Popular web site is sadly IMHO a good example of postmodern White-Supremacy

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Popular web site is sadly IMHO a good example of postmodern White-Supremacy

I want people from all ideologies and perspectives to try to bottle up the anger and conduct some ethical discourse about this. This site came to my attention because of a video defending Zimmerman and attacking Trayvon martin that has been very popular online over the past few days. I find that it uses traditional racist propaganda methods to cleverly entrap many well meaning white people in it’s manipulative web of half-truth innuendos taken out of context and re-constructed to be palatable and feed of inner fears and misunderstandings. I will not shy from saying that these positions are very much inline with current New-Nazi movements in Europe and the US, and the rhetorical devices and propaganda tools it uses are straight out of the old-school 19th-20th century racism and are strikingly similar to what the Nazis used. 

I admit to having strong feelings about this but am trying to keep them bottled :)

Link  —  Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in editorial

First Leaked Pakistani Report on U.S. Drone War Undermines Claims of Low Civilian Toll

Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/23/first_leaked_pakistani_report_on_us

 

Prisoners are less selfish than students: “They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect” (Business Insider Australia)

Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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greedProbably for the same reason poor people are less selfish than rich people (there’s ample evidence for this): the harder one’s life, the more one understands that we depend on each other and that human success is predicated on being able to cooperate.

They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect | Business Insider Australia.

Reportback from Oakland

Posted: 2013/07/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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Powerful statement from an Oakland collective. Read it if you want to understand how most of the world feels…

trayvonoc's avatarTrayvon Martin Organizing Committee

*This was written by a collective out in Oakland who asked us to post it here. – TMOC

Vengeance for Trayvon: A Reportback from Oakland

Written on July 22nd, by a Collective in the Bay Area

“I’m tired of the marchin’, the rallyin’, the protestin’ 

We hoopin’ and hollerin’, still we gettin’ no justice”

 Dead Prez, ‘Made You Die’

            In the past week, the city of Oakland, along with the rest of the nation, has been shaken by a series of large protests and small-scale riots in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in Florida. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) and City Hall were largely taken by surprise by the massive outpouring of grief and rage of local residents, and both struggled – as a result of several high-profile court settlements which have forced the OPD to reconfigure its crowd control tactics – to contain…

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Show #42 Sandy Davies is back from Guatemala

Posted: 2013/07/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Podcasts
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Nicolas Sandy Davies was with us last month. Check out that show as well as his most recent article and assorted links: https://punkonomics.org/2013/06/18/show-37-war-crimes-as-policy-with-nicolas-sandy-davies/

The interview questions were:

> Tell us about your trip to Guatemala

>> What of the recent war crimes trial?

>> Historical context

>> not Bolivarian… but concessions were made after popular indigenous uprising… any hope?

Sandy mentioned Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People

> have you written anything new? working on something?

See Investing in Weapons, War, and Obama (Nicolas J.S. Davies, Z Magazine, May 2012)

***Update article coming soon***

> You tell a very ugly truth in your work.

>> I share this difficulty in my classes

>> talk about facts vs. ideologies

… but most sources with facts are somewhat left-wing or at least anti-imperial… my bias or do empires always tell lies?

> How can we bring about change?

>> Paraphrasing Sandy’s important comment: voting your conscious/3rd parties is NOT a waste of your vote (except in key states perhaps) but 99% of people vote for the DemRep party. Like in East Germany under communism, we really have a one party system and 99% of the people vote for it!

>> Sandy expressed skepticism about my idea of a party of the real left and real right (Socialist/Libertarian) that will only act to reform the political system and only enact policies by consensus. I hope this would allow taking power from the DemRep party and creating a functioning democracy but Sandy points out just how difficult this would be…

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