Saturday, April 08, 2023

Main Blog Moved to Kersplebedeb.com!

Since March 2013, the main Kersplebedeb website has been migrated to a primarily wordpress format.

What this means in practical terms is that everything you are used to seeing on Sketchy Thoughts is now being posted straight to Kersplebedeb and simply being automatically mirrored here. So in general, you will probably have a better reading/viewing experience if you head over to Kersplebedeb.

For those who prefer the Sketchy Thoughts blogger layout for whatever reason, this page will continue to be automatically updated whenever something is posted to Kersplebedeb, for at least the short-term future. However, as additional functionality is added to the Kersplebedeb site via wordpress, the Sketchy Thoughts page will probably begin to show its age more and more.



Sunday, March 03, 2019

Jewish-Indigenous inmate alleges prison guard ‘brutality’ in new lawsuit



In his unproven statement of claim, Timothy (Mitch) Nome, 44, who is serving an indeterminate sentence for punching a guard in 2005, makes several allegations against correctional officers he says warrant compensation of more than $1.4 million — half in punitive damages.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Jewish-Indigenous inmate alleges prison guard ‘brutality’ in new lawsuit



Saturday, February 23, 2019

Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century



The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century



Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Empire of the periphery



Boris Kagarlitsky is one of Russia’s best known Marxist dissidents and who has written widely on a range of issues. His latest offering is one of his best. It is a history of Russia (and the Soviet Union) that situates it firmly in a wider European and world framework.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Empire of the periphery



Monday, December 31, 2018

Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time



Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time



Thursday, December 27, 2018

Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas



It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in the frontier Colombian town of Quibdó for service in the republican army.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas



Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Flip Over Police Vans and Riot in This New Board Game for Anarchists



The first time you loot a shopping center in Bloc by Bloc—"The Insurrection Game"—you'll leave the streets covered in mutinous graffiti. The second time through, you'll set the buildings ablaze and salt the earth.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Flip Over Police Vans and Riot in This New Board Game for Anarchists



Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time



Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Former Black Panther, in prison for 47 years, denied release for the ninth time



Monday, December 17, 2018

Dans les manifs de gilets jaunes, la guerre souterraine entre « antifas » et « fachos »



C’est une opposition souterraine, avec ses codes, ses points de rendez-vous et ses batailles.

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Sunday, December 16, 2018

Macron and French racism as social relationship



References to “secularism”, “national identity” or “immigration” by Macron are not a mere “diversion” to from the supposed “real problems” put on the table by the #giletsjaunes movement.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Macron and French racism as social relationship



Sunday, December 09, 2018

Anti-Anti-Antifa



Today’s fascists aren’t like yesterday’s fascists. Today’s antifascists aren’t like yesterday’s antifascists. What will tomorrow bring? 2017 was the year the “alt-right” entered the mainstream.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Anti-Anti-Antifa



Friday, December 07, 2018

#ThotAudit Is Compiling Massive Databases of Sex Workers and Reporting Them to PayPal



Misogynists are compiling massive databases of sex workers in and effort to threaten, harm, and harass them for making a living. People participating in the viral harassment campaign known as #ThotAudit seek to make it more difficult for those in the sex trade to work.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at #ThotAudit Is Compiling Massive Databases of Sex Workers and Reporting Them to PayPal



Friday, November 09, 2018

Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York



An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York



Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election



Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election



Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture



On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture



Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics



When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics