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• Joseph Massad’s “The last of the Semites”

  
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  Without any public explanation, Al Jazeera has censored Joseph Massad’s excellent article focussing on the relationship between zionism, antisemitism and white supremacism. As Ali Abunimah says in his article critiquing Al Jazeera’s disgraceful withdrawal of the article: “Since its publication, the article ...
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• Ten tips on how to be a colonial

  
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  1. Constantly compare your country, its people, its practices, its food, drink, scenery and products to the overseas version and always find the local version wanting. 2. Ignore the cynicism and spiritual poverty of nations who have seen better days. 3. Have no faith in home-grown solutions. Always look for ...
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• Bill Maher Gets Owned by Glenn Greenwald

  
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  This nine minute exchange between Bill Maher and his guests: Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian, Joy Reid of the Miami Herald and Charles Cooke of the National Review Online is very telling. There’s a lot to say about how ideology and partisanship can prevent one from a fair analysis of events and ...
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• Alvaro Vargas Llosa At Real Clear Politics: “Pakistan’s Crooked Roots”

  
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  Full post here . Our author suggests: “ Pakistan’s original sin — the reason for its instability, its dysfunctional politics, and the penetration of its state and society by religious fanaticism — was the brutal influence of military rule in that republic’s short life. And it still is .” ...
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• Cavanaughs "Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa"

  
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  Edward Cavanagh , a scholar-in-residence at the University of Ottawa, has published Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River with Palgrave Macmillan.  The press explains: Layers of dispossession and disruption are definitive of South African ...
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• Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Strong Families’ Mama’s Day Campaign 2013

  
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  By Andrea Plaid With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend , we at the R celebrate the holiday with the best commingling of activism and e-cards from the one and only Strong Families crew! Check out their offerings : Artist: Chucha Marquez.   Artist: Robert Trujillo.   Artist: Amaryllis ...
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• Scottish Independence: A Step on the Road to Socialism

  
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  First published in “ Scotland’s Road to Socialism – Time to Choose”, edited by Gregor Gall and published by SLR Press, this article from the collection of 22 perspectives of a diverse range of people on the left towards the future of Scotland in the run up to the Independence … The post Scottish ...
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• Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870

  
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  The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with eighteenth and nineteenth century British cultural politics. By the middle of the nineteenth century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour, connecting it to notions of propriety and ‘truth’, ...
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• Pankaj Mishra: Sun At Last Setting on Britains Imperial Myth

  
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  Pankaj Mishra is an Indian author and writer of literary and political essays. His books include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond. His new work, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, is published in 2012. Scuttling away from India in ...
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• Mau Mau victims to be compensated

  
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  The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency in what would be the first compensation settlement resulting from official crimes committed under imperial rule. In a development that could pave the way for many ...
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• Syria Burning

  
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  Well, Syria is still in the news. Well, the colonial propaganda that passes for news in the west. Let’s see, Syria is another of the countries that was made up after World War One by the British and French as they carved up the Ottoman Empire for their own colonial exploitative purposes. Since Syria had no resources ...
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• American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty

  
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  American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty Book title: American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty Author: George E. Tinker Customer Review: George Tinker has once again thoroughly researched and written on the topic of European colonialism as pertaining to the American Indian. For ...
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• US, NATO Using Proxy Terrorism to Achieve Neo-Colonialistic Goals by Finian Cunningham

  
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  by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV May 2, 2013 A failed coup in the North African country of Chad this week is just another repercussion from the wave of Western state-sponsored violence and destabilization, stretching from Central Asia, through the Middle East and across ...
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• Communism Is Conducive To Cannibalism. What’s New?

  
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  Is communism conducive to cannibalism? Of course. Immoral systems give rise to more of the same. Food shortages and starvation are byproducts of communism. The rest follows as sure as night follows day. Taboos fall by the way when one is starving. The Plymouth pilgrims, circa 1623, abandoned private property for ...
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• Survival of the Westest: Climate Change and the Global South

  
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  While the BBC might think that a factual statement about rising temperatures should be redacted from a programme because it’s ‘controversial,’ most of us here in the real world are aware of the fact that the climate is changing, and it’s taking place at a faster rate than would occur naturally. This would seem ...
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• Link: In South Hebron, ‘new rules’ are rather like the ‘old rules’

  
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  As we approach the 65th anniversary of the Nakba , security forces are targeting Israeli activists and Palestinian shephards in new ways in the South Hebron hills. It’s as if they’d decided to circumvent the whole irksome apparatus of the courts and to resort instead to brute force. It’s much simpler, and maybe ...
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• Roots of the economic crisis

  
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  The economic crisis that has and continues to wreak havoc the world over is a consequence of a mode of production – capitalism – which is predicated on the production of commodities for exchange at a price higher than the cost of producing them with the objective of capital accumulation. The production process ...
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• Israeli Fascist Occupation Forces Bullying Palestinian Children

  
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  Israeli occupation troops bully a 12 year old Palestinian child, then manhandle and arrest an international human rights worker – this is apartheid, fascist, stomach-turning zionism in action. This despicable abuse continues while the US, UK, EU, Australian and other western governments continue to badmouth ...
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• CFP: 1619: Making of America conference

  
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  Via H-Law, we have the following Call for Papers : The Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center of Norfolk State University (NSU), in partnership with the Hampton History Museum is hosting a two-day conference, 1619: Making of America conference that will be held in Hampton and Norfolk, VA on September 26-27, 2013. This ...
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• Tamerlan Tsarnaevs Appointment With Destiny

  
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  Tamerlan. Naming a child Tamerlan is like naming a child Adolf Hitler. What? Tamerlan * was a kick-ass warlord in his day. 17-million people lost their lives (about 5% of the earths peoples in the late 1300s) at Tamerlans hands. He was quite the conqueror, and had no qualms about killing the entire population ...
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