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Of course Hillary Clinton "is against people fighting bigots collectively. She knows that if they carry on, it's only a matter of time before the protests start showing up at her venues. In other news, it would be good if the protests started showing up at her venues as well. There are few things she and Trump disagree with, but on those things she manages to be the more reactionary one. And being more reactionary than Trump is actually not easy. You'd have to be the sort of person who isn't embarrassed to have campaigned for Goldwater to manage that." —  Elise Hendrick
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Neil Faulkner’s new book, Lawrence of Arabia’s War: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East will be published on 21 April by Yale University Press.
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Is the World Living or Dead? "[T]ere's considerable evidence that human social behaviors, even in the most specialized and highly technologically mediated societies, have not really evolved much in sophistication and may even be said to have regressed in some ways, compared with the prior understandings of peoples living at a much lower level of specialization and technological intervention. For we have accepted monstrous imbalances of power and seem to have lost the determinative notion of reciprocity that gave some earlier forms of social organization their stability. And sadly, it is science, aiding and aided by capital, which has actually been key in dismantling the idea of social and environmental reciprocity and instead justifying a profoundly anti-social and anti-ecological set of behaviors."
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The very same media that participated in the counter-revolution and supported the reactionary forces from day one: they chose the name ("Arab Spring"), they beat the drums of "democractic elections" and shouted "transitional justice", they supported the powerful and the more financed who was able to perpetuate the status quo, but offering some concessions such as some liberties and clownish parliament, they have re-defined the slogans raised by those who rose up on 10 December 2011... The terrorism of today is the creation of your Terrorism of yesterday: the invasion of Iraq, and in the case of Tunisia it is the destruction of Libya, and it goes back decades ago when imperialist economic policies (through the IMF, the World Bank, and other institutions), support of dictatoship, uneven development, made all type of diseases possible. Terrorism in Tunisia
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