Are We Winning the Battle on the Web? Or Are We Just Letting Off eSteam? Are We Winning the Battle on the Web? Or Are We Just Letting Off eSteam? The commonly-accepted wisdom of bloggers (such as me) is that we are slowly but surely winning the battle to spread the truth. After all, the web has now become the most popular source for news. And the alternative media has sometimes pounded on stories so hard that the corporate news was forced to cover them, and the politicians and business elites were forced to scramble to explain away their actions. But a comment on my website tonight posted by dogismyth summarized something I've been thinking about for the past week: This is why there is still unlimited, unfettered access to freedom of speech on the internet. I hope he's wrong, and that we are really winning - even if slowly - the infowars. But remember that the internet was created by the military (it was originally called Arpanet - "Arpa" standing for "Advanced Research Projects Agency"). So we are using the web to spread the truth.
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American Leftist Thursday, July 30, 2009 God in Me Reverend Ike, dead at 74. UPDATE: Branded a Heretic: Reverend Ike reflects upon his popularization of the Prosperity Gospel in the African American community. Labels: African Americans, American Culture, Obituaries, Religion, YouTube Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The Sub-Proletarianization of America: An Overview I was perusing the articles posted over at Counterpunch, and came across one written by a kindred spirit, Carl Ginsberg: "Crisis” is in the eye of the beholder. I started posting about what I considered to be the essential socioeconomic characteristics of the bursting of the housing bubble in July 2007. In short, as described by Ginsberg, I anticipated that corporate interests would seek to recover their lost, outsized profitability by a permanent transformation of the economy, a transformation centered around increased subsidy while workers paid the price through shortened work hours, increased taxes and unemployment. Monday, July 27, 2009 Reckless Mr.
Death threats on Twitter to health care reform advocate By GottaLaff My pal Karoli has been a dynamo in the Blogosphere and in the Twitterverse when it comes to communicating about health care reform, as I posted here. She and others have put together some excellent comprehensive debunkitude and truth-telling. However, there are some persistent and very nasty wingnuts on the right who have been spreading lies about the health care plans that are being put forward. Now Fleckman is posturing like nobody's business. There’s a very liberal blogger out there who goes by the name Karoli. This is apparently in response to blog posts by Karoli, one revealing that he is the author of a whole lot of wingie nonsense. However, now this back-and-forth has taken on a life of its own on Twitter. To quote Karoli in a Tweet to me: Post it. Karoli Tweets: My friends, I think I have riled up the nutbags. She is referring to this, a cowardly little Tweet from a Friend of Fleckman's: And from Fleckman, himself: See what a little incitement can do among friends?
The Rude Pundit Time to Join the Fight Against the Right-Wing Townhall Uprisings?:Is this really the way you guys wanna play this? Is this the way it's gonna go down? (By the way, a note to Michelle Malkin: the action of loudmouths trying to shut up everyone else ain't a counterinsurgency. Can you imagine the cries of "quel horreur" and the fainting gestures of the Fox "news" hosts with dainty constitutions if liberals had coordinated the disruption of meetings of members of Congress in order to oppose a policy of the Bush administration? So the Rude Pundit's of two minds about this strain of reactionary civil disobedience. That's the part that says it's time to stop acting like pussies in all of this. So there's the part of the Rude Pundit's mind that says it's time to show these motherfuckers how it's done, to join the fucking fight. Tell you what: the Rude Pundit's gonna put up or shut up. Let's open this up. Update: Apparently, organization, politeness, and a heavy police presence can also work.
Obama Sends a Signal to the Few Remaining Suckers Who Believe in the Rule of Law :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall'Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq :: [ - it - 56629] For anyone still harboring a few scraps of vestigial hope that the change of administration effected by the 2008 election would restore even a thin, weak, straggly lineament thin of the rule of law in the United States, the recent opinion piece by Barack Obama's hand-picked CIA chief, the doleful Establishment water-toter Leon Panetta, will tell you all you need to know. In the friendly confines of the authoritarian newsletter known as the Washington Post -- Panetta, the weak reed appointed precisely because of his weakness and reedness by Obama, who then surrounded the little puppet with some of the most complicit torture mavens of the Bush Regime to really run the CIA show -- delivered himself of one of the most cringe-worthy performances by a high public official since the ritual abasements of Stalin's 1930s show trials. In the piece, Panetta followed the Dick Cheney party line that the Obama Administration has adopted whole cloth. Look, it's very simple.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Tweet Release: Timeline of @LiberateLaura As exuberance following the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea rules the trending topics on Twitter, I asked Richard Horgan for a statement on his e-activism through @LiberateLaura and the WordPress blog. He describes a chain of events that truly reached Twitter's sixth degree of separation, and if I knew how to make a Huffington Post jump quote this would be it: "Biz Stone and Evan Williams' brilliantly simple communication tool is without a doubt the most powerful activism tool to ever hit the Internet." Richard Horgan Here's the timeline, in his own words: "It started innocently enough: I recommended - via Twitter - @LauraLing's NARCO WARS @current report to L.A. Update: @Current TV Co-founders Joel Hyatt and Al Gore have released this welcome home Statement, and Gore welcomed the two journalists and President Bill Clinton home.
The Primitivist Critique of Civilization--Richard Heinberg The Primitivist Critique of Civilization Richard Heinberg A paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, June 15, 1995. I. Prologue Having been chosen--whether as devil's advocate or sacrificial lamb, I am not sure--to lead off this discussion on the question, "Was Civilization a Mistake?" From the viewpoint of any non-civilized person, this consideration would appear to be steeped in irony. Nevertheless, despite the possibility that at least some of our remarks may be ironic, disturbing, and pointless, here we are. The first has to do with certain deeply disturbing trends in the modern world. Now, it can be argued that civilization per se is not at fault, that the problems we face have to do with unique economic and historical circumstances. Many primal peoples tend to view us as pitiful creatures, too--though powerful and dangerous because of our technology and sheer numbers.