March 2011
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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular...”
– Karl Marx (via rethinksocialism)
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“2155: UK Foreign Office statement on Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa: “We...”
– OMG Moussa Koussa under his own free will!! after sharing #Gaddafi crimes in #Libya (via drsonnet)
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“We see art not as a mirror to hold up to reality but as a hammer with which to...”
– Brecht (via fuckyeahanarchism)
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“Police represent the state; the state has a monopoly of the legitimate use of...”
– David Graeber, On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets (2009: p. 28)
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not...”
– Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (via leftliberty)
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“If you are going to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they will kill...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via cvalda)
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UN chief: Israel's occupation is 'morally,... →
zeitvox:
Ban Ki-moon calls on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to take advantage of this ‘crucial time’ to move peace talks forward and realize the two-state solution.
“…the occupation that started in 1967 is morally and politically unsustainable, and must end. The Palestinians have a legitimate right to the establishment of an independent and viable State of their own.”
The secretary...
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via rykemasters)
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Friedrich Hayek, Zombie →
Truly, nothing ever changes. The insistence that big deficits somehow caused the crisis even thought they actually didn’t appear until after the crisis was well underway — and were clearly caused by the crisis, not the other way around — prefigures the debate in Europe, in which everyone declares that fiscal irresponsibility is the core issue even though both Ireland and Spain had low debt and...
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“We are astonished that over a few weeks about 1,000 Libyans have been killed and...”
– Ibrahim el-Helu, a commander from the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Darfur rebel group. (via thenonviolentcommunist)
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A 15 year old girl holds her 1 year old son,...
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More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were... →
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“More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentation.
Alexander, currently a law professor at Ohio State, had...
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i need someone to kill me. physically.
just thinking of what i lost. i know how precious they were and still are, but there’s no way i can get them back. yes, i’ve been trying to forget, but sometimes those things come rolling up in my mind.
just saying.
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“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of...”
– Vladimir Lenin. (via imperfectrevolution)
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“As freedom grows, the need to coerce and control opinion also grows if you want...”
– Noam Chomsky on the concept of “anti-American” (via insaniyat)
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MuslimahMonet's Mundo: A Dark Moment for 'Liberal'... →
subhanallahsenegal:
Guest contribution by Chase Mechanick
watch?v=tpnrNzWJbCo
Imagine, for a brief moment, that Israel treated the settlements in and around Hebron the same way it treats the Gaza Strip. After all, Kiryat Arba, like Gaza, has its share of dangerous, gun-toting extremists mingling amidst the…
