"IN WHOM CAN I TRUST": EXHIBIT ON THE SELDOM MENTIONED NAZI PERSECUTION OF...
No one much wants to talk about or has ever talked about the Nazi extermination campaign waged against the homosexual population of Germany and Europe.Now, someone is and has been...in South Africa...
View ArticleIRAN: FREE THE BAHA'I SEVEN NOW
Hey, Iran, it's time to get over it and free the Baha'i Seven and to quit persecuting the Baha'i faith in general. You may wonder just what the Iranian mullahs have against the Baha'i anyway. After...
View ArticleRESTYLED AS REAL ESTATE TRUSTS, PRIVATE PRISONS AVOID TAXES/MAKE GOOD...
The Corrections Corporation of America, which switched to a REIT structure, runs the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. (above), and estimates it will save $70 million in taxes this...
View ArticlePARIS 2005: WARNING LIGHTS FROM THE PARIS SURREALIST MOVEMENT
Theoretical Weekends at Scission has arrived again. Last week I brought you something on the 1992 LA Uprising by the Chicago Surrealist Group. This week it is the Paris Group of the Surrealist...
View ArticleDEVASTATION IN OKLAHOMA
People I have been watching the incredible and horrific devastation near Oklahoma City today and have nothing for Scission. Watching a two mile wide tornado moving through a populated area on live...
View ArticleHEALTHCARE INDUSTRY CEO'S DOING JUST FINE
Dr. George YancopoulusPresident and chief scientific officer, Regeneron Laboratories,Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,Tarrytown, N.Y.Salary: $850,000Total compensation: $81,551,448Company revenue: $1.38...
View Article"MORALS CRIMES" AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS CLASH IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is where increasing numbers of women are being arrested and essentially tortured for "morals crimes." Remember how all this shit was supposed to end with the Taliban being ousted. Yeah,...
View ArticleSTOCKHOLM JOINS PARIS, LONDON, LA, ATHENS, SEATTLE AND THE WORLD IN REVOLT
Disturbances of this sort are nearly unknown in Sweden, and certainly are on this scale. What began as rock throwing at police in the Husby area, where the shooting occurred has escalated. More than a...
View ArticleRE-EXAMINING THE LUCASVILLE PRISON UPRISING AND MORE
It's Prison Friday at Scission and I am just going to let this post from the San Francisco Bay View speak for itself.Bomani Shakur and Staughton Lynd speak to the Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising...
View ArticleSWEDEN: OPEN LETTER TO A NATION ON FIRE
It's theoretical weekends here at Scission and what I am dealing with here is both theory and practice and history and now. What is going on in Stockholm is the latest overt battlefield in the...
View ArticleCHECKING OUT FOR A BIT
Scission will be taking a hiatus for a couple of weeks, see you my friends and comrades in mid June...In the meantime, I suggest you all spend more time in the real world.
View ArticleTURKEY: "THE SELF ORGANIZATION OF LIFE"
I've been out of the country for a while, but I am back and so is Scission.Turkey was on my mind when I left and Turkey remains on my mind now that I am back. Turkey is an interesting case. A strange...
View ArticleMORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF INDIGENOUS REVOLUTION
Five hundred and twenty-one years ago Christopher Columbus showed up in the Americas and it has been a war and a revolution ever since. The war is by patriarchal capitalism against the indigenous...
View ArticleTHE RESIDENTS OF THESE CHINESE DEVELOPMENTS ARE BEING POISONED
It's late and I don't have much time, but I am nothing if I am not compulsive so I am getting you a Scission whether you want one or not.This story comes from China, but it could have come from the...
View ArticleJERRY ROAD HIS BIKE ON A SIDEWALK AND WENT TO JAIL
NOT BLACKNOT ARRESTEDNOT JAILEDHMMM.....The post below is both fortunately about something that happened that usually doesn't. It is also about what usually does and the good that did happen should...
View ArticleMEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
“No Future” poster, Dublin (photo by William Murphy, July 2009)It is theoretical weekends here at ye olde Scission Shoppe and I have one of those strange pieces that I like to share. I have not read...
View ArticleWEST VIRGINIA: ONE OF THE WORST OF THE WORST FOR GREYHOUNDS
As readers of Scission know by now, my best friend is an ex-racing greyhound. Hawk is our third greyhound and we have loved each of these wonderful dogs with all our hearts. As a result, I try to...
View ArticleBRAZIL: THE MULTITUDE STRIKE AGAIN
I want to post two separate pieces about the revolt going on in Brazil here today. In order to save space I think I will just withhold much comment of my own. Suffice it to say what we are seeing in...
View ArticleYOUR OLD MAN'S WAR IS OBSOLETE
War is on the way out.Huh?Really, war is old news.What we have these days are police actions usually with troops sent in because Capital (in the guise of the UN or NATO or the USA) defines something...
View ArticleWALTER RODNEY: A TIME FOR TRUTH
It has been thirty three years since Walter Rodney was killed and finally an international commission of inquiry is being set up. Rodney was co founder of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana and...
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