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Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The Liberal, Radical, Hippie, Baby Boomer Left? Not on this site Tully!

Who are we Boomers going to emulate this political season — Gandhi, Jane Fonda,... more

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Deaths of Amb. Stevens and staff stretch meaning of free speech to the breaking point | Scholars and Rogues

Rev. Jones has also been active in spreading the myth to gullible Americans that the... more

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SCOOP! Seven Questions For Paul Ryan After Mitt Romney Bows Out And Endorses Him For President

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Only Communism can save liberal democracy

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Worldwide Hippies Interview; A Green Beret for Peace

A Green Beret for Peace WWH – An Interview with William T. Hathaway... more

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How to defeat terrorism ... for Dummies!

Do you want to know how we could prevent an Islamic radical such as Bin Laden and his... more

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Newstalgia Reference Room - Eisenhower: Man's Right To Knowledge - 1954.

A word or two from The Old Hippie.

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Britain’s Decline: Islamic extremists declare Britain’s first Sharia law zone

Britain have sunk further and quicker than we thought possible. Sharia law Zone in... more

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Perspicuus Animus | Art BySilent Studio Blog

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of... more

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Ellipsoid of Revolution | Art BySilent Studio Blog

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Birth (of the Image) of a Nation: Jean-Luc Godard in Mozambique + Kuxa Kanema documentary

While Jean-Luc Godard’s life and work has received a plethora of critical... more

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Stealth PACs Database Tracks Political Spending By 120 Groups - Government Reform Initiatives

The government should serve voters, not corporate special interests. Public Citizen... more

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Rad Halloween Anthem "Werebabe!"

Just in time to get you hyped for HALLOWEEN! MPLS.TV's “City of... more

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Lets Talk - London, UK

Discussion and spoken word event held every 2nd Monday. www.facebook.com/letsevents

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The Media: Where are the Moderate Muslims?

I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning and the panel was discussing the lack... more

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Old Radicals

A documentary short created for the 2010 International Documentary Challenge on the... more

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Some Funky And Hilarious Headphone Designs | SnitchCentral

Here are some of the most creative, imaginative, rare, funky and probably hilarious... more

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On Memorial Day 2010, Remembering is a Radical Act « SpeakEasy

May 31, 2010

I live next to the Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where thousands of soldiers are on their backs, staring into the earth above them, their last memory a moment of pain in the Civil War. Their bullets were removed, and their bodies carried on wagons and trains back to New York where their loved ones stared at them hard and sang to them and wept, and then one by one they too lay down next to their fathers and brothers and sons.
In the United States, we won’t remember these things on Memorial Day. Not in the way of a strong memory that moves us. Our minds will be cleared of the images so that we are ready for our next directed act of consumption. For instance, we will be readied to experience war as visual entertainment, war as an event without meaning, battles as ads – so that we will forget Viet Nam and buy Iraq, forget Iraq and buy Afghanistan.
And personally, I live in a time of my life when my body is mimicking the memory loss of society at large. If the culture of the USA is memory-erasing, I too have to fight for the sensual details of my personal past. We are hyped literally out of our minds until Memorial Day turns into a three-day weekend. I hope today that we are able to remember the dead and resurrect the future.
The Massey coal blast, and BP’s poisoning of the gulf – these are interruptions that worry the corporate marketers because they revive our memory. These two disasters are man-made, but oil and coal is the Earth too and the Earth is finding inventive ways to excite our memory. That oil won’t stop because that bleeding wound is necessary. Nothing that comes from modern culture can shock us. There are no Picassos or Elvis Presleys anymore. But the Earth, the Earth can more than shock us.
We are Earth’s rogue species. The Earth says that this is the time that our drilling down into the ancient sunlight of oil and coal be replaced by a view of the millennia of life there, that we see the original life buried beneath the mountains and oceans, that we see it and remember it. Our personal ancestors live too, with untapped energy, beneath our mountains of disinformation. My neighbors died so that we would not enslave our fellow Americans. If we really remembered this on Memorial Day, we wouldn’t be afraid of the corporations and fundamentalists. Remembering is a radical act.

I live next to the Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where thousands of soldiers are on their backs, staring into the earth above them, their last memory a moment of pain in the Civil War. Their bullets were removed, and their bodies carried on wagons and trains back to New York where their loved ones stared at them hard and sang to them and wept, and then one by one they too lay down next to their fathers and brothers and sons.

In the United States, we won’t remember these things on Memorial Day. Not in the way of a strong memory that moves us. Our minds will be cleared of the images so that we are ready for our next directed act of consumption. For instance, we will be readied to experience war as visual entertainment, war as an event without meaning, battles as ads – so that we will forget Viet Nam and buy Iraq, forget Iraq and buy Afghanistan.

And personally, I live in a time of my life when my body is mimicking the memory loss of society at large. If the culture of the USA is memory-erasing, I too have to fight for the sensual details of my personal past. We are hyped literally out of our minds until Memorial Day turns into a three-day weekend. I hope today that we are able to remember the dead and resurrect the future.

The Massey coal blast, and BP’s poisoning of the gulf – these are interruptions that worry the corporate marketers because they revive our memory. These two disasters are man-made, but oil and coal is the Earth too and the Earth is finding inventive ways to excite our memory. That oil won’t stop because that bleeding wound is necessary. Nothing that comes from modern culture can shock us. There are no Picassos or Elvis Presleys anymore. But the Earth, the Earth can more than shock us.

We are Earth’s rogue species. The Earth says that this is the time that our drilling down into the ancient sunlight of oil and coal be replaced by a view of the millennia of life there, that we see the original life buried beneath the mountains and oceans, that we see it and remember it. Our personal ancestors live too, with untapped energy, beneath our mountains of disinformation. My neighbors died so that we would not enslave our fellow Americans. If we really remembered this on Memorial Day, we wouldn’t be afraid of the corporations and fundamentalists. Remembering is a radical act.May 31, 2010 I live next to the Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where... more

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Interview With Dhoruba Bin Wahad - Black Panther Veteran and 19-year political prisoner + Black Panthers (1968) documentary

After 19 years in prison - seven of them in solitary confinement - Dhoruba Bin Wahad... more

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Anarchism and the Beliefs of Mikhail Bakunin + "Statism and Anarchy" free book

In 1965 Ernesto “Che” Guevara arrived in Bolivia to begin a Cuba-style... more

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