Source: How Dangerous is Climate Change?, How Much Time Do We Have?
December 6, 2015
December 3, 2015
November 25, 2015
November 22, 2015
One more time on comments made from a proxy server
For the person that keeps trying to do this because of some kind of sick obsession with this blog bordering on stalking, don’t waste your time and mine because your stuff gets caught in my spam filter. Here is the comment that you made today that got snagged:
The first thing I do is check the IP address indicated on the comment, in this instance “61.91.34.94”. That address is in Thailand, a country that along with Cambodia is favored for proxy servers:
When I see Thailand or Cambodia, I delete the comment automatically. If you are so obsessed with this blog and want to debate me or any of the people who participate here, you need to post from a non-proxy server. Of course, if you insist on being an asshole, all bets are off.
November 21, 2015
November 17, 2015
In defence of fantasy: a further response to Slavoj Žižek
If migrants are to live peacefully and happily in Europe, the demand should not be that they give up their fantasy of a better life, but that they cling to it for all its worth.
Source: In defence of fantasy: a further response to Slavoj Žižek
November 9, 2015
October 31, 2015
October 20, 2015
Zibechi: New colonialisms and left values
NEW COLONIALISMS and the CRISIS OF LEFT VALUES
Mural by Diego Rivera, at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City.
By: Raúl Zibechi
When visibility is minimal because powerful storms cloud the perception of reality, it may be appropriate to enlarge one’s view, to climb slopes to look for broader observation points, in order to discern the context in which we move. In these times, when the world is crossing through multiple contradictions and interests, it’s urgent to stimulate the senses to gaze far and inside.
Times of confusion in which ethics are shipwrecked, basic points of reference disappear and something is installed like “anything goes,” which permits supporting any cause that goes against the bigger enemy, beyond all consideration of principles and values. Shortcuts lead to dead ends, like equating Putin with Lenin, to use a somewhat fashionable example.
The Russian intervention in Syria is a neocolonial act, which places Russia…
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