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The other day, I decided to have a clear-out.
I began the process by sifting through my many thousands of LinkedIn connections and started to weed them out based on a series of ’rules’ that I made up as I went through the process.
Rule: No photograph. Gone.
Rule: A logo image instead of a face photo. Gone.
Rule: No recent contact with me. Gone.
As my list of connections rapidly decreased I began to realise that I didn’t really ’know’ the remaining users, apart from two family (…)

The US announcement on normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba should be seen as a major and historic victory for Cuba and the peoples of the Global South generally—and it needs to be hammered home that it is a sign of failure on the part of empire. There is, first and foremost a real and meaningful admission that their strategies to topple the revolution have all failed—as well as, from the other side, an impressive and inspiring feat that a revolutionary people of this tiny island have (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Overtly, the Israeli superpower of the Middle East has been keen to posture as having no role whatsoever in the four-year old devastating conflict in Syria, where all major regional and international powers are politically and militarily deeply involved and settling scores by Syrian blood.
In his geopolitical weekly analysis, entitled “The Islamic State Reshapes the Middle East,” on November 25 Stratfor’s George Friedman raised eyebrows when he reviewed the effects (…)

In our previous analysis we described the social rage boiling in the peripheries of Rome, and the neofascists’ attempts to exploit them. New developments this week confirm some hypotheses of ours and help us to broad the picture.
A judiciary inquiry on December 2 uncovered a massive ring of corruption in the capitol (dubbed ’Mafia Capitale’ by the media), arresting a total of 37 people among fascists, politicians from government parties, criminals, entrepreneurs, corrupt police officers, (…)

Apartheid Israel and Apartheid Australia have appalling, continuing records of violating the human rights of their Indigenous Peoples through the Palestine Genocide and the Aboriginal Genocide, respectively, and must be held to account by the civilized world through Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) for their genocidal crimes and for currently violating all 46 Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The UN General Assembly’s 61st regular (…)

On December 10, French economy minister Emmanuel Macron will introduce sweeping economic legislation aimed at pulling France from the depths of a recession and righting the economy in the eyes of the European Union.
Dubbed the “Law on Growth and Activity,” this latest reform under President Francois Hollande undoubtedly endeavors to reduce unemployment, which reached a record 3.46 million people in October, as well as reduce the budget deficit albatross that has Brussels ready to level (…)

“This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein [1] sets out the dire state of the planet due to neoliberal-driven, man-made climate change. Her very well written but lengthy book is an indignant catalogue of the machinations of the Big Polluters and their Big Green collaborators, and concludes with the faint hope of a Revolution “when societies suddenly decide they have had enough” ([1], page 464). However before the societal tipping point is reached for Naomi (…)

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A message to Internet Posters, Readers and Trolls from Gaiacomm
Gaiacomm or I should say the person behind that mask, has been sternly warned and removed from posting anymore “freedom of Speech” messages from all blogs from the internet, in fact removed from the internet entirely. I have been allowed to post this last message to explain what happened to Gaiacomm, and the American Republic Manifestum and its blog, Gaiacomm International technology, UFO’s etc. Posting since 2001, apparently (…)

White Americans have essentially never internalized the Kenner Report. Assembled by Lyndon Johnson to address what was laughably referred to as the Negro Problem, the panel very quickly saw that this was a joke. There is no Negro Problem in the US, but rather a white people problem. FIFTY years ago (let that sink in), it opined, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black and one white—separate and unequal…Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; (…)