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  • The War on Iraq  By : JP
    On September 11th 2001, the entire world - not least of all the US - became aware of a great evil: an evil that undermined our very pretence to the right to live in a state of peace, our right to feel secure and our right to feel free. The cities of New York and Washington, and the state of Pennsylvania, were the sites of horrendous crimes committed against our common humanity.
  • Sexual Amorality  By : Tabula Rasa
    Over the years I have seen and read many things pertaining to the morality or immorality of sexual practices, and all seem to lack, beyond simple rhetorical mechanisms, an ability to convince. This suggests there is something fundamentally wrong with using morality and sexuality in the same sentence.

    Perhaps we should take things right back to the beginning and build from there..?
  • A Productive Urban Prescription  By : Magius
    “Let me tell you why you are here. You have come because you know something. What you know you can’t explain but you feel it. You’ve felt it your whole life, felt that something is wrong with the world…it is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?” Morpheus. (Larry and Andy Wachowski, 2000) Everyone can identify with this feeling represented in the quote at least once in their lives.
  • A Little History of Ill-Treatment Towards Women  By : Danny Chunger
    Throughout history, starting from Judeo Christian until present modern day, women was treated and thought as she is a property that has no human rights whatsoever, but only treated as if she is here to exist only to satisfied men’s desire and procreate. In the Judeo Christian text, the book of Judges speaks for itself. There is a story of a concubine that was handed over ,by his husband to a mob, only to be raped, beaten, tortured, and die at the end in the hands of his husband’s doings.# The be
  • Another Woman's Voice for Equality  By : Danny Chunger
    The Torah, the sacred text for Judeo religion, and where laws are written mainly for justice for the people, have been receiving many complaints against the interpreters, the rabbis, because they refuse to make any changes on the established law and withholding rights among women. While, the Quaran, the sacred text of the Islamic tradition, have conceded all rights to women that were available earlier only to men. Now, women in the Islamic realm are given the right to divorce their husband even
  • The Murder of God and the reformation of the State  By : omar
    It is a critique of socialism/communism which I believe are a modern form of medieval mysticism, what Voegelin would call "gnosticism" and tries to connects the deed of murdering God with the Communist Revolution.
  • Non-Violent Revolution, is it possible?  By : Mark Griffiths
    The following text is based on mainly on the ideological political thoughts of Marx and Gandhi. What is claimed here is by no way new, however it is felt that these kind of ideas are losing popular ground to a more violent approach and hence need to be said again. This article aims to discuss how a socialist state could be brought about without the need for a violent revolution and what an alternative could be.
  • The Concepts of Alienation and Surplus Value, A Brief Look  By : Mathew Toll
    The concepts of alienation and surplus-value are central to Marx’s criticisms of capitalism. The current mode of production, that developed and is developing by expansion of the commodity exchange system. The relation of individuals to the means of production and therefore the production of commodities is indispensable to Marx’s notion of alienation and surplus-value.
  • European Cultural Hegemony and Australian Aboriginals  By : Mathew Toll
    The relationship between the indigenous people of Australia and their native lands are essential to their traditional culture. The colonization of their nations by Europeans has lead to a destruction of this relationship and therefore of indigenous cultural practices and norms. This process was predicated upon European cultural norms and established a cultural hegemony of European culture over indigenous culture.
  • Baudrillard and Hyperreality  By : Robert Kent
    Baudrillard’ss most famous contribution to philosophy is his theory of hyperreality. In this essay I shall first explain this theory and then describe how it is relevant to the news media of late capitalist society.
  • When Legend Becomes Fact: John Wayne and the American Identity  By : Dan Muszynski
    Marion Morrison’s representation of the American experience in Wayne shaped our perceptions. Wayne represents the ideal of masculinity, self-sufficiency, strength, justice, and liberty; and we act in accordance with that shared knowledge. In order to understand the significance of John Wayne, and the discourse which is informed by him, we should investigate how Wayne was constituted of Morrison’s experiences through his life, and also how the Wayne persona acts upon our discourse.
  • Arab money in the US and a vibrant 5th column  By :
    Back in the 1930s various socialist and Marxist groups decided that orthodox-Western civilization could only be destroyed from within. Gramsci, the Frankfurt school, Derrida and the post-modernists along with others observed that a flanking movement which took over the media, the political elite and the university system, was the only feasible plan to achieve Marxist domination of the Western nation state. We can see the results of their insight today. A vibrant 5th column of socialistic thought
  • How we can understand, what takes place in economy?  By : Alex Sam
    The economists use special economic datas to trace, to forecast and to analyse variations in economy in general and in its separate branches. From different economic datas published by state and other establishments, the economists are interested theme, which one mirror current or future state of economy. These reports are called as economic parameters, because they image state of economy. They can help to the manager to administer the company in changed conditions.
  • The crushing burden of the high tax mommy-state  By :
    Consider the example of Toronto - the economic engine of Canada. The city-state does 2/3 of its business with the USA and supports the growing resource industry in Western Canada with financial expertise and capital. Yet it sits inside a middle-sized country that does not even have internal free trade. In respect of socialist management [and a Constitutional buy-off of regions], Toronto must export $20-25 billion per annum to fund the rest of the country. This does not make economic sense when t
  • A comparison of tax rates in the OECD  By :
    A critical component for the elite of the current nation state is the statist and populist desire to control the resources of production and to manage the distribution of wealth and to a lesser extent consumption. This has meant that in the West we have seen an increase in the practice of private property (income streams) and capital (taxation, regulation, foreign investment controls, regulation and control of key industry sectors, FDI limitations), expropriation by the state.
  • Exceptions abound but in general women are naturally left wing and Marxist  By :
    A feminist-marxist magazine sums up some deep reservations I have about women and their massive impact socially and politically, exemplified by this column from March 2006, “..women…struggle to affirm rights and end all forms of exploitation and oppression…[and the] brutality of imperialism to block any such efforts. From the successes of the Palestinian people...to the refusal of the peoples of Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela and other countries to accept U.S. dictate…women have been
  • Resources for Alternative Energy  By : Arron Avery
    The trend toward homes that are powered by alternative energy sources, ranging from wind turbines and solar collection cells to hydrogen fuel cells and biomass gases, is one that needs to continue into the 21st century and beyond. We have great need of becoming more energy independent, and not having to rely on the supplying of fossil fuels from unstable nations who are often hostile to us and our interests.
  • The New Climate Change Swindle  By : Calvin Leonard
    Climate Change and Global Warming are indeed a huge hot topic in all its controversy and media hype. Many people are up in arms over the possibility of global warming and indeed they want the United States to sign the Kyoto Treaty and pledge to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases.
  • Hawthorne Effect, an examination  By : Jim Owens PMP
    The often quoted “Hawthorne Effect’ (that people become more productive when they know they are being observed) was said to come from research performed by Professor Elton Mayo at Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant. But is this fact, or merely a “legend” as some suggest?
  • The $100 Billion Globaloney-Warming money grab  By :
    So how much money was invested by governments during the 1970s to scare-monger the population about Global ‘Cooling’? Good question. During the 1970s about $5 billion [in today’s money] was paid by governments in Europe and North America to various government-dependent institutes, to not only study, but broadcast the impending ice age. Now just 30 years later the same cycle repeats, except that the monies involved have increased by a factor of 20 - and this is only the beginning
  • Global warming fantasies and the eco-cult of true believers!  By :
    Hot off the UN presses – we will all die from a natural gas called Co2! Global Warming fantasies that the earth is becoming one giant microwave heated up by man’s pernicious and insatiable industrial development is of course ridiculous. The only consensus that exists on climate change is that if you believe anything the UN or Al Gore says, you are probably a moron and should exile yourself to the nearest forest to tree hugging duty.
  • Low culture and lower intelligence  By :
    Or rather no culture and low civilization. Narcissism. Rudeness. Low standards. No responsibility. The ethos of pop culture is the anti-thesis of civilisational progress. Aided by the media, the educational system, the post-modern political elite, the West has developed 3 generations of perpetual adolescents, smug in ignorance, glorying in irrelevance. Anyone who knows more about the travails Britney Spears than the development of Greco-Romano civilization supports that obvious observation.
  • Natural Law and ‘Conservative’ thought  By :
    The definition of what is a ‘conservative’ and what informs conservative thought covers an incredible range of philosophies. Paleo-cons, neo-cons, libertarians, social conservatives, ‘compassionate’ conservatives, orthodox liberals, free-traders, constitutional conservatives, objectivists and many others populate the conservative ideological continuum. Most of these movements are only partially conservative and some are not conservative at all. So what would a real conservative actually look lik
  • Hollywood’s oligopolistic control of low culture  By :
    In a competitive market Hollywood as an industry would fail. Hollywood is an oligopolistic industry that has excessive power and little restraint. In general Hollywood provides bad product, repetitive models, less than exhilarating and uplifting personalities, and a culture that is extremist in its anti-Western, anti-capitalist and anti-Republican posture.
  • The metamorphosis of Socialism to Populist Statism  By :
    As welfare demands, reforms and expectations have grown so too has government’s ability to recast political ideology and terms in its own self interested favour. Especially poignant has been government’s reordering of economic, moral and spatial values in the left vs. right terminology. Government reform of its economic philosophy to become more liberal and egalitarian has also instigated a redefinition of socialism’s attitude towards its own populist configuration.
  • Marx’s Grand-Narrative: The Materialist Conception of History.  By : Mathew Toll
    This paper outlines the materialist conception of history and its relation to other theories of history and social change.
  • Hoofddoek mode / Islamic fashion  By : Milikowski
    Short video about Islamic fashion in Holland.
  • The Locus of Self: Youth Culture and Commodification  By : Mathew Toll
    This Essay presents the argument that Youth Culture, with its emphasis on consumerism is superficially rebellious and politically conservative in the last analysis.
  • The Civilizing Project: Locke’s Liberalism and Power.  By : Mathew Toll
    On classic Liberalism and the justification of Colonialism.
  • Misanthropic Anthropoids and the Dehumanization of Man (Part I of III)  By : Pierce G.
    The first in a series of three, stresses how technology and the media have sytematically caused us to retreat from our concern for others and for the future. It describes the fear-mongoring techniques employed by technological outlets and details how we are lowering the second foot into the grave marked only, "humanity."
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  • Vicious CUNT! Punk- Style and Sub-Cultural Theory  By : Mathew Toll
    This piece presents an elucidation and evaluation of Hebdige’s theory of sub-cultural style. To achieve this aim we have considered Hebdige’s intellectual antecedents to build a coherent picture of his sub-cultural theory. Then to evaluate his claims on the nature of sub-cultural style we ill consider it in relation to the punk sub-culture.
  • The Nation-State, Core and Periphery: A Brief sketch of Imperialism in the 20th century.  By : Mathew Toll
    This article probes the role of Nation-States and Core and Periphery relations within the 20th century. In order to understand how the concept of Imperialism fits into the history of the 20th century.
  • Socializing the cost of Globalization, Imperialism, and Militarism: The case of U.S. National Debt  By : Dr. Mehdi S. Shariati
    The United States national debt is expected to reach $14 trillion by 2013 and rarely there is any mention of it in the mainstream media, by government officials and mainstream economists. In this paper, the U.S. national debt as a socialized cost resulting from globalization (accumulation of a global scale), imperialism, militarism, and social imperialism is discussed and its connection to global class conflict is addressed.
  • Where Are The Dreamers  By : Burk Pendergrass
    Before answers ... dreams. There was a dream, then there was Rosa Parks... then there was John Glenn!
  • Banco Del Sur (Bank of the South): A Potential New Challenge To Hegemonic Global Finance....  By : Dr. Mehdi S. Shariati
    BANK OF THE SOUTH:
    A POTENTIAL NEW CHALLENGE TO HEGEMONIC GLOBAL FINANCE AND
    ITS MONETARY TERRORISM
    National identity, along with political and economic democracy are essential ingredients of a society that is sustainable across time and space. On the other hand, economic dependency, political powerlessness and alienation, along with the absence of democracy, create vulnerabilities.
  • Hillary vs. Obama  By : Burk Pendergrass
    Kathleen Willy, lost files, "that woman, Miss Lewinsky", perjury vs JFK MLK
  • Samurai, Chōnin and the Bakufu: Between Cultures of Frivolity and Frugality.  By : Mathew Toll
    This essay explores the socio-economic and cultural transformations of Japan’s Tokugawa period (1600-1867).
  • European Integration: Westphalian Cooperation or Federalization?  By : Mathew Toll
    This essay investigates the process of European integration. In order to ascertain, whether or not it has been from its origins primarily a political project towards federalization or some form of political union.
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