SubRosa Santa Cruz

                                             Check out their website here.

The Force of Nonviolence

                                     By Judith Butler.

Anti-Imperialist Abolition Feminism

 “In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples.”

Profiles in Compassion: Steve Handen

                                         The conscience of Colorado Springs.

Update on Daniel Hale, Prisoner of Conscience

 

                                                        READ ABOUT IT HERE.

Christian Nationalism

                                 It's not going away any time soon.

Profiles in Courage: Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale

                            The Biden Administration seeks to punish the solitary conscience.

The Entrapment Game

                                                         Revisited.

Persuasion vs. Propaganda

                                             The public sphere is broken.

Palestine, Israel, and Race

                                     

                                                        Peer-reviewed articles.
         

Identity and/or Politics

                                             Identity tethering.

                                                Political tribes.

Empire Politician

                                                                                 

You can count on Joe.           

Anarchist Barcelona!

                                                             See more here.

Free Voice of Labour: The Jewish Anarchists

Ken Loach's Land and Freedom

                                                 You can watch the film here.

R.I.P. Michael Jerryson

                                             Read his obituary here.

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

This should be required reading for Authoritarian Liberals

                                     The short answer is: No.

Highly Correlated Attitudes and Hate Crimes

                                                     Read more here.

Will Wonders Never Cease?

                                 Lawyers with a conscience: The NLG on Palestine.

Braidotti

                             "What is necessary is a radical transformation..."

The Authoritarian-Liberal Consensus

 "Progress" defined as a Rainbow-Coalition of killers and torturers in service of the Empire.

Tolstoy on Religion and Non-Violence

                                             On M. K. Gandhi site.

Zizek

 Can't say I'm a big fan, but nobody's wrong all the time...

The Commodified Self

                                     As true today as it was in 2003.

Critical Race Theory

                                     Sticks and stones may break my bones, but theory?

Empire of Dune: Indigeneity, U.S. Power and a Science Fiction Classic — ...

No Time | The Late Mark Fisher | Virtual Futures 2011

Neglected Ninth Amendment Rights

 

No human being is obligated to participate in the dehumanization of any other human being. Every human being has the right to refuse to kill or injure any other human being. Those who conscientiously object to war in any form exercise those rights. 

 

The exercise of those rights ought to come as natural to all of us as breathing--but, tragically, they do not. 

 

Conscientious Objectors set an example for their fellows: showing them how a free human being behaves. Those who lack the courage to step out in full human freedom may not say it, but they envy the Conscientious Objector's courage to be free. 

 

It is fear and servile conformity that prompts one human being to dehumanize another on behalf of the nation-state. Those who refuse to do so are true heroes. 

 

Do not hymn "the rocket's red glare/the bombs bursting in air" on July 4th or any other day. Instead salute those who have the courage to exercise the neglected Ninth Amendment rights to refuse to dehumanize and kill. 

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

                                             Check it out here.

Donald Rumsfeld Obituary: Rot in Hell

                                             Ben Burgis does the honors.

Summer 2021 issue of Dissent

 

The Summer 2021 issue of Dissent is coming out with an introduction that reads in part:

"The American political infotainment machine has turned the ethics of conviction into a source of profits. It’s Patreon politics, a trick that allows you to pretend that signaling membership in a group counts as real political work. The question is whether you think a system of commodified tribalization leaves us better off—and if not, what you can do to push against it." 

That's the right question to ask, but Dissent should have posed it at least three decades ago.

But perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. After all, as Kierkegaard sagely observed, life is lived forwards and only understood backwards.

So: Shall we continue to live forward in a system of commodified tribalization or shall we opt out in favor of other possibilities? And if the latter, what possibilities present themselves to us now? 

Think about it.