Sunday, November 10, 2013

they're systemically reducing the supply. it's evil.....
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19725-laura-gottesdiener-on-housing-and-fighting-back-against-dreams-delayed

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19770-can-unarmed-peacekeeping-work-in-syria-it-has-in-south-sudan

this narrative is built on a comparison of the nsa leaks to the forces that disintegrated the soviet union, drawing an unstated comparison to afghanistan. it's not the best comparison. by it's nature as a centralized system, communism required the mass of people to at least go along with it. capitalism, on the other hand, relies on apathy to maintain itself.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19614-governing-in-the-dark

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19779-one-million-k-12-students-are-homeless
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19759-wikileaks-mediastan-the-true-fifth-estate-bringing-the-first-amendment-to-the-world

http://www.cnas.org/jacob-stokes-discusses-maliki-visit

ugh. and no. canada doesn't have an organized left.
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/bye-bye-ford-and-harper-would-their-departure-have-any-benefit-canadas-left

i think the bigger question is whether the middle east has awoken to the americans' byzantine strategy in the area. between turkey looking towards china, israel going insular, egypt being disciplined and the saudis flipping out, one has to wonder if the long term effects of obama's reaching out to iran isn't the collapse of american influence in the region.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/01/the_us_saudi_royal_rumble

see, i think if you look at the greater context, the larger fear is that iran is falling under chinese hegemony - and if that happens with any level of seriousness then the entire containment/sanctions/regime-change strategy is dead.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/04/the-dna-of-iranians-and-under-secretary-sherman/

hrmmmn. my predictions about the rest of the world rejecting us banks as a result of the iranian oil embargo have so far not been realized. yet, it's maybe too soon to retract.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/01/is_china_about_to_crack_down_on_jp_morgan_too

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bevis-longstreth/the-financial-case-for-di_b_4203910.html
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/jesse/2013/11/austerity-and-politics-ford-scandal
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/01/is_libya_beyond_repair
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/11/4/tuesday_director_oliver_stone_on_the
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/11/canada-quietly-ratifies-controversial-international-investm
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/04/killing-peace-2/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/04/kerr-n04.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/04/syri-n04.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/05/egyp-n05.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/clemency-for-torturers-but-not-for-edward-snowden/281142/

this is nazi shit.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18292-post-9-11-cia-and-pentagon-forced-doctors-to-become-torturers-study-charges

the australians are pushing back, though.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/05/pers-n05.html

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/5/oliver_stone_on_50th_anniversary_of
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19825-noam-chomsky-de-americanizing-the-world
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/05/a-short-history-of-populism-in-america/

at the very least, it suggests that turkey is interested in maintaining it's independence from nato. and perhaps the collapse of a russian threat gives it a little more confidence.
http://www.cnas.org/richard-weitz-discusses-motivation-for-turkish-missile-purchase

wow. what a bunch of government propaganda...
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2013/11/04/feeling-heat-ring-fire/

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/comfront/2013/11/honduras-trade-and-investment-expense-human-rights#.UnlClfkSK_I.twitter

well, they have to adjust, as the emperors are fiddling.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/socialism-in-one-village/

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/04/this_is_not_a_court_this_is_a_coup_chaos_mohamed_morsy_trial
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2013/04/26/when-media-uncritically-cover-pseudoscience/#.UnlZKb8W1RQ

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19841-a-field-guide-to-losing-friends-influencing-no-one-and-alienating-the-middle-east
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/05/cia_pentagon_drone_war_control
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kgrandia/2013/11/christy-clark-and-allison-redford-choose-short-term-politics-over-fu

why doesn't anybody realize that iran is in the process of joining the sco?
http://fpif.org/strange-bedfellows-israel-arabs-united-opposition-iran/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/08/turkey-china-defence-idUSL5N0IT1XY20131108
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-09-13/news/42041650_1_shanghai-cooperation-organisation-india-today-khurshid

http://www.cnas.org/daniel-lakin-escaping-false-choices-in-the-middle-east
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/06/exem-n06.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/the-workforce-is-even-more-divided-by-race-than-you-think/281175/

i dunno. maybe obama can find the answer by repeating more reagan quotes.
http://atfp.co/1bcsqcE

http://fpif.org/u-s-official-propagates-myths-iran-nuclear-energy/

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18298-median-wage-falls-to-lowest-level-since-2008-as-incomes-at-the-top-soar

great news. it's only through high unemployment that people will ever come together to start doing some real work for themselves and for society.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/07/euro-n07.html

i highly doubt that the market has learned much from the dot com boom. i say buy in bulk - and sell quickly.
http://theatln.tc/16Jzsar

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19842-obama-must-be-called-out-not-coddled-on-keystone-xl-bait-and-switch
http://www.mediacoop.ca/video/montr%C3%A9al-26-octobre-2013-%E2%80%93-chomskymtl-askchomsky-e/19617
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/obamas-inversion-of-organizational-mission/
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/11/07/uranium-investors-eye-nafta-challenge-in-quebec/
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/11/08/justin_trudeau_tom_mulcair_battle_for_downtown_toronto_tim_harper.html

http://www.socialist.ca/node/1976
http://atfp.co/1bg2KvB

the thing is that the government lacked legitimacy because the elections were boycotted by everybody except the islamists in the first place. (and don't forget that morsi's crime was leaning towards co-operation with iran.)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/08/putting-egypts-coup-on-trial/

http://libcom.org/blog/police-evict-journalists-tv-studio-following-5-month-occupation-08112013

i've often made a show of zooming by gridlocked cars, yelling and screaming, making hand signals - demonstrating how much faster i'm moving than they are.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/11/simplest-way-get-people-biking/7516/

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10986
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19895-bam-bam-bam-the-lostness-of-man
http://libcom.org/history/why-blackadder-goes-forth%E2%80%99-could-have-been-lot-funnier

this is very hard to take at face value.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/10/how-france-scuttled-the-iran-deal-last-minute

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/08/the_nuclear_handshake_saudi_arabia_pakistan