Ukraine certainly doesn’t have anything to do with the security of U.S. citizens. From Aaron Maté at mate.substack.com: If Biden can interrupt NATO expansion and war profiteering, the US-Russia standoff over Ukraine can be resolved.
New US “lethal aid” for Ukraine, courtesy of US taxpayers and their weapons industry beneficiaries. (U.S. Embassy in Ukraine) The […]
The Ukraine crisis, sponsored by US hegemony and war profiteers, by Aaron Maté — STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
. Voltairine de Cleyre: an organic radical inspiration
by Issue 70 of The Acorn. Dec 2021 winteroak.org.uk…thehacorn-70
The latest in our series of profiles from the orgrad website.
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was a free-thinking poet and feminist who sought to express and develop what has been described as “an innate and organic American anarchism”. (1)
She defined anarchism as “freedom to the soul as to the body, – in every aspiration, every growth” (2) and argued that human beings had a “natural tendency to break all the bonds which seek to control thought”. (3)
This tendency manifested itself as the spirit of freedom, a collective energy which surged forth in individuals.
De Cleyre wrote in her essay ‘In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation’:
She therefore had little time for the materialist dogma propagated by much of the left, which regarded any talk of spirit as absurd and “mystical”.
She declared in ‘The Dominant Idea’: “It is thus that the so-called Materialist Conception of History, the modern Socialists, and a positive majority of Anarchists would have us look upon the world of ideas – shifting, unreal reflections, having naught to do in the determination of man’s life, but so many mirror appearances of certain material relations, wholly powerless to act upon the course of material things.
This insight even led de Cleyre to defend the philosophical outlook of the Middle Ages. She asked: “Must we, because the Middle Age was dark and blind and brutal, throw away the one good thing it wrought into the fibre of Man, that the inside of a human being was worth more than the outside? that to conceive a higher thing than oneself and live toward that is the only way of living worthily?” (6)
The medieval sense of ethics and inner value had been rejected by the modern industrial age “and so the cancer goes on rotting away the moral fibre, and the man becomes a lump, a squash, a piece of slippery slime taking all shapes and losing all shapes, according to what particular hole or corner he wishes to glide into – a disgusting embodiment of the moral bankruptcy begotten by Thing-Worship”. (7)
De Cleyre shared Gustav Landauer’s equation of anarchy with life itself and explained that this was why the revolutionary struggle would never end: “It will go on because Life cries to live, and Property denies its freedom to live; and Life will not submit. And should not submit”. (8)
This revolutionary life force, the spirit of revolt, could only become real and active when it found expression in the words and deeds of individuals, she stressed.
“Individuality is a thing that cannot be killed. Quietly it may be, but just as certainly, silently, perhaps, as the growth of a blade of grass, it offers its perpetual and unconquerable protest against the dictates of Authority”. (9)
She said the malign Dominant Idea stifling the human spirit could only be challenged if individuals had the courage and determination to resist its power and were able to source, and remain true to, a sense of justice that came from within themselves.
If they could do that, they could end their days in the knowledge that they had done what had to be done, she said: “At the end of life you may close your eyes, stating:
Video link: Voltairine de Cleyre “Anarchism” – Future Bass Mix
1. Barry Pateman, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, ed. by A.J. Brigati (Oakland/Edinburgh, AK Press, 2004), p. i.
2. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘Anarchism’, Selected Works, Project Gutenberg.
3. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘The Drama of the Nineteenth Century’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 133.
4. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 7.
5. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘The Dominant Idea’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 36.
6. De Cleyre, ‘The Dominant Idea’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 42.
7. De Cleyre, ‘The Dominant Idea’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 43.
8. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘Direct Action’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 61.
9. Voltairine de Cleyre, ‘The Economic Tendency of Freethought’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 63.
10. De Cleyre, ‘The Dominant Idea’, The Voltairine de Cleyre reader, p. 45.
The Acorn No 71 is due out at end of January 2022. winteroak.org.uk
July 10 2021. We publish a new e-book by Paul Cudenec, Fascism
Rebranded: Exposing the Great Reset. This features not only the widely-shared Klaus Schwab and his Great Fascist Reset but also a number of articles explaining in some detail why “fascist” is an appropriate label to apply to what is happening, despite all the protestations to the contrary.
The pdf is available free here.
Posted by Lou on January 24, 2022 Posted in: Uncategorized. Leave a comment by: Ethan Huff
As the narrative surrounding Covid-19 continues to break down, here are five things you need to know (as explained by Steve Kirsch):
It made sense to some people to just go along with it when it was just one or two doses. But now that governments want people to take a third or even a fourth injection for the Fauci Flu, many are saying enough is enough.
Both EEU regulators and officials at WHO now admit that booster shots do not make sense, which is why they are advising the public against taking them. There is no evidence to support a booster shot program and everybody knows it.
They have been trying to hide this fact from the public, but the data clearly shows that the more shots people get, the more likely they are to develop symptoms associated with “covid.”
The unvaccinated, meanwhile, are healthier, on average, compared to their “fully vaccinated” counterparts.
On top of not working as claimed, covid injections are also unsafe. Many formerly pro-vaccine doctors and other health experts are speaking out against the shots, warning that they do not work.
“This is great news,” Kirsch writes. “Nobody is going public yet, but they are all [upset] and realize they have been misled. It will not be pretty. This is of course great news.”
It took a long time to get to this point, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has finally admitted that cloth masks are useless at preventing the spread of covid or any other disease.
Corrupt CDC head Rochelle Walensky had no way out of fessing up to this truth after data was published showing that face veils are more of a religious rite than a viable medical intervention.
“The other mask types don’t work either, but it will take them longer to figure out the obvious,” Kirsh says.
“P100 respirators do work but only a small percentage of people know that. I can’t wait to see Rochelle Walensky wear a P100 respirator; after all, she should be modelling best practices.”
Even though Tony Fauci claims otherwise, there is zero evidence to suggest that covid injections are safe or effective for young people.
In fact, many doctors and other health experts are warning against parents getting their children “boosted,” despite the fact that colleges and universities all across the country are demanding them of students who wish to return to campus.
“Someone is very wrong here and for once it isn’t the WHO,” Kirsh says.
A few other things Kirsch says people should know is that remdesivir is dangerous and ineffective. It has become standard procedure to administer this drug to covid patients at hospitals across America, but only because Fauci makes money every time remdesivir is injected into a patient’s body.
Also, social distancing is a farce. MIT came out with a study back in April which found that avoiding other people and treating them like the walking plague does nothing to stop the spread of disease.
“6 feet or 60 feet made no difference,” Kirsch writes. “People still haven’t figured this out.”
One of Kirsch’s subscribers pointed out that it was obvious from the beginning that all of this was nonsense. But better late than never, right?
The latest news can be found at Pandemic.news.
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«The gold miners pour more poison mercury on the earth than the weight of the gold they take away. They are like living dead, covered in golden mud.»
–cacique Raoni Metuktire
Gold mining and the indiscriminate use of mercury to ferret out gold are turning swaths of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems into a nightmarish moonscape!
As much as 75% of the gold extracted each year is used for jewelry, watches and other vain and futile status symbols sold byCartierand other corporations in the luxury industry as well as discount retailers worldwide.
Tens of thousands of rainforest trees must be uprooted, hundreds of tons of soil mined and mixed with dozens of tons of toxic environmental pollutants that contaminate indigenous lands for that one special gold ring…
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Posted on January 25, 2022 by ELCOMUNISTA.NET in ECOLOGY, Environment
Its objective is to sequence the entire genome of living beings on Earth, to obtain the most complete genetic atlas.
The initiative, made up of more than 5,000 scientists, has just passed the testing phase and begins large-scale work.
It is called the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) and it is made up of more than 5,000 scientists from around the world, united with a common goal: to sequence the genome of all forms of life on Earth to obtain the most complete ‘genetic atlas’ of the biodiversity of the planet.
The initiative, which has just successfully passed the testing phase and is now beginning large-scale work, aims to sequence the genome of the almost two million species of plants, animals and fungi that have been described on Earth and of those that so far only 0.5% have been sequenced.
Continue reading “Earth BioGenome Project, the ambitious project to reconstruct the tree of life, takes flight / Eng-Esp”Boris needs something huge to divert attention from his own rank hypocrisy. Ukraine doesn’t really fit the bill. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.org:
Boris Johnson attempting to start a war with Russia partly over an illicit birthday party is a descent into deplorable and gutless slapstick.
The old dictum is truer than ever that stoking conflict in some distant land is an effective distraction from domestic political woes. But in the case of British prime-minister Boris Johnson, the ruse descends into farce.
Johnson is counting the days until his Conservative party finally gets rid of this train-wreck of a leader. Lies, incompetence and scandals ooze from Downing Street under his watch. Even Britain’s Tory press has given up on its loyalty to Johnson who is now seen as an irredeemable election liability for Conservatives.
That’s why Johnson’s “warning” to Russia this week of “severe consequences” if it invades Ukraine…
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