betray their campaign promises? Every time, even the simplest of promises are not honored by leaders, resulting in a failure to serve the people, no matter how obvious the people's message was. An obvious example is that every US president promises to withdraw from the Middle East and subsequently fails to do so. The problem lies with processes devised to deliberately obfuscate the democratic will, in order for it to be consistently and deliberately disrespected, no matter how voters voted. Full article: https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/why-do-presidents-break-their-promises/  L'OrdreFriend of the Mont Orderhttp://dissidentvoice.org/author/lordre/
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Thank you so much, Dr. Stapler.

Thank you so much, Dr. Stapler. - Hesham Hassaballa
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1 November 2020

SpaceX’s Declaration of Space Independence is Just Common Sense

Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: On the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday even on planets orbiting distant stars. There isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — anything controversial about that prediction. We have the technology to get to some of those places … Continue reading SpaceX’s Declaration of Space Independence is Just Common Sense → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Previously all colliders discovered new physics as they moved to higher energies.

Previously all colliders discovered new physics as they moved to higher energies. But not this time. - Dirk Bruere
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Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID

Prior to the appearance of COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, neoliberal capitalism had turned to various mechanisms in the face of economic stagnation and massive inequalities: the raiding of public budgets, the expansion of credit to consumers and governments to sustain spending and consumption, financial speculation and militarism. Part and parcel of this has been a strategy […] The post Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Dissident Voice
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