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Trial by Indymedia

By Guest Post • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Education, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY JAY KNOTT
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong" – Nietzsche
On 25 June, the Portland Indymedia website published an article entitled 'Rose City Antifa: Statement on Anti-Semites and their Collaborators' [1]. Rose City Antifa is part of the Anti-Racist Action Network.
Since its creation in 1999 during the protests against the World [...]

Hisham Bustani – Thoughts out of Season: Critiquing the European Left

By Guest Post • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

The left across the planet is in dynamic motion, on the upswing in certain regions, spiraling downward in others. In South America, the left seems to be on a steady and potent rising arc. That is likewise evident in some remote regions in Asia like Nepal, where the Maoists succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy democratically [...]

Thinking quote

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is unapproved of not only intellectually but also morally.
Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950), Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942