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State Funerals, Amnesia and Anarchism

27-05-2013 22:37 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

°Response to the statement of FAU on the death of Chavez. Editor Collective EL LIBERTARIO (Venezuela). Originally published -in Spanish- in TIERRA Y LIBERTAD, Madrid, May 2013, # 298, p. 3-6. Internet ->

http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.com/2013/05/funerales-de-estado-amnesia-y-anarquismo.html. *** In memory of our beloved comrade Rafael Sposito (a.k.a.) "Daniel Barrett"

Guantanamo: A pinnacle of depravity!

24-05-2013 14:11 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The folowing article considers Guantanamo as an example of the banality of evil. It also notes the similarity between the illegal enslavement, deprivation and torture of the detainees at Guantanamo - to produce information; and earlier forms of US slavery - to produce different commodities.

UG#642 - Living a 3-Dimensional Life (Living Moneyless, Walden #1)

A poem by Wendell Berry starts us off on a differently paced, more musical set of episodes this episode. As a counter to what Jacques Fresco terms 'base articiality of materialism and mindless consumption' we weave a tapestry of thoughts including those from iconoclastic earthy thinkers including Suelo, the moneyless resident of a Utah desert from whom we heard in episode 600 and the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Crisis of Civilization Podcast#3 Sibel Edmond: the most gagged person in the USA

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. This week, Nafeez mosaddeq Ahmed released an article about her story which has gone viral. You can read the article "Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?" here

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2013/05/509561.html

Is NATO planting the 'sectarian' bombs in Iraq & Pakistan?

18-05-2013 00:32 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Moscow to try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to his plans to get his friends in the US and the EU to invade Syria and Iran but gets a frosty response. Meanwhile another Russian fleet moves into the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria and Iran get a Russian upgrade to their anti ship missile systems.

UG#638 - Modern Human Self-Enslavement (Addiction To The Consumer Treadmill)

This episode two speakers give us a new angle on why so many people seem addicted to living lives that leave them unfulfilled. Firstly, doctor and addiction specialist Gabor Maté gives a personal reflection on the question "Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted?". After a musical break we hear a radio adaptation of Consumed - The Human Experience, which looks at how marketing is finely tuned to hijacking human evolutionary drives.

UG#637 - The Preliminaries Of A Vision (Of A World We Might Want)

This week an invitation to reflect on capitalism in crisis not as an economic but a political phenomenon. We hear two 'bigger picture' talks on the interrelationships between Economics and Politics, one with a European focus, one which concentrates on USA. First Tariq Ali gives us "The Rotten Heart of Europe" summarising the machinations of the political elite in Europe. Next it is Gar Alperovitz, author of "America Beyond Capitalism", on the growth of US movements to decentralize wealth and ownership.

UG#636 - Bilking The Afflicted (Addiction, Drugs & Capitalism)

This episode we turn our attention to the 'War on Drugs', which as addiction specialist Gabor Maté points out is of course a war on drug users. We start with a hour on "The Science of Drug Politics" by former UK Government Chief Drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt whose testimony clearly suggests that scientific considerations were of minor interest to the politicians he was supposed to advise. Next we hear Dr. Maté who touches on some of the reasons why the War On Drugs may not be failure after all...

Religion - is - Politics!

11-05-2013 08:52 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Gender | World

Given the re-emergence of 'armed' fundamentalist religion in the middle east and the calls for Shariah law to become operational in the UK and Europe this article considers how and why religion has started to challenge for political power and how mainstream politics often mimics the form of a religion.

UG#635 - Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives On A Progressive Future)

07-05-2013 14:46 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Last episode we reflected on whether people's penchant for doomsday predictions and tales of the living dead was connected to their common experience of life under capitalism. This time, given the absence of an apocalyptic Mayan doomsday event, we ask whether a conscious effort to reject such catastrophism is in order, and what a progressive future might look like.

UG#634 - The Coming Apocalypse etc. (Catastrophism, Zombies, The "Fiscal Cliff")

On our last show before December 21st, 2012, we examine the spectre of 'catastrophe'. Does the popularity of undead imagery reveal anything about modern society? We begin by revisiting David Graeber's insights on Tiv mythology at the time of the African slave trade, then examine the underpinning of the modern university and schooling systems as a way to decode the barrage of modern day warnings of the 'Fiscal Cliff'.

UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)

Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters.

UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)

Whether in terms of biodiversity, Peak Oil, water shortages or whatever, we've looked many times on this show at the damaged and degraded planet earth that we are leaving for our children. This week we take another angle, looking at the damage done to the very brains and minds of our children.

The Thatcher Legacy, the Legacy of Dependency.

The freedom's we have enjoyed in our modern period are not the freedoms given to us by the gentrification and systemisation of our economy, but by the might of an empire. The Thatcher legacy is not derived from what we know to be true, but by what we don't know at all.

Make tower hamlets Council truthful - or a local 'mayor' may sink as Ken did!

21-04-2013 21:59 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles may be in for a surprise welcome in a most
untypical zone - the inner city, routinely "deprived" East London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Pickles may not be even aware himself that he may be the leader of a subliminal movement progressing modestly across Tower Hamlets that may end up with sinking Lutfur Rahman in the forthcoming 'mayor poll' in May 2014.

s144 - Damned Lies and No Useful Statistics

To tie in with the courtcase starting Monday in Brighton, when three squatters are going on trial under s144 and will not be pleading guilty, here's some analysis of the criminalisation of squatting in England and Wales..

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

UG#624 - The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)

As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.

UG#623 - Waking Up And Smelling The Kool-Aid (Finance Capital & Dictatorship)

12-03-2013 12:59 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

We accompany our continued reading of David Graeber with Richard Peet on the Rise of Finance Capital. In our second hour, an outspoken Chris Hedges gives his own account of the rise of neoliberalism and reports on the America you won't have heard about on Commercially Controlled media, which he researched for 2 years to write his latest book.

The film industry is the way?

08-03-2013 19:07 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

It is worth mentioning here that the idea stems from successful experiences carried out in Nigeria, Ghana and Brazilian Pará, being confined its originality at the initiative of proposing a mixed economy company, under the control of the Brazilian State, also integrating other several shareholders, for organizing, coordinating and providing technical consistency to the project.

World Analysis Newswire Archive

State Funerals, Amnesia and Anarchism

Guantanamo: A pinnacle of depravity!

UG#642 - Living a 3-Dimensional Life (Living Moneyless, Walden #1)

Crisis of Civilization Podcast#3 Sibel Edmond: the most gagged person in the USA

Is NATO planting the 'sectarian' bombs in Iraq & Pakistan?

UG#638 - Modern Human Self-Enslavement (Addiction To The Consumer Treadmill)

UG#637 - The Preliminaries Of A Vision (Of A World We Might Want)

UG#636 - Bilking The Afflicted (Addiction, Drugs & Capitalism)

Religion - is - Politics!

UG#635 - Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives On A Progressive Future)

UG#634 - The Coming Apocalypse etc. (Catastrophism, Zombies, The "Fiscal Cliff")

UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)

UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)

The Thatcher Legacy, the Legacy of Dependency.

Make tower hamlets Council truthful - or a local 'mayor' may sink as Ken did!

s144 - Damned Lies and No Useful Statistics

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

UG#624 - The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)

UG#623 - Waking Up And Smelling The Kool-Aid (Finance Capital & Dictatorship)

The film industry is the way?

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