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JewishAnarchist

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• Einstein's crime
  • JewishAnarchist March 21, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    Also see this Einstein letter from April of 48.

• Ayub Asaliya was on his way to school last Sunday
  • JewishAnarchist March 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Hi Sherri,

    The major problems with the IC video are: (1) it's a misleading story that misinforms viewers; and (2) the solution IC (and the Pentagon) is pushing -- US military intervention -- will make things much worse.

    That doesn't mean that we shouldn't help. There are organizations like War Child and The Voice Project that are doing amazing work in Uganda and surrounding countries that, unlike IC, are transparent with their finances and actually spend the money they raise on the causes they claim to support (IC raised more than $15,000,000 the week the video was released -- only 35% of IC funds get used in Africa -- the rest is used for IC salaries, overhead and marketing material).

  • JewishAnarchist March 19, 2012 at 1:14 am with 3 replies

    Here are some recommended links...

    Kony screening provokes anger in Uganda (aljazeera.com)
    How Invisible Children's Kony 2012 Will Hurt - And How You Can Help - Central Africa (huffingtonpost.com)
    KONY 2012, Invisible Children's Pro-AFRICOM and Museveni Propaganda (blackstarnews.com)
    Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film (telegraph.co.uk)
    Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) (foreignpolicy.com)
    Have Friends That Just Heard of Joseph Kony? (facebook.com)

    All links via ICYMI (where I'm pretty sure that 2nd screen on the bottom of the cover graphic is mondoweiss.net).

• Ron Paul's antiwar position is simpleminded
  • JewishAnarchist January 6, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    This may be the first neo[liberal/conservative] post I have ever seen on this website. To describe the belief that killing innocent people is never justified as "ridiculous" is... well... slightly to the right of John McCain.

    I know the blogosphere is already mocking the weakness of this piece but are any mondoweiss bloggers going to add their 2 cents? If someone links to this piece, a first-time visitor following that link would probably assume this is a right-wing website.

• Ron Paul for Palestinian statehood: 'I believe in self-determination of peoples'
  • JewishAnarchist September 28, 2011 at 4:43 am

    Before you bring up "credibility issues", you should make sure the comment you're posting does not damage your credibility.

    By claiming Paul subscribes the "rand/hayek/friedman school of political economy", you reveal that not only are you not familiar with Paul's views but that you're also not familiar with the views of Rand or Friedman.

    Friedman was a member of the Chicago School (aka "monetarism" which shares its roots with Keynesianism) while Hayek and Paul are members of the Austrian School. If you're truly interested in the major and irreconcilable differences between the Austrian School and the Chicago School, see Milton Friedman Unraveled, written by Paul's mentor, Murray Rothbard (also a Jewish anarchist).

    Adding Rand's cult of Objectivism into that weird conflation of incompatible philosophies makes even less sense.

    If you want to point out the areas where Paul is wrong, there is plenty to point out (not as much as there is to point out with Rand and Friedman but still plenty). I have actually written quite a bit on the subject. But, if you're going to criticize, make sure you understand what you're criticizing. Otherwise, it could lead to "credibility issues". And while I certainly won't be voting for Paul (or anyone for that matter), there is no doubt that he is the only person on the left of the political spectrum running for president (including Obama).

• First lady of Palestinian rap features Dead Prez's official video for 'The Kufiyyeh is Arabic'
  • JewishAnarchist September 5, 2011 at 5:10 am

    Also check out M1 on Lowkey's new track.

• Richard Witty's 10,000th comment
  • JewishAnarchist July 15, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    That's a lot of comments (at least a part-time job's worth).

  • JewishAnarchist July 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm with 3 replies

    Thanks, this ("FDR was a Communist") made me smile. Does your grandfather refer to anyone that does/did the bidding of Wall Street as a "communist" or just FDR?

• America is fed up with the 'old man's commiseration club'
  • JewishAnarchist June 1, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    Keith, I think you're misunderstanding my comment. I made no allusion to how capitalism functions in the real world (I certainly didn't see anything in your previous comment that would lead me to believe this is something on which we disagree). The only part of your comment I was addressing was your conflating capitalism with the free market as if they were the same or even similar.

    For instance, capitalism requires the state to enforce intellectual "property" laws so that corporations can charge a 1000% markup on a product and pay the people who made it pennies. Capitalism also requires the state to monopolize (or grant a monopoly) on the medium of exchange. It's the power to loan money into existence that allows the corporate/political class to access and accumulate a disproportionate share of capital (at an artifically low rate). I could continue listing these aspects of capitalism but I'm sure you get the point. If you have these things, you don't have a free market. Take away these things (and the other state-granted privileges) and you no longer have capitalism.

    All I'm saying is that the terms have totally different meanings and to use them otherwise is to use them exactly as the corporate/political class wants them used.

    And it depends on how you interpret the invisible hand metaphor but I definitely believe in cooperation without coercion. That's not capitalism. Capitalism is the iron fist.

  • JewishAnarchist June 1, 2011 at 2:19 am with 7 replies

    It appears you are conflating state-capitalism with freed-markets. A common mistake but a mistake nonetheless. State-capitalism (what you are calling "market capitalism") and freed markets are mutually exclusive... if you have one, you don't have the other.

• On a NY stage, four strong characters seek out the meaning of Gaza and the Arab spring
  • JewishAnarchist May 20, 2011 at 4:25 pm with 19 replies

    This Einstein letter has probably been posted here before but it's the first time I've seen it.

• How the ‘NYT’ swallowed the Stuxnet worm
  • JewishAnarchist February 24, 2011 at 2:22 am

    This post (Stuxnet Authors Made Several Basic Errors) on Kaspersky Lab’s blog also makes it appear that hiding the worm wasn't a high priority.

• The internet is destroying the idea of the nation
  • JewishAnarchist February 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    It served [the] economic and social purposes of the ruling class and continues to do so. States have never been necessary. The internet just makes it that much more obvious (pdf - must read).

    If you understand that no one is authorized to commit crimes, you are an anarchist. Embrace it.

• 'Wikileaks' cable drop is a giant power move for the left
  • JewishAnarchist December 3, 2010 at 4:34 pm with 1 replies

    Despite the characterizations of Assange as a weirdo and anarchist, he's a leftwinger; and this is a huge power move for the Left.

    Why say that like "anarchist" and "left" are mutually exclusive when it's just the opposite? The only difference is that the non-anarchist has yet to truly understand the state.

• Anti-Defamation League condemns the very ‘anti-Muslim sentiment’ it contributes to
  • JewishAnarchist August 27, 2010 at 3:33 pm with 3 replies

    Anyone see this post?
    The Ground Zero Synagogue - Hassan Nasrallah Outclasses Newt Gingrich.

    I just saw it on In Case You Missed It.

• Wikileaks blows the cover off the war in Afghanistan
  • JewishAnarchist July 26, 2010 at 11:19 am

    The ICYMI RSS Feed is tracking the coverage. Great consolidated source for under-covered news and commentary.

• Israel destroyed the USS Liberty, OK. But what was the motive?
  • JewishAnarchist July 24, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Just use google. For instance, here is a search of mondoweiss for funny comments.

  • JewishAnarchist July 24, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    I'm assuming most have seen it but Dead in the Water is a documentary about the incident available online.

• Did State Department official get his Zionist swill about Lincoln from mytho-historian Michael Oren?
  • JewishAnarchist July 23, 2010 at 11:47 pm with 2 replies

    Ahmadinejad is a nutty, belligerent statist but he's got nothing on Lincoln. Sh!t, Ahmadinejad can't even hold a candle to Bush or Obama. He could only wish to cause as much death and destruction as any of those three. When it comes to using the apparatus of the state to murder and steal, Ahmadinejad is an amateur.

  • JewishAnarchist July 23, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    Are you serious? Are you competing with Oren and Shapiro to see who can achieve the biggest historical fail. You're actually claiming Lincoln, who locked up 10's of thousands of northern citizens just for speaking out against his policies, who shut down hundreds of newspapers for criticizing him, who actually had an opposing member of Congress exiled from the country and who ordered the murder of hundreds of protesters "would not countenance a tight censorship"??? If so, I have to wonder how you define "censorship".

  • JewishAnarchist July 23, 2010 at 2:02 pm with 4 replies

    That's not the only myth. To believe Lincoln was anything other than a tyrant is to believe a myth.

• 'Terrorism' is the primary bulwark through which Zionism defends itself from scrutiny
  • JewishAnarchist June 28, 2010 at 6:34 pm with 4 replies

    In the new (August 2010) issue of The American Conservative: Sinking Ship: The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself.

• Supporting Iraq war was, and apparently still is, a good career move
  • JewishAnarchist June 28, 2010 at 11:06 am

    Greenwald's latest, The Jeffrey Goldberg Media, is somewhat related.

    Saw it on the In Case You Missed It RSS Feed.

• 'Renowned philosopher' says Jews invented democracy (OK, but what about hummus?)
  • JewishAnarchist June 21, 2010 at 5:58 pm with 2 replies

    Is that the same Talmud that in Tractate Kesubos teaches that Jews shall not use human force to establish a Jewish state before the coming of the Messiah from the House of David (Moshiach)? Just wondering.

• Israel's 'self-defense' narrative falls apart
  • JewishAnarchist June 10, 2010 at 2:59 pm with 3 replies

    This Reuters report on the autopsy results claimed...

    ...all but one of the bullets retrieved from the bodies came from 9mm rounds. Of the other round, Ince said: "It was the first time we have seen this kind of material used in firearms. It was just a container including many types of pellets usually used in shotguns. It penetrated the head region in the temple and we found it intact in the brain."

    There is also this interview with former US Marine, Kenneth O'Keefe but, then again, he is a "terrorist".

  • JewishAnarchist June 10, 2010 at 2:13 pm with 7 replies

    Victor Ostrovsky said "Mossad probably had more than one man on board".

  • JewishAnarchist June 10, 2010 at 1:11 pm with 7 replies

    Anyone see Michael Oren on Colbert? I'm not sure he even realized what Colbert did to him. Look at Oren's face when Colbert says Israel should send the Palestinians back to where they came from.

• Obama's refusal to jettison the special relationship is an abrogation of his responsibility
  • JewishAnarchist June 9, 2010 at 11:49 am

    The title of this speech is, "What Obama Doesn't Know." The first draft was 14 hours long, but I have cut that quite a bit.

    You might ask, how can the president of the United States - the most powerful, most well-connected person in history, with all sorts of intelligence agencies - not know something important?

    The answer is that a successful politician is not an expert at economics, foreign policy, military affairs or any of the other areas in which he makes decisions.

    A successful politician is a person who is an expert at winning elections. That's how he gets the job - by winning elections. That is his skill, his career, his area of expertise. Winning elections.

    In other words, to be president, he needs to be highly skilled at illusion. He must be a better actor than his competition.

    ...from Richard Maybury's speech, "What Obama Does Not Know".

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