Category Archives: Israel

The Bombing of Syria, on general principles

I don’t have a lot to say about the most recent American war crime. It does go to show, however, how little it mattered in the 2016 election (you recall, I hope, how in that election, as in every single … Continue reading

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Same Old, Same Old

Green Party activists, especially those motivated by anti-war sentiment, have no difficulty demonstrating the alignment between the Republican and Democratic parties, upholders both of the American Empire, through brutal military means. David Swanson imagines Trump’s budget originating in the thought, … Continue reading

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Reality Rejection, Incorporated

  In the last several days the Siege of Aleppo has ended. The rebels holding the city have been defeated by the Syrian government forces, aided by Russian air force bombing. There is some talk of this being a turning … Continue reading

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David Lee Fry and Me

  I was incarcerated for about a month in Multnomah County Jail this summer, awaiting trial for trespassing against Fred Meyer.  While there I met David Fry, one of those armed occupiers of the Malheur federal bird sanctuary.  The last … Continue reading

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Dialectical Inversion Dictates: We Are Russia

I translate Russian professionally.  O.K.?  And man, is the United States these days an authoritarian tyranny in the guise of an elective republic. . !  Russia is our Future, Comrade!  Viva Ché!  Um . . Russia has come out of … Continue reading

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This is how the System Rejects Real Change

Michael hi this is Emma I am just writing to let you know that a motion has been made to be voted on by the SCC to expel you from the Pacific Green Party. What this would mean is that … Continue reading

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We Invaded Another Country

but that’s okay, we invaded this small, remote country two weeks ago.  The wording of the Headline is interesting, don’t you think?  We invade a country and we learn about it in the frame, “Pentagon Confirms U.S. Grounds Troops in … Continue reading

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Minutes of meeting of 24 March, preceded by German poem

das ungeordnete Kafe   es gibt zwei Mädchen am nächsten Tisch hinter Ladentisch zwei mehr eto vsyo und ich. nemets   D. Westerlund and C. Miller joined by H. Soles, meeting called to order on time, at 6:30. The whole … Continue reading

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Significant Contradiction, neslyuchaino

The following chart accompanying an analysis of the Angst americanus [my words for it] by Kevin Drum of Mother Jones, bears some close examination: If one looks at the fact that the personal economic condition [read, real per capita wage, line and … Continue reading

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Dissolve NATO

This just in, from the conservative British daily newspaper, the Telegraph Nato cannot defend its eastern allies and Russian tanks could be in the Baltic capitals within 60 hours according to new analysis from a US think tank. Current forces … Continue reading

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