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  • Agamben’s tribute to Free the Tarnac 5
    24 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Giorgio Agamben
    TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY?
    On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the cultural life of the village). Four days later, these nine people were sent before an anti-terrorist judge and “accused of criminal conspiracy with (…)

  • Why a World State is inevitable: Anarchy and the Logic of Recognition
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why a World State is inevitable: Anarchy and the Logic of Recognition
    By Alexander Wendt
    ABSTRACT
    In the past 3000 years there has been an exponential reduction in the number of independent polities in the world system. this paper argues that this process will continue until there is only one state left, that a world state is inevitable. The argument is explicitly teleological, and based on a neo-Hegelian interpretation of the logic of anarchy. A scientific teleology can be extracted (…)

  • All the people in the streets the 15th : "The crisis, let them pay it themselves"
    6 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ALL THE PEOPLES TO THE STREETS ON THE FIFTEENTH IN THE WHOLE WORLD!! THE CRISIS LET THEM PAY IT THEMSELVE
    By Redascción de: Prensa Popular Comunistas Miranda
    An initiative as risen up in Spain: " The Crisis they must pay it themselves",. We are alluding to this parallel movement to of a governmental meeting of the most important countries which was carried out, intenting to take measures toward a salvation from the crisis for the big monopolies owners of the world.
    Meanwhile, with (…)

  • Democracy and militarism (Howard Zinn Interview, Oct 2008)
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Howard Zinn: The financial and war crisis have created an opportunity for real change
    Source : southendpress.org
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24129011.html

  • Noam Chomsky: Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
    12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky
    by Noam Chomsky
    THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems (…)

  • Venezuela: National Security = Personal Insecurity
    10 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.
    Civil insecurity is a problem that has certainly been inherited by the so-called Bolivarian government, the product of, among other things, an immense social debt with large sectors of the population, getting worse to the point of being considered the mayor problem (…)

  • Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty!
    7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wake Up America!
    Give Me Liberty. A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

  • Call to an International Meeting of Solidarity with Bolivia in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, from 23 to 25 October
    4 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Those who Stand with Bolivia, Stand for all People, all the Time
    1. The dignified inhabitants of this Abya Yala1 (American) continent have been struggling for centuries to re-establish SUMAK KAWSAY2 (Living Fully) that was seized from us by the invaders and subsequent colonizers. Throughout the ages they have murdered worthy leaders, usurped the wealth of the people and at the height of their greed, violated all human rights and those of Pachamama3 [Mother Earth], aided and abetted by (…)

  • Video: Veterans for Peace Occupy Archives’ Building in Washington, D.C.
    23 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: Veterans for Peace Occupy Archives’ Building in Washington, D.C.
    On Sept. 23, 2008, five military veterans occupied a 35-foot-high ledge in front of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. At the site, they unfolded a 22X8 foot banner. It read: “Defend our Constitution: Arrest Bush and Cheney: War Criminals.” The demonstration was sponsored by the Veterans for Peace, a national organization. One of its members, Tarak Kauff, discussed the reasons for the protest action (…)

  • Whose Streets?
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Our Streets!
    “Anarchist Tackles Cop, Frees Demonstrator at RNC”
    Could this be the beginning of a revolution?
    “Trip! - Whose Streets?”
    Or is this a continuation of a long hard struggle…
    “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
    to stop Fascism!
    “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”
    Based on the following Youtube comment for the first video, it appears that many are serious about what is happening:
    * All those fucking hippies standing around chanting, and all it took was ‘one’ brave anarchist to (…)