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Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Here’s a really good doc about: … the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens’ charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal – allegations documented in Hitchens’ book of the same title … Continue reading
The Relevance of Anarcho-Syndicalism – Noam Chomsky
I’ve recently been really into Anarchist philosophy, or just the basic premises of Anarchism, because of my exposure to a lot of self-proclaimed Anarchists I’ve met in Hamilton. However, I’ve never been able to get a grasp on the seriousness … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ethics, History, Mental Health, Philosophy, Politics, Science
Tagged adam smith, agriculture, american revolution, Anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, bakunin, Chomsky, communism, defense department, Democracy, government, humboldt, hungarian revolution, industrial, industry, jay interview, jefferson, job satisfcation, john stuart mill, kibbutzim, kropotkin, libertarian, libertarian socialism, limits of state action, marxism, means of production, noam chomsky, orwell, pannekoek, participatory democracy, pentagon, peter jay, representative democracy, Socialism, society, spanish civil war, spanish revolution, state, thoreau, voluntary work, wage labour, wage slavery, war derpartment, workers' councils
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Norway Terrorist Attack: Oh the Irony of the Hypocrisy in the Media
Here’s a Democracy Now! video discussing the hypocrisy in the media relating to how some newspapers initially reacted to the Norway Terrorist Attack on July 24th. Numerous news outlets and commentators initially blamed the attacks in Norway on Islamic militants. Rupert … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Religion
Tagged 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Anders Behring Breivik, atlas shrugged, breivik, daniel pipes, greenwald, islam, jennifer rubin, jihad, muslims, New York Times, norway, objectivity, osla, pam geller, robert spencer, rupert murdoch, salon.com, Terrorism, the sun, wall street journal, washington post
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Making Up People – Ian Hacking
I’ve wanted to post about this article for SO LONG, but can’t find the time or energy to give it what it deserves. Instead, I’ll just post it for people to read, and maybe one day I’ll write a follow … Continue reading
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Tagged asperger's, Autism, autistic spectrum disorder, biopolitics, clinical medicine, dissociative identity disorder, Foucault, genius, human sciences, ian hacking, john stuart mill, looping effect, mad travellers, making up people, multiple personality, natural kinds, Nietzsche, obesity, Philosophy of Science, psychiatry, Psychology, Science, sexual abuse, Suicide, temple grandin, transient mental illness
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Why Socialism? – by Albert Einstein
I’m reading Radical Priorities, a collection of writings by Noam Chomsky that focus on his libertarian philosophy and political analysis, and came upon a reference to an article that Einstein wrote about socialism. Turns out it’s not very long, and pretty good.
Zoophilia: a Short Story by Hunter S. Thompson…and an Essay by Peter Singer
Hunter S. Thompson, almost a decade ago, published a book of short stories titled Screwjack. It’s very short, containing only three stories, the last of which shares the same title as the collection. For some reason, I’ve always loved that … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Fiction, History, Mental Health, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged Bestiality, dekers, freud, heavy petting, hunter s. thompson, kinsey, Peter Singer, screwjack, Sex, short story, Zoophilia
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Plato and Smartphones
I was recently invited over to dinner at a friend’s house. As an aside, I’d just like to point out how nice and how rare it is that people my age (at least people I … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Thoughts
Tagged ammon, blackberry, cell phone, egyptian, ibis, iphone, phaedrus, phone, plato, smartphone, Socrates, theuth
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