Stan here. I’ve been AWOL at Insurgent American and

[With Kim Sky's permission, I am reposting an email about the soldier-effigy burning. It brings forward a helluva lot of contradictions; and I can't think of a better place for a discussion of them than among y'all. -SG] Portland Anarchists Burn Soldier Effigy — now on Drudge Report this has been kind of interesting. drudge [...]

Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. For many lonely years Cuba held high the torch through its exemplary programs to provide universal health care and education, both gratis, along with world class cultural, sports and scientific achievements. Although you [...]

A talk I gave last month at a Marxist workshop at NYU hosted by Professor Bertell Ollman, that I think intersects with the points you are raising. This talk would be focused differently if I was giving it to a “community” group, or even an anarchist group. Here, I too am especially concerned with the [...]

It’s easy, if you’re willing to use the internet as a by-pass medium to get around the funders that control both parties. All other things being the same, there are five issues you can emphasize that will get you enough of the independent and Democrat crossover vote to win in the General Elections in 2008, [...]

An analysis of the Bush “surge” in Iraq “Jodl! Is Paris burning?” —Adolf Hitler Aug. 25, 1944 Backstage The United States makes up about 5 percent of the Earth’s population, but as an aggregate we burn more than 25 percent of its fossil energy. That’s roughly true of all three main forms of fossil energy—oil, [...]

For the end of the year… Thirty-six separate commentaries from throughout the year. 2006: My Year with the Liberals By Stan Goff Spouting off on everything from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Anorexia nervosa, from gay marriage to vice-presidential gun safety, a middle-aged Army veteran without qualifications or credentials takes caustic potshots at the rich and infamous. [...]

The pundits exclaim. See the pundits exclaim. Exclaim, exclaim, exclaim. The Commander-in-Chief pronounces. See the Commander-in-Chief pronounce. Pronounce, pronounce, pronounce. (Just don’t pronounce “nuclear.”) I must be living in a parallel universe where why everything that is deemed most significant by the New York Times, CNN, and Harvard professors, is hidden from me. I watch [...]

Coming appositely on the heels of our film review of FFN, is the real-world reportage of INS raids on — guess what — huge industrial meat-packing operations in the Midwest. David Bacon reports for The American Prospect [excerpt and discussion below the fold]: “Tuesday’s immigration raids on meatpacking plants weren’t about curbing identity theft, they were about union-busting.”