12 March 2011
By Jim Watkins “Violence breeds violence…Pure goals can never justify impure or violent action…If we take care of the means we are bound to reach the end sooner or later” –Mahatma Gandhi Within the next few weeks, students will be bombarded with opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Apartheid Week will motivate many groups on [...]
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12 March 2011
By David Alexander In modern times, our mental image of revolution is either the genteel aristocrats sitting down with tea and discussing the moral rights of man, or the Marxist revolutionary, teaming up with no more powerful a force than the inevitable social trend itself, and carving a utopia out of the decaying corpse of [...]
Posted in Corporatism, Societal Issues0 Comments
11 March 2011
By Ellie Fox, American Correspondent I am a public employee. I am not the problem. Wall Street made billions, crashed the economy, ruined lives and got bailed out. Average Americans followed the rules and got thrown to the wolves. Teachers, librarians, police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and others are NOT the enemy. We live here, pay [...]
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11 March 2011
By Jonathan Perron-Clow While Canadian politicians have been using inflammatory electoral rhetoric quite heavily since the fall, the odds of a spring election are actually quite low. Neither of the two principal sides is likely to gain substantially from an election, and the two other parties do not have the power, by themselves or together, [...]
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11 March 2011
The authoritarian landscape of the Arab world is finally waning and we are witness to a long-anticipated fundamental change. But these revolutions are not necessarily rosy for all. Many in the West remain sceptical about the nature of this revolutionary tide. Over the last few weeks, we have been exposed to various opinions about the [...]
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13 February 2011
Yeah, yeah, I know. Not news. But go ahead and read this reporter’s account of it for a laugh. When I see a news article start with: Meal Ticket usually doesn’t tackle these types of stories, but this particular one is so infuriating and indicative of our asshole- and moron-filled litigious circle jerk of a [...]
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13 February 2011
Palantir Tech has severed their ties with HBGary Federal over this. Earlier this morning, The Tech Herald reported that Palantir Technologies severed all ties with HBGary Federal and issued an apology to reporter Glenn Greenwald. Now, Berico Technologies, the second data intelligence firm who was linked to a systematic plan of attack against WikiLeaks, has [...]
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13 February 2011
Anonymous recently hacked HB Gary Federal, a private security firm hired to investigate Anonymous. What they discovered while they were there is reason for anger. Apparently the Chamber of Commerce is sinking quite a lot of money into HB Gary to undermine and attack unions, progressives, and their political opponents. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt [...]
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08 February 2011
Masculinity is a fairly new field of study for scholars of feminism and women’s studies disciplines. While studying the construction, enforcement, and perpetuation of the dominant idea of masculinity is becoming widespread, it must be noted that other possible ideas of masculinity which are subordinated still have much to be analyzed. Women’s studies seek to [...]
Posted in Gender Politics, Political Issues0 Comments
07 February 2011
Part 1 of this series is available here: http://www.winstonite.com/?p=775 In the last article, I talked about an Islamist philosophical tradition that sets itself against modernity. The writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian author and poet who believed that modernization would eventually wipe Islam out, has influenced nostalgic Islamist movements that seek to return the Islamic [...]
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