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International News : Why the US Stimulus Package Will Fail
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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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International News : Russia Bluffing When It Says It Will Recognize Abkhazia
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 09:22 PM PST -
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Russia Bluffing When It Says It Will Recognize Abkhazia
Gwynne Dyer - March 26, 2008 - Last month Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, and most of the NATO countries recognized it. Russia condemned this as an illegal and dangerous precedent, and hinted that it might recognize other breakaway states like Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But early next month Russian President Vladimir Putin will show up at the NATO summit in Bucharest, in one of his last official acts before passing power to the president-elect, Dmitri Medvedev. He will not have recognized Abkhazia or South Ossetia. He was only bluffing.
intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=955635&auth=Dyer%2c+Gwynne
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International News : For An Arctic Nuclear-Free Zone
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 12:45 PM PST -
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For An Arctic Nuclear-Free Zone
The Hindu - Ramesh Thakur - News Analysis - It will be an exemplary means of foreclosing competitive militarisation. As a non-native speaker of English, I have always been intrigued by the phrase "polar opposites." Fact is, nothing so resembles the North Pole as the South Pole. Based on this polar symmetry, there exists the opportunity and an increasingly urgent need to emulate Antarctica and establish an Arctic nuclear-free zone. Such a step would have significant environmental, conservation, conflict avoidance, and scientific cooperation benefits.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/09/21/
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International News : The Alternative Media: Free Speech is Still Possible
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Posted by : rycroft
on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 11:51 PM PST -
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The Alternative Media: Free Speech is Still Possible
Ramzy Baroud - To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, in addressing the issues, catering to the concerns, and responding to the woes of the general public, the overwhelming majority of people who are almost completely disregarded by the corporate media everywhere.
PalestineChronicle.com
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International News : Reality, Hyperreality and Public Relations
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 07:09 PM PST -
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Reality, Hyperreality and Public Relations
Sunshine Communications - Alan Rycroft - Some people believe that postmodernity has taken us beyond reality, to a place communication theorist Jean Baudrillard has termed “hyperreality” – where “reality” has been drowned in an ocean of media, messages and symbols, spun out by legions of PR professionals and elites manipulating “reality” through the all-pervasive mediascape.
I believe that the opposite is true – that the interactive, social media that have been embraced by youth and young adults around the world – have provided the means to effectively counter the PR manipulations which have had a huge influence on western culture since Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernay’s first laid out the path for the PR industry in the 1920s (Ewen, 1996).
www.SunshineCommunications.ca
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Canada News : Time To Show Real Leadership
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 11:06 PM PST -
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Time To Show Real Leadership
Ceasefire Insider Blog - Mike Wallace - As I hoped it would, my earlier post set the cat among the pigeons. Many who responded heaped scorn upon me and pointed out (quite correctly) that the Liberals began Canadian involvement in Afghanistan, and that the Liberal motion, calling for a delayed withdrawal but meanwhile supporting the military effort, was seriously flawed. Others pointed out (correctly) that the NDP has tabled its own motion calling for our military to withdraw from Afghanistan. Still others were shaking their heads in disbelief that the NDP voted with the Conservatives.
http://ceasefireinsider.wordpress.com
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USA News : The Damn Dam Story
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 11:12 PM PST -
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The Damn Dam Story
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.
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International News : Terrorism Soft and Hard, Big and Small
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 11:10 PM PST -
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Terrorism Soft and Hard, Big and Small
“A prince ought, above all things, always to endeavour in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man.” -- Nicolo Machiavelli in The Prince (1515)
PEJ News - Alan Rycroft - American academic Joseph S. Nye Jr. (2004) argues that the global balance of power has shifted, and continues to shift, from hard, military power, to soft, information power. The criticality of soft power is evident when examined in the context of mass society, mass media, the globally-networked Information Age, and modern terrorism.
www.PEJ.org
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Canada News : Canadian Broadcast Regulation In Today’s Media Environment
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 09:12 PM PST -
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Canadian Broadcast Regulation In Today’s Media Environment
Sunshine Communications - Alan Rycroft - Today, as in all ages, there is a need to protect minorities and minority opinions. As well, in order to prevent the de facto commercial regulation of broadcast media, it is necessary and beneficial for the Canadian government and its institutions to enforce regulations that promote Canadian culture and diversity and protect all citizens from hate and libel.
www.SunshineCommunications.ca
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Islands - Victoria News : Helping Our Homeless Neighbours in Victoria
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Posted by : rycroft
on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 11:09 PM PST -
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Helping Our Homeless Neighbours in Victoria
Newsdaily Canada - Penny Tennenhouse - You read in the paper and on the Internet every day worthy ways you can give to people who are less fortunate than us. But here are a few specific ideas about helping homeless people locally and possibly responding to, as the spirit moves you. And please feel free to pass this on widely to others. Here are some places where you can volunteer or make donations...
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International News : The Drug God
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Posted by : rycroft
on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 07:54 PM PST -
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The Drug God
Mary Collins - Dark, black clouds are covering all our lands. These clouds are formed by lies, dishonesty and fraud, so much that no bright sun can send its rays of truth to penetrate and reach the view of man.
The clouds come from Psychiatry, the new born faith that's based on whim, on false created ills and deadly drugs given "to help" but which instead cause suicides and death.
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International News : Spiralling to Disaster in the Middle East
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Posted by : rycroft
on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 10:33 PM PST -
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Spiralling to Disaster in the Middle East
Newsdaily Canada - F.H. Knelman, Ph.D. - The dynamics of the US domination of the wording of the UN resolution on the Mideast crisis contains negative feedbacks. A condition that was not inserted, namely the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, would never be accepted by them. This same condition is the only acceptable one for Lebanon. The fact that the UN resolution was made dependent on both of the above, formulating it merely made it certain it would not be accepted. What is required is a resolution that does not require prior acceptance by either Israel or Lebanon. It is quite possible that the Bush administration has been indulging in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Lebanon has now formally rejected the UN resolution.
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International News : Weather or Not: Bush an International Criminal?
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Posted by : rycroft
on Monday, August 07, 2006 - 10:51 AM PST -
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Weather or Not: Bush an International Criminal?
Newsdaily Canada - F.H. Knelman, Ph.D. - "Whereas in the past human impacts were local, reversible and escapable through migration, they are now typically global, irreversible and inescapable." - Paul Ehrlich
George W. Bush is undeniably an international criminal whose crimes include the invasion of Iraq, contrary to international law, resulting in the death of some 2,600 Americans and as many as 50,000 Iraqi civilians. But this is still less of a crime than this mindless bully committed by deliberately suppressing the scientific assessment of climate change by America¹s own climate experts. Now instead of thinking about this problem as a global disaster, possibly a few decades away, new alarming evidence has reduced the forecast to a few years. Bush must now not only be impeached by Congress, but tried as the ultimate global villain before the International Criminal Court (ICC). This very troubling new evidence has to do with the world¹s rain forests, particularly the Amazon. The result could be a global disaster, not even equalled by an all-out nuclear war by the superpowers.
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International News : Ignorning Geneva Convention Spawns More Terrorism
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 09:39 PM PST -
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Ignorning Geneva Convention Spawns More Terrorism
Newsdaily Canada - Fred Knelman, PhD - Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister, gave a clever response to the issue of collateral damage to combatants in the Israeli attack on Hezbollah. He said, ³Look what happened in the war against Nazi Germany, where the Allied attack killed thousands of civilians². True, but he did not add that this spawned the Geneva Conventions which specifically bans nondiscrimination between combatants and non-combatants in an inter-nation war. That¹s the rub, since the Mideast war is not between distinct nations but between Israel, a nation, and Hezbollah, a terrorist group. But beyond the reach of the legal there is a more powerful kingdom of human rights and welfare, applied particularly to non-military citizens.
Iran¹s total support of Hezbollah could well turn out to be counter-productive. This is so because the current division in the UN Security Council is over the severity of sanctions concerning Iran¹s uranium enrichment program. This would play directly into support of U.S. policy. Nevertheless, as we have pointed out previously, the above enrichment program is not an immediate problem but years away. The fact that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization has strengthened the U.S.¹s hard line support of Israel and Israel¹s unrestrained response at the cost of thousands of civilian deaths. Also, Hezbollah¹s successful Jihad policy has encouraged other terrorists and neo-terrorist Islamic groups. At the same time, Israel¹s policy has strengthened Jihadist policy. This is a classic example of the ecology of politics. The tactics of a terrorist organization trigger a terrorist response and the dynamics are accelerated. Thus action leads to reaction and reaction to endless twin responses. Finally, in general, all groups or states dominated by fundamentalism are the first to use terror tactics. In so doing they have sacrificed the only truly democratic state, i.e. Lebanon.
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International News : The Summer of 1914
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 11:29 PM PST -
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The Summer of 1914
William S. Lind - July 19, 2006 - With Hezbollah's entry into the war between Israel and Hamas, Fourth Generation war has taken another developmental step forward. For the first time, a non-state entity has gone to war with a state not by waging an insurgency against a state invader, but across an international boundary. Again we see how those who define 4GW simply as insurgency are looking at only a small part of the picture.
I think the stakes in the Israel-Hezbollah-Hamas war are significantly higher than most observers understand. If Hezbollah and Hamas win – and winning just means surviving, given that Israel's objective is to destroy both entities – a powerful state will have suffered a new kind of defeat, again, a defeat across at least one international boundary and maybe two, depending on how one defines Gaza's border. The balance between states and 4GW forces will be altered worldwide, and not to a trivial degree.
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