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"Lies about Iraq. Cash to corrupt Afghanistan. Drone war blowback endangering us all. De-fund the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:44:31 +1200

“Lies about Iraq. Cash to corrupt Afghanistan. Drone war blowback endangering us all. De-fund the CIA!”

- http://bit.ly/10E98XN

workman: youmightfindyourself: Pages of a sketchbook Lebbeus...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:34:16 +1200

workman:

youmightfindyourself:

Pages of a sketchbook Lebbeus Woods worked on in New York, San Francisco, Vienna, Kraljevica, Vico Morcote, and NYC; 1995-1998 (via)

kateoplis: life elsewhere

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:30:13 +1200

kateoplis:

life elsewhere

thepeoplesrecord: On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:46:12 +1200

thepeoplesrecord:

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped explosives containing C-4 on the roof of a house where members of the black liberation & social justice organization MOVE lived. Right before, police attacked the house with 10,000 rounds of ammunition in 90 minutes, knowing that children were inside. The house burned for 45 minutes before hoses were turned on.

Eleven people, including founder John Africa, five adults & five children were killed. The incident also destroyed 65 homes in the area, leaving 250 homeless. Witnesses reported police officers shooting at those trying to escape from the fire that ensued.

MOVE continues to advocate for prisoners’ rights & for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal & nine MOVE members who were found guilty of the murder of a police officer in 1978.

bankston: letsbuildahome-fr: New Orleans Nightscapes I (part...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:44:10 +1200

bankston:

letsbuildahome-fr:

New Orleans Nightscapes I (part 1) by Frank Relle

…………..

I once got to ride around New Orleans in a thick night-time fog. (Not alcohol-induced.) It was scary and amazing.

interretialia: Induite vos quaestui quem vultis, neque...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:32:43 +1200

interretialia:

Induite vos quaestui quem vultis, neque quaestui quem habetis

jamesbonfire:

tastefullyoffensive:

[extrafabulouscomics]

i like the girl in the back whos dressed as the boss

A Bit Irish: Feck Off

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:25:41 +1200

A Bit Irish: Feck Off:

abitirish:

“Feck” is a Hiberno-English word unrelated to the more Anglo-Saxon “fuck”, a confusion which linguists call a “false cognate”.

“Hiberno-English” is the term given to English language words and phrases that are only found in Ireland, and are therefore overwhelmingly (although not necessarily)…

kicker-of-elves: preparations for the May Day Parade,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:45:41 +1200

kicker-of-elves:

preparations for the May Day Parade, Moscow

1934 Burton Holmes

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: May Day 2013 - Novosibirsk,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:43:39 +1200

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

May Day 2013 - Novosibirsk, Russia

“The May Day demonstration is a fighting review of the revolutionary forces of the proletariat; the Bolshevik party its vanguard. Here in our close column on this day, the fighting mood was like a show of our strength that summarizes all of our hard work.

“Our column was attended by the EIF, the AKM and the Komsomol, and some activists of the Communist Party. Leading our May Day was a friend of the column from the CFS.

“The eyes of the others were on our column, happily and loudly chanting slogans: ‘May 1st —International Workers’ Day! Hurray!’, ‘Long live the friendship of the peoples of the USSR,’ Under the banner of Lenin and Stalin — WIN!’

“Young people actively picked up and chanted the words of the revolutionary songs. Then unanimously we called upon the workers, ‘Stop asking for a handout from the bourgeoisie! Prepare an all-Russian strike!’

“At the end of the demonstration a meeting took place. At the rally, we were active in campaigning and advocacy. There were a lot of young people. More and more, their minds turn to the side of the Soviet era and more and more join the ranks of the fighters against the power of capital, for the victory of the socialist revolution.”

Photos and report: All Union Communist Party-Bolsheviks

kesters: linkasharonova: Oresund Bridge One of the reasons...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:29:53 +1200

kesters:

linkasharonova:

Oresund Bridge

One of the reasons why the Øresund bridge is one of my favourite bridges in the world it goes into a bridge then turns into a tunnel, you have to admit that is pretty damn cool

Why is Obama withholding secret torture report from Americans? | Marcy Wheeler

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:52:42 +1200

Why is Obama withholding secret torture report from Americans? | Marcy Wheeler:

[…] It may well be, for all the evidence the [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] report apparently presents about the CIA providing inaccurate information about the program even to the White House, that the White House is shielding the institutions of the White House and the presidency.

Consider, for example, how the Bush White House unusually intervened to keep the torture program secret. According to a court document submitted by then CIA Director Leon Panetta in 2009, his predecessor at CIA, George Tenet, wasn’t the person who made the torture program a “Special Access Program” with sharply limited access, which is how it would normally work. Unnamed officials in the National Security Council did:

Officials at the National Security Council, (NSC) determined that in light of the extraordinary circumstances affecting the vital interests of the United States and the sensitivity of the activities contemplated in the CIA terrorist detention and interrogation program, it was essential to limit access to the information in the program. NSC officials established a special access program governing access to information relating to the CIA terrorist detention and interrogation program.

The Bush-era Executive Order governing classification and the current one both require presidential authorization for someone besides one of several agency heads — in the case of the torture program, Tenet — to make a special access program. Thus, as the Federation of American Scientists’ Steven Aftergood notes, “if the NSC established a special access program, as Panetta said, then it must have been authorized by the President himself. In effect, the President established the special access program.” The former director of the office that oversees classified information, Bill Leonard, agrees. “If it wasn’t one of those [Agency heads] who established the SAP in question, there would have to be an authorization from the President authorizing that official to establish a SAP.”

While the CIA appears to be the entity stalling on the torture report, according to Panetta, the White House ultimately created and owns the program.

It’s not just Bush’s NSC that has taken extraordinary measures to keep the torture program secret. While Barack Obama’s administration has already permitted the declassification of a great deal of information on the torture program, in fall 2009 Obama took the almost unprecedented step of having his National Security Advisor — at the time, retired Gen. Jim Jones — submit a declaration in the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking release of documents pertaining to the torture program. It did so to hide the role of the White House in torture.

The judge in the suit, Alvin Hellerstein, believed that a short phrase describing “the source of CIA’s authority” to conduct torture had been incorrectly redacted by the administration. Jones’ declaration, which remains sealed and unrecorded on the docket, apparently argued that phrase couldn’t be released.

Judge Hellerstein lost that argument (the 2nd Circuit overruled him, relying in part on Jones’ declaration), so we don’t know precisely what the phrase in question said. But other documents in the case make it clear the phrase refers to a Sept. 17, 2001, presidential “directive” that, in part, set up the torture program. Former CIA lawyer John Rizzo, who was a key figure in setting up the torture program, has described the directive. “A few days after the attacks, President Bush signed a top-secret directive to CIA authorizing an unprecedented array of covert actions against Al Qaeda and its leadership” including “the most ambitious, sensitive and potentially explosive new program authorized by the President — the capture, incommunicado detention and aggressive interrogation of senior Al Qaeda operatives.”

But as Rizzo makes clear, that directive not only authorized torture, it authorized a range of counterterrorism programs. The directive also authorized — and may still form part of the authorization for — the targeted killing program, most commonly associated with drones. Indeed, when the 2nd Circuit kept the phrase redacted, it cited other activities: “the withheld information pertains to intelligence activities unrelated to the discontinued program.”

President Obama’s administration may have already released a great deal of information on the torture program (which should mean much of the information in the report has already been declassified). But when it came to revealing the Bush White House’s role in unilaterally authorizing torture, Obama went to unusual lengths to keep the information secret. [++]

"I know there are some people who become irritated whenever I talk about Cuba, but why should I not..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:08:35 +1200

“

I know there are some people who become irritated whenever I talk about Cuba, but why should I not talk about it. They played a crucial role to ensure that Namibia attains its independence.

On this special day, we salute our brothers and sisters from the Frontline States and other African countries, the Cuban Internationalist Forces, and other progressive forces who supported us in our struggle.

We will always cherish your solidarity and support, which contributed to the defeat of apartheid colonialism and the birth of the Republic of Namibia on 21st March 1990.

”

- Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, commemorating 35 years since the Cassinga Massacre

Thanks to Agent of Change

(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: May Day 2013 - New York City Rally for...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:42:59 +1200

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

May Day 2013 - New York City

Rally for immigrant and worker rights at Union Square Park, May 1, 2013.

Photos by redguard

o o: REASON DISPLACES ALL LOVE: Libidinal Economising in the NEP-era Soviet Union

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:38:43 +1200

o o: REASON DISPLACES ALL LOVE: Libidinal Economising in the NEP-era Soviet Union:

hhnnccnnll:

‘Science and industry denounced as metaphysics not merely romantic sexual love, but every kind of universal love, for reason displaces all love.’

Theodor Adorno and Marx Horkheimer, The Dialectic of Enlightenment

‘She had suffered an acute attack of ‘love’- the name given to a disease…

Rhizombie: thestolencaryatid: people on tumblr really need to stop romanticizing...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:06:46 +1200

Rhizombie: thestolencaryatid: people on tumblr really need to stop romanticizing...:

thestolencaryatid:

people on tumblr really need to stop romanticizing the “situation” - social, epistemic, economic, of the oppressed/subjugated/colonized. mutliple writers and theorists of color (P.H. Collins, Jose Medina, F.G. Selgas, bell hooks) have warned against this facile privileging…

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Mon, 06 May 2013 16:26:54 +1200

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Mon, 06 May 2013 14:57:01 +1200

"There’s tar sands all over your Facebook. Click to tell Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us to stop..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:44:25 +1200

“There’s tar sands all over your Facebook. Click to tell Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us to stop dragging us backward.”

- http://bit.ly/15btKPN

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Istanbul,Turkey: ”We celebrate all...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:10:58 +1200

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Istanbul,Turkey: ”We celebrate all laborers and workers on May Day.”

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: May Day 1963 - Havana, Cuba El Che,...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:12:27 +1200

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

May Day 1963 - Havana, Cuba

El Che, Raul y Fidel