STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE OFF SIDES PENALTY
OKAY, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. I AM WATCHING THE WORLD CUP TODAY AND I AM NOT DOING SCISSION. PLEASE CARRY ON WITHOUT ME...
View ArticleJULY 4TH MAY BE INDEPENDENCE DAY, BUT IT IS NOT THE CELEBRATION OF A REVOLUTION
SOME REAL FOUNDING FATHERSHARPERS FERRY, 1859In two days to the sound of explosions, to fireworks in the sky, to backyard barbecues and baseball games the USA will celebrate its victory in the War for...
View ArticleON CLASS
It's theoretical Monday and, guess what, I am the one theorizing for a change. I wrote this a couple of years ago following a brush up concerning the concept of class and class composition on...
View ArticleOIL SANDS AND ILLNESS STALK FIRST NATIONS, ALBERTA...AND BEYOND
Alberta Tar Oil SandsIt Don't Look Good To MeIn FactIt Looks So BadHere is some bad news that will not surprise you. A report entitled, "Environmental and Human Health Implications of the Athabasca...
View ArticleGAZA AND THE WORLD CUP...REALLY
Palestinians watch a World Cup football game on a wide screen on the beach of Gaza City.Somehow I doubt this can happen todaywithout the people having bombs dropped on their heads.Getting ready to...
View ArticleA LITTLE GIRL LIVES IN GAZA
SHE LIVES IN GAZASHE IS NOT A THREAT TO ANYONESHE HAS DONE NOTHING TO ANYONESHE CANNOT HIDE FROM THE BOMBSDOES ANYONE CAREWHETHER SHE LIVES OR DIESWe watch the bombs falling on Gaza. We are told over...
View ArticleGAZA, SDEROT, ROCKETS AND THE RACIST VALUATION OF LIVES/IT'S WHAT I'M TALKING...
A bomb shelter in Sderot (Photo by ‘Jewbask’)As predicted by me, I took all kinds of unholy crap for daring to even speak my mind about the latest round of total insanity going on in Israel and Gaza....
View ArticleJEWISH IDENTITY TODAY OR, MAN, WHAT A MESS...
UPDATE: SINCE I PUBLISHED THE ARTICLE BY GILAD ATZMON HERE (SEE BELOW) I WAS PROVIDED INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR WHICH I FIND MORE THAN DISTURBING. WHILE I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE PIECE ITSELF...
View ArticleA LITTLE NEWS ABOUT THE WESTERN SAHARA
Not much time today. Been involved in an argument, to put it nicely, about, you guessed, Israel, Palestine, Gaza. Won't bore you with that right now.However, in the midst of the "discussion" I...
View ArticleHOMOPHOBIC HATE MONGERS OF THE CHRISTIAN VARIETY HEAD TO THE UKRAINE
Only my good friend Bill Berkowitz would be able to come up with a piece that somehow connects the Ukraine, Uganda, homophobia, Christian fundamentalism and more. Only Bill.Well, I am glad he did.This...
View ArticleHERE IS AN IDEA, LET'S SEE IF WE CAN'T POISON THE DRINKING WATER OF TENS OF...
Ontario Power Generation, one of North America's largest producers of electricity has been at work for fifteen years to obtain approval to build an underground site near the Great Lakes to store its...
View ArticleFREE MARISSA NOW AND STANDING OUR GROUND AGAINST REPRODUCTIVE OPPRESSION,...
It is Prison Friday and...As Project NIA writes:In the words of writer Mychal Denzel Smith, “Marissa Alexander was just trying to save her life” when she was assaulted and threatened (again) by her...
View ArticleISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM JUST AIN'T MY GIG
Okay, I don't know exactly what I am doing here for Theoretical Monday at Scission. I have decided that it is time for some stuff that has to do with religious fundamentalism of the Islamic variety....
View ArticlePREGNANT, TESTED POSITIVE: BOOK EM DANNO
ANOTHER HAPPY LEGISLATOR IN TENNESSEE UPON PASSAGE OF A NEW BILL TO SEND "THE WORST OF THE WORST' MOMS TO JAILEarlier this month Tennessee went ahead and criminalized pregnancy, well, certain pregnant...
View ArticleNAVY NURSE TAKES A STAND AT GUANTANAMO
"Refusing to force-feed us was a historical act and a strong statement. We were all amazed."I would like to take a moment to thank an unknmown US Navy nurse for risking much and taking a stand for...
View ArticleALEC, MONSANTO, CARGILL TRYING TO PULL A FAST ONE IN MISSOURI WITH SO CALLED...
I was not going to do Scission today, but then a friend just told me about an amendment on the ballot here in Missouri. It is referred to as the "right to farm" amendment. It has about as much to do...
View ArticleTHERE ARE WAR CRIMES, THERE ARE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...AND THEN THERE ARE...
It is Prison Friday...and well...since Gaza is basically just one large open air prison, I guess I can say this sort of belongs here. By posting this article I am not making some statement about...
View ArticleA VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS CRIES OUT, "PUT AN END TO THE WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL"...
Uri Avery is a modern Hebrew prophet and, unfortunately, too oftena lone voice in the wilderness...IN THIS war, both sides have the same aim: to put an end to the situation that existed before it...
View ArticleTHE CONFEDERATION PATH FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Okay, I am going way long here. I have decided to print two pieces, the first of which is very long and the second just long. The first is an article by Oren Yiftachel taken from the Middle East...
View ArticleCUBA STOMPS USA OR CUBA SI YANQUI NO
It's true. Even yours truly gets tired once in a while of writing about all the crap in the world. Even I get tired of being the heavy every now and then. Somedays, when that happens I just bail...
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