July 2012
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June 2012
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hearing Antonis Davanellos of SYRIZA speak frankly about the situation re: Greece. Shit just got real, and the geopolitical currents are hair-raisingly palpable.
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waddlewaddlewaddle-deactivated2 asked: Hey! So, I noticed that you said in response to that Anonymous video that compassion is part of the "affective motor for a true global revolution." I was wondering if you had heard of Nussbaum's account of "anti-compassion." I have to look back and see exactly what the distinction was, but I was wondering if you had read about that and what you thought about it. I think...
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They don’t accuse us they FRAME us, they don’t arrest us they ABDUCT us, they...
– (via occupyla)
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Public Option Advocates To Push Medicare For All...
americawakiewakie:
tpmmedia:
The progressive activists who put the public option at the heart of the health care reform debate in 2009 and 2010 will return in 2012 to press Democrats to back a single-payer system if the Supreme Court throws out the Affordable Care Act on Thursday.
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Real socialism—it is inevitable.
+1 I have a lot of reasons for thinking the court should strike...
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Let's look at a few headlines, shall we? And you...
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Reuters: Egypt’s army, Islamists discuss president’s powers
Reuters: Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule
Reuters: Egypt stirs Islamist joy, Gulf, Israeli doubts
AP: For Gaza, Egypt’s Islamist Victory No Quick Fix
National Post: Israeli tensions rise as Egyptian Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi questions peace pact
RT: ‘Islamic Awakening’: Morsi’s Egypt turns to...
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It’s the glory of the age of the consumer
Doomsday
already occurred...
– Birgitta Jónsdóttir Generations
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Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad,...
– President Jimmy Carter, quoted (here) by Glenn Greenwald in his article “Collapsing U.S. credibility”
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“killed that day were 22 children”, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
Among those killed that day were 22 children. The youngest, Khadje Ali Mokbel Louqye, was just one year old. A dozen women also died, five of them reportedly pregnant. Yet these numbers mask the many individual families annihilated in the attack. Mohammed Nasser Awad Jaljala, 60, his 30-year-old wife Nousa,...
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(Exit-Poll Estimates) SYRIZA: 27.5% New Democracy:... →
“…New Democracy was leading with an estimated 28.6% to 30% of the vote, or 127 seats in the 300-seat parliament. The radical left Syriza party was second with an 27.5% to 28.4% of the vote or 72 seats. Earlier exit poll result had shown the two parties in a statistical dead heat…Any new government will face Olympian hurdles as soon as it takes office, with a central...
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Breaking: French Socialists win an absolute...
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Alexis Tsipras from Syriza has reportedly called... →