by Lawrence McMahon The El Paso Times reported on Wednesday that Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union, will be visiting Ciudad Juárez this upcoming October. You might be wondering: Why on earth is Gorbachev headed to the most dangerous city in North America, the undisputed Murder Capital of the […]
June 19, 2011
Thank God for that! Deuteronomy 1: 16-18 And I charged your judges at that time, “Hear the disputes between your people and judge fairly, whether the case is between two Israelites or between an Israelite and a foreigner residing among you. 17 Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be […]
June 17, 2011
A note to fellow communards regarding the text: As scientists marching against anarchism of every stipe and variety – and as militant revolutionaries working day and night to combat capitalist exploitation as a concrete totality – the scientific editors of Selecting Stones are pleased to present to its readership this interesting excerpt from Troy Clavileño’s […]
June 16, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Juan Cole just said something rather strange on his blog, Informed Comment. The piece covers the arrest yesterday of five Pakistani C.I.A. informants by Pakistani authorities. Big news, no doubt. Cole notes that U.S.-Pakistan relations have recently been “breaking down” in “alarming ways.” He cites the case of Raymond Davis, an American […]
June 14, 2011
by Anthony Burton In my last essay, “Theses on Dead Prez: Abolishing the Family,” I urged my fellow comrades who are still intellectually and emotionally enslaved to the American educational system – their educational system – to drop out of school immediately and start reading Marx, because the precarious conditions of existence for the proletariat […]
June 12, 2011
by Bruno Fournier Let’s face one of the most contentious issues of the contemporary U.S. culture wars head-on: Gay Marriage. What I am about to present here may seem an act of sacrilege to many, but that is because it is so infrequently attempted. The Gay Rights movement and the explosive issue of gay marriage […]
June 5, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Allow me to share a personal anecdote. A few weeks ago, I was at the airport in Detroit. I just so happened to overhear a conversion between two local businessmen, one of whom owned a few McDonald’s franchises in the city. The two gentlemen spent the better part of a half hour […]
June 26, 2011
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