The Zapatistas

Don't let a good movement go to waste, or, organizing ain't Glam.


S&P


Chomsky: The Assault on Education

Lawyers, Gun$ & Money reports that PETA will soon put its paws into porn.

Today's...

"It’s just that conservative ideas are born out of social cataclysms—the French Revolution, abolition, the Russian Revolution, the New Deal, the 1960s—in which people with power lose power. Real concrete power: over peasants, slaves, workers, blacks, wives. Conservatism, strange as it may sound, is the voice of the dispossessed: the aristocrats, masters, employers, whites, and husbands who’ve had their power taken away from them and want it back."

Wednesday Roundup

Religion doesn't have to be full of nutjobs


Mother Jones explains the London Riots

Mainstream media and Magical Thinking or, Why Conservative Media Understands Deficits Better (it's all about the money, stupid).

Democratic, small communities using local food and energy VS. Extinction

What we need are tough decisions that require virtue to address.

But until that, there's this , which is precisely what Zizek argues against here.

Reading this week

Corey Robin posted a very thorough discussion about Obama (BHO) and the debt ceiling.

Game Theory, Debt Ceilings, Lost in the Strategery

NPR's non-apology

We Are Respectable Negroes posts on Tea Party Racism.

[I will continue to update this post over the next week.]