STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: Organizing and Fighting Back
Larry Pinkney
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” -Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
“We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.”
- From Point #5 of the Ten-Point Platform & Program of the Black Panther Party (October, 1966)
It is October of the year 2010, and there is something earth-shaking taking place, with and among, many college / university students throughout this nation. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), whose organizational roots and history run deep, are once again on the move. Don’t expect to be intelligently informed about this by the corporate-stream media. But pay close attention to what these courageous students are in the process of doing today.
PermalinkTIME FOR A NEW THEORY OF MONEY
Ellen Brown
By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities.
The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception not just of the roles of banking and credit but of the nature of money itself. In our economic adolescence, we have regarded money as a “thing”—something independent of the relationship it facilitates. But today there is no gold or silver backing our money. Instead, it’s created by banks when they make loans (that includes Federal Reserve Notes or dollar bills, which are created by the Federal Reserve, a privately-owned banking corporation, and lent into the economy). Virtually all money today originates as credit, or debt, which is simply a legal agreement to pay in the future.
Is talk of secession sedition? Arundhati Roy responds to charges
By Rady Ananda
In a speech last week supporting ‘azadi' -- or freedom -- for the occupied people of Kashmir, Arundhati Roy won the ire of right wing extremists who started a petition to have her arrested on charges of sedition. Even moderates are shocked by her support of secession. I sit on an Indian listserve, and some of the comments against her were vicious, with most people supporting prison for this freedom-loving, earth-loving, prolific writer and activist.
Sedition is being openly discussed in several states in the US. Bill Kaufman's new book, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire addresses the topic head on (Chelsea Green, 2010).
Dog Spelled Backwards is God: A Psychohistory Analysis of Death and Dying
By Katherine Smith, PhD
Did you ever wonder why our pets are so happy and we are so sad?
Here is a picture of them worshipping me.
I think it’s a God thing.
After all, when you get right down to it, there isn’t much difference between the environment we live in and the one we create for our pets. [1]
The only reason we think we are civilized and they are savages, out of the wild, is because we use toilet paper and don’t (can’t) lick our genitals in public.
We are fed, entertained and housed, not by God, but by The Powers That Be (a non-conspiracy term for Satan) [2]
They (our pets) are fed, entertained and housed by us, their God.
Here is a picture of them waiting for me to entertain them.
Our pets are sort of like Monotheists, helpless and vulnerable and we are their saviors. [3]
Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights
by Stephen Lendman
Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" deconstructed what framers, in fact, created, men he equated with a Wall Street crowd, given their economic status and prominence as bankers, merchants, lawyers, politicians, judges, and overall wheeler-dealers. In 1787, they convened for their own interests, not the general welfare as most people believe.
As a result, they produced no "masterpiece of political architecture (falling far short of) one great apotheosis (bathed) in quasi-religious light," as Lundberg masterfully explained. His book, if not the Constitution, is an epic work, must reading about America's most important document, the Bill of Rights added belatedly in the first 10 Amendments, again not for reasons commonly believed.
The Revolving Villains - Obama and the Democrats Will Eliminate Social Security Part III
By Jonathryn posted by Michael Collins
That Was a Yes or No Question, Mr. President.
This is part II of a multipart series to demonstrate how everyone in Washington—and one-term President Barack Obama in particular—are telegraphing the fact that they will be gearing up for a major campaign to steal money from Senior Citizens by making drastic changes to “fix” the Social Security program. Part I can be read here. Part II can be read here. (Image)
Today at the top of Atrios’ (Duncan Black’s) website, he writes the question he asked about at a recent blogger conference with one-term President Barak Obama:
Q: Mine is an easy question. Will you rule out raising the retirement age to 70?
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