Connecting People and Ideas

Bradley Manning on Trial

2011-12-19T11:29:00.000-08:00

Here is the conversations that Manning had with Lamo, which is being used against him in by the Government.

(02:35:46 PM) bradass87: was watching 15 detainees taken by the Iraqi Federal Police… for printing “anti-Iraqi literature”… the iraqi federal police wouldn’t cooperate with US forces, so i was instructed to investigate the matter, find out who the “bad guys” were, and how significant this was for the FPs… it turned out, they had printed a scholarly critique against PM Maliki… i had an interpreter read it for me… and when i found out that it was a benign political critique titled “Where did the money go?” and following the corruption trail within the PM’s cabinet… i immediately took that information and *ran* to the officer to explain what was going on… he didn’t want to hear any of it… he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees…

Ode to Christopher Hitchens

2011-12-12T18:24:00.000-08:00

Many friends of Christophers gather to pay tribute to a quintessential English/American writer. Long live the Hitch.

Occupy San Diego at San Diego City Council

2011-10-26T13:45:00.000-07:00

The people will be heard, despite the ineffective institutions, and will restore balance to collective decision making in our communities.

Greatest Video of All Time?

2011-10-18T23:20:00.000-07:00

Powerful questions from a real man to a gang of thugs at Occupy Wall Street. "and I gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today..."

National Initiative for Democracy

2011-08-27T18:36:00.000-07:00

The National Initiative does not change or eliminate Congress, the President, or the judicial system. Laws created by initiative must still stand up in the courts just like laws created by Congress. The National Initiative adds an additional check –– the People –– to our system of checks and balances, while setting up a working partnership between the People and their elected representatives

Direct Democracy - Voting in the workplace and for public policy

2011-08-27T17:59:00.001-07:00

A new path forward, away from hierarchy, discrimination and representation.

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

2011-08-08T11:30:00.001-07:00

Merging Karl Marx and Milton Friedman to create individual and cultural harmony.

What is an anarcho syndicalist?

2011-06-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

Monty Python to the rescue again...

Life is about Money

2011-06-27T02:25:00.000-07:00

We cant have the wretched controlling policy, you may as well throw muskets to the rabble...

Beyond the Orwell Cliche

2011-06-25T01:02:00.000-07:00

Christopher Hitchens and George Packer discuss Orwell in "Facing Unpleasant Facts" and "All Art Is Propaganda."

Steven Pinker critiques Rousseau, Locke and Descartes

2011-06-25T00:31:00.000-07:00

To the End of Time

2011-06-24T19:11:00.000-07:00

Why are the governments of the
United States and Israel so intimately connected? This is at least part of the answer.

The Port Huron Statement

2011-06-24T19:09:00.000-07:00

Alternatives to Helplessness

"The goals we have set are not realizable next month, or even next election -- but that fact justifies neither giving up altogether nor a determination to work only on immediate, direct, tangible problems. Both responses are a sign of helplessness, fearfulness of visions, refusal to hope, and tend to bring on the very conditions to be avoided. Fearing vision, we justify rhetoric or myopia. Fearing hope, we reinforce despair.

The first effort, then, should be to state a vision: what is the perimeter of human possibility in this epoch? This we have tried to do. The second effort, if we are to be politically responsible, is to evaluate the prospects for obtaining at least a substantial part of that vision in our epoch: what are the social forces that exist, or that must exist, if we are to be at all successful? And what role have we ourselves to play as a social force?"

What does the Matrix look like in Real Life?

2011-06-24T18:35:00.000-07:00

Cyberwar and Social Justice

A bit of Levity

2011-06-24T02:16:00.000-07:00


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http://www.bustedtees.com/reunitepangea

David Harvey - Emancipatory Politics

2011-06-24T01:43:00.000-07:00

A lecture for a conference on “New Emancipation Struggle”

Current Podcasts

2011-06-23T15:58:00.000-07:00

The Survivors

Film: The Tree of Life

2011-06-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

Latest Terrence Malick Film

An Examination of the Effects of Power and Hierarchy

2011-06-16T15:27:00.000-07:00

One of the best documentaries ever made.

Obedience to Authority Experiments

2011-06-08T00:52:00.001-07:00

Repeat of the Milgram Experiment

Random Hacks of Kindness

2011-06-06T11:04:00.000-07:00

RHoK works by bringing together experts in development and volunteers with a broad set of skills in software development and design. The goal is to produce practical open source solutions to development problems.

Powerful message from former (C.I.A. Agent) to all Americans!

2011-06-02T00:29:00.001-07:00

Violently Arrested for Dancing

2011-06-01T10:17:00.000-07:00

Karl Marx, part 8: Modernity and the privatisation of hope

2011-05-25T00:37:00.001-07:00

In the 20th century the failure of the German revolution in 1918/19 and the degeneration of the Russian revolution into dictatorship as well as the rising power of the US as a consumerist democracy led to a serious rethink on the part of most Marxist thinkers about questions of agency, class and economics and the dogmatic certainties of the Second and Third (ie Social Democratic and Stalinist) Internationals. It is hard to pinpoint exactly when this trend started and it certainly had many disparate branches but essentially it boils down to a turn to a sort of humanist, philosophical and cultural Marxism that attempted, in Ernst Bloch's terms, to re-inject the "warm stream" of the ethics of human liberation back into the "cold stream" of what for many had become the "negative dialectic" of positivistic and scientistic systems of social control in west and east. In the 20th century the turn to an exploration of ideology and unconscious desire replaced that of an active revolutionary communism and an adherence to revolutionary communism in the west itself became in many ways no more than an expression of an internal unconscious and romantic desire for personal liberation...

Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

2011-05-23T11:52:00.001-07:00