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mobiustrip44 writes:

"Should Anarchists Support Suicide Bombers?"

"I am an exceptionally active Jewish anarchist who once resided in Israel and currently has many relatives living there. Lately I've been getting really fed up with some of my anarchist friends when we're discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because often, like Rachel Corrie, you can hear the restrained hero-worship of Palestinian suicide bombers beneath the subtext of their arguments. They wear kaffiyehs in solidarity, and scrawl "Israel out of Palestine" on bathroom walls, purportedly identifying with the Palestinian independence struggle, like this clown at the WTO demo in Cancun doing his best impression of a rock-tossing Palestinian teenager.

hydrarchist writes: This from the lovely Counterpunch.

"On
the Bicentennial of the Execution of Robert Emmet"


By Peter Linebaugh

Robert Emmet was executed two hundred years ago
this day. "Behold, the head of a traitor!" the hangman
held up his severed head dripping with blood onto the cobblestones
of Thomas Street for the dogs to lap up. On the anniversary of
this ignominy let's pause to consider the project for which he
died.

His is an example of revolutionary sacrifice
to be compared to the self-stabbing of Kwong Hae Lee last week
on top of the fence separating the people from the U.S. and European
planners of capitalism at the Cancun meeting of the WTO.

"I have but one request to ask at
my departure from this world; it is--THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE.
Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives
dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse
them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name
remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice
to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations
of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written."

Depth Squad Distro writes:

AFTER 9/11: CONFORMISM, INSUBORDINATION, AND THE GOOD LIFE. AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK HOGAN

by Don LaCoss

DL: Your book, The Culture of Conformism: Understanding Social Consent (Duke UP), came out in May 2001. Since its publication, there have been a number of crucial incidents, both here in the US and around the world, which directly relate to some of the problems of “the new conformism” that your book explores. Do recent events change your thinking on “the new conformism,” or do you believe instead that they provide stronger support for your book’s arguments?

PH: In part, the book presents a general account of why people—all of us—consent to hegemonic or dominant practices, even when those practices clearly harm us or run against our interests. It develops that general account in terms of recent historical and cultural particulars. The particulars, obviously, vary. The basic principles, however, should be broadly valid. In other words, the scope of the book is not confined to the new conformism. Rather, the new conformism is a particularization of more widely applicable principles—a particularization that has pushed very strongly against the open rebelliousness that had developed in the 1960’s.

"Deprogramming 101"

Victor Thorn & Lisa Guliani

"It's been said that if you want to fool the world, tell it the truth. So many people walk through life unaware that they are living under dangerous misperceptions and serious falsehoods. We see this practice in our city every single day. It was particularly evident at a recent anti-war protest held at Penn State University. The demonstration boasted a very large number of attendees, most of who fed into the present day mythology that keeps them oblivious to how the world operates and who is really calling the shots -- both in America and around the world."


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"Memory/System/Prediction"

Kurt Eckhart

"The anarchistic aim of the production of a post-scarcity society in toto hinges on the development and deployment of such technologies of non-scarcity. Emergent technologies such as 'fabbing' and nanotechnology will in essence make it possible to produce the real -- based on the internet's real-time and predictive data -- allowing a perfect fit of production and consumption. The abolishment of scarcity once and for all becomes possible. The goal of the anarchist syndicates must be to accelerate the creation and adoption of such technologies, turning each home from a site of consumption into a site of simulation-aided production. Each home must become not only a miniaturized ecology (though the use of infrastructural technologies) but also a miniaturized factory. Though this the autoproduction of the real becomes possible through the digital."


http://newworlddisorder.ca

"SARS and the New World Order"

Barry Chamish

"After spending three days in Hong Kong in March, I concluded that SARS was biological warfare. The giveaway for me was the way it was transmitted. Over 90% of the cases were in one apartment and one medical complex. That more than suggested to me that the bug was put in the air-conditioning systems of the buildings, spreading through the vents. And that was the means of transmission of a similar experiment in spreading killer viruses over two decades ago, when Legionnaire's Disease was spread through the air-conditioning ducts of a Philadelphia hotel."


http://newworlddisorder.ca

"Conquest by Convergence: The Case Against Elite Convergence"

Paul David Collins


"Among one of the most absurd and irrational myths circulated by the orthodoxy of political science is the concept of elite convergence. According to this hopelessly flawed view, the problems of injustice and inequity that destabilize societal order are remedied when opposing factions of the ruling class arrive at an agreement. In truth, elite convergence is the covert galvanization of democracy's enemies. Whether they are in agreement or in discord, a pack of wolves will always devour their quarry. Likewise, the assumption that individual liberties are now safe because its foes no longer quarrel amongst themselves is a self-immolating delusion."


Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca

"Thou Sayest: Is Brainwashing Possible?"

by William H. Kennedy


"On the way to the police station Elizabeth did something quite unexpected. She began to defend her abductors and claiming that she did not want them to get into trouble or go to jail. Elizabeth was abducted by an ex-communicated Mormon named Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee who lived a cult-like existence. Mitchell sees himself as a Prophetic and at times Messianic figure. In his deranged world he came to the conclusion that Elizabeth Smart was his God ordained second wife after he completed some minor repair work at the Smart home. After he captured Elizabeth at knife point by cutting a window screen and entering her bedroom he took her on a seven month Odyssey through a strange world of homelessness, preaching and begging, the details of which are only slowly emerging in the popular media."

Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca

"The Montauk PsyOp"

Alexandra Bruce

"Here is where we get to the potential uses of this meme in mass consciousness: it is not only a latent means of tracking the general population's ability to grasp such concepts. It is a way to get the readers' consciousnesses to resonate with potential parallel realities -- where events like those described in the Montauk Project books are actually taking place -- creating a peer-to-peer bridge between the readers in this universe and parallel versions of themselves existing in reality fields such as those described. It could be a form of mass consciousness entrainment, on a multiversal scale, targeted to the group of individuals who resonate with this information."


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"Nothing Natural///Black Planet"

Adrian Gargett

"War is not conceptualised here in Clausewitz's sense -- an implement of policy. War in its extremist sense is not an implement of any kind, and not in the slightest a political one. The comparison of war to politics is not -- in actuality -- one of methodological supplementary, but more exactly, one of the uncontested to the area of its possible circumscription. Only when it has been ordered/disciplined, and repressed in its tropism to total subjugation, can the miserable dog we understand as 'war' be suppressed to the influence of policy; as the negative force of the state. War breaks out of the Clausewitzean definition to embrace its wilder qualities; the cosmological nobility illustrated by Herakleitus, and the lines of hydraulic complexity traced by Sun Tzu. There is equally an inexorable signification in which war is beautiful -- particularly when contrasted to the sickening inanity of work -- given that even its desolate appearances overrun into something severe, flowing, and wild. War is an excessiveness of chances, which are fairly uniform with its shocking cruelty as a despised evil spirit trailing a grisly bloodbath, the gutter breeding-ground of vermin and contagion. Whatever its horrific fascination, there is nothing more overwhelmingly demeaning than war. It alone is truly base."


Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca

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