RESISTANCE

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas to disperse rioting protesters as thousands marched in Athens on Sunday to mark the police killing of a teenager, which unleashed the country's worst riots in decades last year. Hooded youths broke from the march of more than 3,000 people to smash shop windows and set garbage bins alight. Riot police chased groups of stone-throwing protesters in deserted streets in the center of the city, filled with tear gas. Two protesters and 16 policemen were... Read Full Story

  Web sites used as sources: http://whatreallyhappened.com/ http://www.presstv.ir/ http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/ http://palestinethinktank.com/author/gilad-atzmon/ ……… Some of the Specific articles used: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts05072009.html Criminalizing Criticism of Israel  . http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?article_ID=101690&categ_ID=1&edition_id=1 Security forces arrest two more suspected spies for Israel . http://news.antiwar... Read Full Story

[This post does not necessarily reflect the opinions of anyone in any boycott movement, apart from those of the writer. This post should not be read as an indication of the content of any private discussions, nor is it intended to tell or instruct others on what they should be doing to boycott Israel. Posts directly related to the one below are: Campus Gaza: Academic Boycotts and Complicit Silence (12 Jan. 2009); Boycott Israel: Montreal Professors and Academic Employees (24 Jan. 2009... Read Full Story

Part 1 of 10 Part 2 of 10 Part 3 of 10 Part 4 of 10 Part 5 of 10 Part 6 of 10 Part 7 of 10 Part 8 of 10 Part 9 of 10 Part 10 of 10 Posted in Colonialism, Fascism, Imperialism, Racism Tagged: Gaza, Israel, Norman Finkelstein, Palestine, Palestinians Read Full Story

At Home in a Dysfunctional Family It was like listening to a family argument, my family, the style of argumentation, the hot flashes of temper, the rhetorical devices, the particular turns of phrase, even right down to the sounds of the voices themselves, that had my ears glued to the speakers for an hour last night listening to an old, maybe the first, virulent exchange between these two foes. One, Alan M. Dershowitz (Harvard law professor), reminded me very much of my father, able to... Read Full Story

A little over a week ago I rented a vehicle to take care of some chores, (the only time I feel pressed to rent; in this instance filling a third of the van’s tank of gas cost $61). My chores took me past Kahnawake (Kahk’nuh’wa’guh), the famous Mohawk First Nation (or reservation) at the western doorway to the island of Montreal. I had little time, little intention to do anything like a photo essay, and the light was fading fast. Here then are some randomly collected surface images. MURALIA... Read Full Story

Some media are calling these “riots” by “extremists,” while others insist on speaking of “self-styled anarchists” (as opposed to officially incorporated and state-recognized anarchists?) — I prefer to see these events as a transnational festival of insurgence that targets some of those insititutions that embody and breed violence locally and internationally: the police, the state, and transnational capital. Internationally, a wikipedia page on the current Greek riots has already gone up... Read Full Story

Some media are calling these “riots” by “extremists,” while others insist on speaking of “self-styled anarchists” (as opposed to officially incorporated and state-recognized anarchists?) — I prefer to see these events as a transnational festival of insurgence that targets some of those insititutions that embody and breed violence locally and internationally: the police, the state, and transnational capital. Internationally, a wikipedia page on the current Greek riots has already gone up... Read Full Story

[Further update: stay in touch with events at the New School with the Radical Student Union's blog ] [Further update 2: stay in touch with events at the New School with the New School in Exile blog ] [more addenda follow below] ••••••• In response to the last post on the New School occupation now underway, Chelsea writes from the New School: The students of the New School would like everyone to know that the occupation is still going on. We are working hard to create and foster... Read Full Story

(A listing of some popular quotes, from proponents of the new imperialism, that one increasingly finds quoted across a variety of publications.) A Debate over US ‘Empire’ Builds in Unexpected Circles By Dan Morgan Washington Post, August 10, 2003 William Kristol , a neoconservative editor of the Weekly Standard magazine: “If people want to say we’re an imperial power, fine.” ••••••• Alan Murray , Washington Bureau Chief of CNBC: “We are all, it seems, imperialists now... Read Full Story