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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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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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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 : Indonesia Arrests Peaceful, Separatist Protestors
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 09:24 PM PST -
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Indonesia Arrests Peaceful, Separatist Protestors
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network - March 25, 2008 - On March 13, Indonesian police arrested twelve people in Manokwari, West Papua, during a demonstration against a 2007 law banning the display of separatist symbols, including the Morning Star Flag. The demonstrations also called for a referendum regarding the political status of West Papua and expressed opposition to the 2001 Special Autonomy Law that they claim has failed to bring improvement to the lives of Papuan people. As Human Right Watch has reported, one of the twelve arrested in Manokwari is reported to be a 16-year-old boy. As of March 25 there were reports that he had been released from custody but he may still face charges. On March 19, Indonesian security officials in Jayapura arrested four more Papuans in a similarly peaceful demonstration that opposed the same 2007 law. On March 25, security authorities arrested Eli Kaiway in connection with the peaceful demonstrations of March 13 and 19.
www.etan.org
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International News : Real-Life Star Wars: The Militarization of Space
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Posted by : rycroft
on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 09:24 PM PST -
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Real-Life Star Wars: The Militarization of Space
AlterNet - Stan Cox - November 15, 2007 - Last January 11, a missile launched from China's Xichang Space Center destroyed a satellite 537 miles above the Earth's surface. Although the target was a weather satellite belonging to China itself (shot down ostensibly because it was obsolete), the act clearly rattled the U.S. space establishment.
http://www.alternet.org/story/67699/
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International News : Climate Change Call to Action for December 8
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 09:13 PM PST -
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Climate Change Call to Action for December 8
ACT for the Earth - You have a power you may not have known about - the power to stop climate chaos. In this time of climate crisis, the world needs real life eco-heroes now more than ever, and it needs you to be one of them. George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, and their allies continue to stall, stonewall, and sabotage action on climate change as the world burns. Time is running out to avert a climate catastrophe, and we can't leave action on climate change in their hands any longer. And so, people around the world are preparing for the largest planetary day of action yet to stop climate chaos. It's up to us now.
www.globalclimatecampaign.org
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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/
stories/2007092156561300.htm
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International News : Recession Too Mild A Word
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 08:08 PM PST -
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Recession Too Mild A Word
Newsdaily Canada - Pablo Ouziel - Except for a select group of corrupt politicians, powerful businessmen, media barons and pundits of the law, the rest of the world was fooled into the Iraq war. Granted not everybody believed it¹s declared motives and a few tried to stop it, but in the end we are all paying the price, notwithstanding the Iraqi people. Donald Rumsfeld said at the beginning of the war, "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that." We are now in the fifth year of what I dare term "genocide".
www.Newsdaily.ca
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International News : Meet General David Petraeus
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 08:37 PM PST -
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Meet General David Petraeus
ZNet - A.K. Gupta - September 11, 2007 - His militia strategy plunged Iraq into a civil war, and now he's back for more. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the scholar-warrior tapped by Bush to salvage the U.S. war in Iraq, is settling in for the long war.
Having assumed command of all U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this year, Petraeus warns the war is not "going to be resolved in a year or even two years." In fact, he predicts that the counterinsurgency effort could last "at least nine or 10 years."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?
SectionID=15&ItemID=13744
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International News : Outer Space at Risk: Anti-Satellite and Space Debris Threats
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Posted by : rycroft
on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 09:10 PM PST -
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Outer Space at Risk: Anti-Satellite and Space Debris Threats
Project Ploughshares - Waterloo, Ontario - Anti-satellite weapons and space debris are increasing threats to the security of outer space, concludes Space Security 2007, released today:
- Ongoing anti-satellite programs are increasing international tensions over the security of outer space
- Debris from Chinas recent anti-satellite test has created a serious problem for the routine and safe operations of all nations spacecraft
- It is in all nations self-interest to safeguard use of the space environment, but there is a widening impasse on how to do this
http://www.spacesecurity.org/publications.htm
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International News : Virtual Public Spheres: New Political Culture
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Posted by : rycroft
on Sunday, September 02, 2007 - 12:33 PM PST -
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Virtual Public Spheres: New Political Culture
Sunshine Communications - Alan E. Rycroft - Young Adults and Virtual Public Spheres: Building A New Political Culture - MA Thesis Summary - Abstract - Young adults, facilitated by the Internet, are building a new political culture that is more fluid, decentralized, diverse, and global than cultures of the past, which may move society beyond traditional political oligarchies towards greater participatory democracy, flexible coalitions and networks managing political affairs, and communication and information processes that are more influential than in previous generations.
Young adults are using the multi-faceted, online media platform to inform themselves, discuss public policy, and organize political activity. From texting and email, to chat rooms, discussion boards, blogs, wikis, interactive web sites, and virtual worlds such as Second Life, youth and young adults are building new local, regional, national, and global, virtual public spheres with thriving democratic debate and effective political organization.
Sunshine Communications
Full Thesis: Virtual Public Spheres (PDF)
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International News : Introducing Idealist.org Volunteer Management Resource Center
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Posted by : rycroft
on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 09:06 PM PST -
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Introducing Idealist.org Volunteer Management Resource Center
Action Without Borders - Erin Barnhart - Le français suit - I'm thrilled to announce that the international nonprofit organization I work with, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org, has launched the Volunteer Management Resource Center - www.idealist.org/vmrc - a FREE, comprehensive online source for new tools and existing resources to support volunteer management professionals worldwide in nonprofit, for-profit, and government organizations.
www.idealist.org/vmrc
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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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