I ALMOST NEVER TALK ABOUT THE SIXTIES, BUT....
Another commonly-held belief which Morgan’s book reveals to be a total myth is the story that veterans returning home from Vietnam were “spit on” by anti-war protesters. Instead, “[Jerry] Lembcke’s...
View ArticleEBOLA: NO FEAR MONGERING, NO SUGAR COATING, JUST THE TRUTH
EBOLA COMES TO EUROPE. AMBULANCE TRANSPORTING SPANISH NURSE WHO CONTRACTED EBOLA CARING FOR PATIENT WHO DIED OF EBOLA IN MADRID. The nurse began having a fever on Sept. 30, but health workers never...
View ArticleFREE MARIO LUNA, SOLIDARITY WITH THE YAQUI PEOPLE
FREE MARIO LUNAMario Luna, Secretary of the Yaqui nation’s traditional authorities in the town of Vicam in the state of Sonora, Mexico was arrested on September 11th because of his actions taken in...
View ArticleTHE CONTROL OF WORK TIME: CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE MULTITUDE (YOU AND ME)
Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel have written a book which has just been released which will probably be worth the read. In the book, Unequal Time, the two: .. .explore the ways in which social...
View ArticleAMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES FEATURING THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Scission will be going into a brief hibernation during the Major League Baseball American League Championship Series which will be featuring my Kansas City Royals playing the Baltimore Orioles. We...
View ArticleEBOLA: THE GLOBAL CALL HAS GONE OUT...AND YOU ARE FAILING
A rare Sunday post and with no introduction beyond the word, "AMEN."The following is from VDU'S Blog (one of the many infectious disease blogs and sites which I follow regularly).Ebola double...
View ArticleEBOLA: ONE MORE STOP IN THE HISTORY OF RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND DISEASE
Cartoon from The Wasp of May 26, 1882, promoting the then-common racist myth that diseases were rampant in Chinatown.I am not back. No time, but I had to post this.Racism and infectious...
View Article15M.cc: AUTONOMIA AND THE MULTITUDE (STARTS AS THREE?)
What can I do? What is autonomous action? How can we get anywhere without a vanguard party to lead us?The post below gives an example of one the myriad answers to all of those questions. The...
View ArticleEBOLA: IT'S A SHAME
It's a shame that I was writing about the dangerous situation with Ebola in Africa years before the national media noticed it. It's a shame that I have been shouting about the current epidemic in West...
View ArticleHAITI: THE LAND THAT THE UNITED NATIONS FORGOT, BUT CHOLERA DID NOT
And what about Haiti?If the United Nations brings a deadly disease to a country should it be held accountable? Should someone?This Thursday a court proceeding will get underway with that question at...
View ArticleDO YOU EVER WONDER WHY GOD IS SO PIECEMEAL WITH THOSE WHOLE WRATH THING...
if it isn't one thing,it's something elseI don't know about you, but I have to get myself in shape for the opening night of the World Series. May I just say a "LET'S GO ROYALS."Meanwhile, god is...
View ArticleIT'S TIME TO PUNT ON THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
My blogging these days is limited by the Royal's playoff run and World Series entrance. With the Series tied one to one and moving back to SF, I decided why not a sports article. When looking for a...
View ArticleLET'S NOT FORGET ANDY LOPEZ
ANDY LOPEZThis past week marked the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy southwest of Santa Rosa.Deputy Erick Gelhaus shot Andy seven...
View ArticleSTOP CRUEL AND ABUSIVE WEIGHT PULLING COMPETITION "FOR" DOGS
SOME JACKASSES SAY THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO BOND WITH YOUR DOGI know some of you are going to say with everything going on in the world, why does this guy choose to write about dogs. Someone will comment...
View ArticleTHANK YOU, KANSAS CITY ROYALS...SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
NINETY FEET FROM THISWhat a ride. We love you Royals. Thanks for all the fun.Give me a day or so to catch my breath and catch up on some chores. I will be back Monday and resume regular publication...
View ArticleTHE PLAGUE OF EBOLA, THE SCOURGE OF CAPITALISM, THE HAUNTING SPECTRE OF THE...
GLOBAL CAPITAL LOOKS IN THE MIRRORAll right, after a light schedule during post season baseball, Scission returns with a Theoretical Monday that is questionable as to whether or not it qualifies as...
View ArticleA CALL OUT FROM RUSSIA TO GLOBAL CAPITAL, "WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON BOYS?"
People detained by Russian police for being suspected of violating immigration rules wait to be escorted to a police station during an action at a street market in Moscow, RussiaSome were deported...
View ArticleTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF WORKER XU LIZHI
ALIENATION?WHAT DO YOU THINK?Friends of Xu Lizhi, a Foxconn worker who committed suicide in September at the age of 24, are honoring their friend by publishing translations of his poems into English....
View ArticleKURDISH ACTIVIST MEMET AKSOY TELLS OPPRESSED OF THE WORLD, " YOUR ENEMIES ARE...
I have zero time to write anything, but I just bumped into this on my way out. Check it out from TamilNet.‘Solidarity of oppressed nations needed to defeat global system of oppression’[TamilNet,...
View ArticleU.S.PRISONERS AND MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION / THEN AND NOW
Jails and Cops Friday is back with a look at the past and a guy who is trying to dig it up. We'll be talking about medical experimentation on prisoners (which by the way, when I did a little research...
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