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International News : Why the US Stimulus Package Will Fail
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 10:07 PM PST -
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Why the US Stimulus Package Will Fail
The Bullet - No. 184 - David Harvey - Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since 1980 or so will almost certainly increase. The manner, form, spatiality and time of these surface disruptions are almost impossible to predict, but that they will occur with greater frequency and depth is almost certain. The events of 2008 have therefore to be situated in the context of a deeper pattern. Since these stresses are internal to the capitalist dynamic (which does not preclude some seemingly external disruptive event like a catastrophic pandemic also occurring), then what better argument could there be, as Marx once put it, "for capitalism to be gone and to make way for some alternative and more rational mode of production."
I begin with this conclusion since I still find it vital to emphasize if not dramatize, as I have sought to do over and over again in my writings over the years, that failure to understand the geographical dynamics of capitalism or to treat the geographical dimension as in some sense merely contingent or epiphenomenal, is to both lose the plot on how to understand capitalist uneven geographical development and to miss out on possibilities for constructing radical alternatives. But this poses an acute difficulty for analysis since we are constantly faced with trying to distill universal principles regarding the role of the production of spaces, places and environments in capitalism's dynamics, out of a sea of often volatile geographical particularities. So how, then, can we integrate geographical understandings into our theories of evolutionary change? Let us look more carefully at the tectonic shifts.
www.socialistproject.ca/bullet
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USA News : The Nationalization Option: Saving the Auto Industry
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 07:49 PM PST -
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The Nationalization Option: Saving the Auto Industry
Jack Random - Jazzman Chronicles - Disseminate Freely - With the economy still stuck in a spiral descent legislators who could not find the bearings or strength of character to oppose the trillion dollar bailout of the financial sector are suddenly finding old time religion in opposing a bailout for the auto industry.
Those on the left say: Why save the collapsing remnants of a failed capitalist system? Those on the right say: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Let the market manifest. It’s how the system is supposed to work. Both are wrong.
www.jazzmanchronicles.blogspot.com
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Islands - Victoria News : OPEN CINEMA Season Six Launches October 8
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 10:30 PM PST -
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OPEN CINEMA Season Six Launches October 8th
1. Season Six launches October 8th, 2008
2. MediaNet's Eco Doc Program
3. Host a documentary screening to help stop the deportation of war resisters
4. April 2008 Fundraiser update
5. Thanks to OC sponsors
www.opencinema.ca
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USA News : The Case for Bush's Impeachment
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 11:44 PM PST -
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The Case for Bush's Impeachment
Jazzman Chronicles - Jack Random - With the latest revelations of a forged document ordered by the White House to press a fallacious case for war with Iraq, the case for impeachment has become so compelling that congress should prosecute its own leaders for dereliction of duty if they fail to act.
Moreover, as the Iraqi government makes it absolutely clear they will demand a set timeline for American military withdrawal, we can safely peel away yet another phony rationale for the continuing occupation: It is not for the Iraqi people; it never was. It is not to assure the stability of the Iraqi government; it never was.
WWW.JAZZMANCHRONICLES.BLOGSPOT.COM
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Canada News : Law Activists Press PM on Omar Khadr
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Posted by : rycroft
on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 01:58 PM PST -
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Law Activists Press PM on Omar Khadr
Lawyers Against the War - The letter, which is being circulated for signatures by Lawyers Against the War (LAW), had signatures from a wide spectrum of people in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including lawyers, academics, and peace and social justice advocates. Such diverse groups as the Canadian Arab Federation, Jews for a Just Peace, the U.S. National Lawyers Guild and several Canadian trade union committees were represented in the list of signatories. The letter was sent to Harper and all members of Parliament July 30, although LAW spokesperson Gail Davidson of Vancouver, B.C., said more signatures will be gathered and they will also be presented to the government at a later date.
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International News : Afghanistan- Pentagon Admits US "Losing Ground and Slipping Backwards"
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 09:29 AM PST -
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Afghanistan- Pentagon Admits US "Losing Ground and Slipping Backwards"
Compiled by Janet Eaton - According to a new Pentagon report, Taliban militants have regrouped after their initial fall from power and "coalesced into a resilient insurgency." The report paints a grim picture of the conflict, concluding that Afghanistan's security conditions have deteriorated sharply while the fledgling national government in Kabul remains incapable of extending its reach throughout the country or taking effective counternarcotics measures.
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USA News : Nuclear Power Kills Billions of Fish
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 09:53 PM PST -
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Nuclear Power Kills Billions of Fish
U.S.: Criticism of NPP Fish Kills
WNA Weekly Digest, 15 August 2003; Press Agency ANP (NL), 12 August 2003 - While the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry lobby group, continues to tout nuclear power as environmental friendly, the once-through cooling system used by the majority of U.S. NPPs has again come under increased criticism by two different state authorities.
(591.5536) NIRS - Both the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board Central Coastal Region criticized the use of coastal and river water to cool nuclear power stations. State authorities concluded that the routine operation of nuclear power stations is killing billions of fish and destroying marine and aquatic habitats by sucking in tremendous amounts of water each day and spewing it out as hot water.
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USA News : Sears US Protests for Father's Day
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Posted by : rycroft
on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 07:43 PM PST -
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Sears US Protests for Father's Day
Forest Ethics - News Release - June 13, 2008 - No necktie: Sears to receive nationwide protests for Father's Day. Beleaguered company faces 9th consecutive month of environmental protests. Junk mail excess and outdated policies out of step with increasingly green industry
www.ForestEthics.org or www.catalogcutdown.org
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USA News : Join Us In the Peace Room
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 09:08 PM PST -
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Join Us In the Peace Room
Codepink - The central command center of an electoral campaign is called The War Room, but CODEPINK'S peaceroom2008.org will be the heart and mind of our work to make sure that ending the occupation of Iraq and preventing a war with Iran are at the top of the political agenda in this election cycle. We will be bird-dogging the presidential candidates, going to the Republican National Convention in Denver and the Democratic National Convention in Minneapolis, as well as continuing our crucial presence in the halls of Congress.
peaceroom2008.org
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Canada News : Because Everyone In Canada Lives In An Igloo
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 09:31 PM PST -
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Because Everyone In Canada Lives In An Igloo
Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, these are some questions people from all over the world are asking. Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted on an International Tourism Website. Obviously the answers are a joke; but the questions were really asked!
Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow?(England)
A. We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around and watch them die.
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USA News : Another American War – Look Out Earth
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:27 PM PST -
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Another American War – Look Out Earth
Newsdaily Canada - Jim Miles - True to the American manner of meeting challenges and desiring to overcome them, a recent Time magazine cover led off with the title “How to Win The War On Global Warming” [1]. Accompanying that article, the UN Secretary-General demonstrated his Washington consensus credentials with a commentary titled “The Right War.”[2] If the American history of war is to be considered, earth itself is in trouble. The “war on drugs” has been an ongoing fiasco, with billions put into various corners of the world mostly causing death and destruction between different factions killing each other off and – in the homeland - leading to the incarceration of millions of people – mainly black. The current global war on terror is also a moral and financial fiasco, expected to ultimately cost 3 – 5 trillion dollars just from Afghanistan and Iraq alone.
www.Newsdaily.ca
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USA News : What Seeds Are You Planting on Earth Day?
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Posted by : rycroft
on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 09:01 PM PST -
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What Seeds Are You Planting on Earth Day?
CODEPINK - We are in love with our planet. One of the reasons we work for peace is to nurture our entire planet; we want our beautiful Mother Earth to flourish. CODEPINK is one of the few groups that connect war and the environment. Pink and green are gorgeous together, don't you think? As natural as a stem and a flower.
War is definitely not green. It is, in fact, quite the opposite. The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of oil in the world and the world's larger polluter, generating 750,000 tons of toxic waste annually. If we stop funding the war for oil in Iraq, our tax dollars can go toward developing clean, green sources of energy that will help us build a healthy, peaceful planet.
www.codepink4peace.org
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USA News : The Cost of War: Steep and Irreversible
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 09:48 PM PST -
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The Cost of War: Steep and Irreversible
Jazzman Chronicles - Jack Random - The Battle for Basra gave way to the Siege of Sadr City, leaving in its wake a broken Iraqi government, the promise of inclusion irrevocably betrayed, a surge of violence, death and destruction, and the words of General David Petraeus on the progress of the war still ringing in our ears: “Fragile and reversible.”
After five years, at a cost approaching a trillion dollars, with 4036 dead American soldiers, tens of thousands wounded and as many or more than a million Iraqi dead, with apologies to the General, “fragile and reversible” is no progress at all.
The die is cast, the outcome set in stone, yet the costs of war continue to be manifest in new and disturbing ways: A mounting trade deficit, the national debt, a falling dollar, the price of food and gas, a stunted economy, an emboldened China, a stark reversal of fortune in Afghanistan, and global instability from the Middle East to Africa to Tibet and Haiti in our own back yard.
www.jazzmanchonicles.blogspot.com
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