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Boston Marathon Bombings raise Juan Cole Threat Level to High
Because of the two bombings this afternoon at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, we are working under the assumption that Prof. Juan R. I. Cole is more likely than usual to make stupid statements about terrorism, Osama Bin Ladin, and Timothy McVeigh within the next 24 to 48 hours. For this reason, the […]
Ten Years Ago Today, America Bombed the Shit out of Baghdad for No Reason (“Shock and Awe” a decade later)
March 21, 2013
One decade + two days ago, America and its Coalition of the Willing™ (including such famously reactionary states as Poland, which has been feverishly Catholic ever since 1989) invaded Iraq, seemingly at the time (and now) for absolutely no reason at all other than that Saddam Hussein represented an old Cold War relic that still […]
Erratum: Apparently the photo of Bergoglio giving communion to Videla is false
March 15, 2013
Within the past 18 hours or so, evidence has surfaced that the famous photo of a priest (supposedly Jorge Bergoglio, the new pope) giving communion to Argentine military dictator Jorge Videla is, in fact, not a picture of Bergoglio. The photo was from the AFP archives (taken December 12, 1990, it seems) and apparently it’s […]
Roman Catholic Church Chooses Fascist Pope Yet Again, this time from Argentina instead of Germany
March 13, 2013
IN NOMINE DOMINORUM NOSTRORUM RATIONIS MATERIALISMIQUE DIALECTICI HABEMUS PAPAM DICTATOREMQUE DEXTRAE POLITICAE So, the Roman Catholic Church picked Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope. Yes, it is true that the pontiff named Francis had intimate links with the right-wing military dictatorship behind the Dirty War. And our source for this revelation is not […]
International Women’s Day 2013, from Selecting Stones
March 8, 2013
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones once again wish our female readers a happy International Women’s Day. This year, we have chosen a different selection of images from the ones used last year. Have a good one!
Erratum: Fact Correction on Venezuelan Constitution and role of Nicolas Maduro
March 7, 2013
We apologize to our readers that we got some information wrong in our article about the death of Hugo Chavez. Specifically, the article said that vice president Nicolas Maduro automatically succeeds Chavez under the Venezuelan constitution. This is true; however, the constitution also stipulates that new elections must be called within 30 days, no matter […]
Sequester follows Fiscal Cliff follows Debt Ceiling, etc. – The Crisis in the United States of America
March 1, 2013
The United States of America is in a constant fiscal crisis, directly so since 2008 when the ongoing world recession began. This evening, after the Democratic and Republican parties failed to reach any kind of agreement, Barack Obama signed into law the so-called “sequester” that everyone has been fearing. The next crisis sits merely a […]
An Interesting Type: People who write their own Wikipedia pages
February 13, 2013
On a relatively routine basis, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones like to discuss the culture of academia, the place in society where undeserved self-importance abounds perhaps more than anywhere else. We have examined the ways in which academia cloisters itself from the world in a self-referential formalism that serves no purpose other than its […]
You’re Welcome, Kansas
January 11, 2013
On January 8, 2013, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones proposed the “God Hates Sam Brownback Act” bill to the Kansas legislature. As you can see in the copy of the legislation that we posted at that time here on this blog, we specifically demanded the following from the governor in section 3 of our […]
Finance Ministries of the World
January 9, 2013
As Marx emphasizes in the Grundrisse, the circulation of commodities, or commerce, is a special business. “On it depends the number of people carrying on exchange, e.g. the size of the population; their distribution as between town and countryside; the absolute quantity of commodities, of products and of productive agents; the relative quantity of commodities […]
Part Two of the Dialectic of Landlord and Tenant
October 26, 2012
In part one of the Selecting Stones treatment of the dialectic of Landlord and Tenant, we examined this relationship from the standpoint of Work itself. We were therefore able to see quite clearly that the tenant has to work doubly hard in order to support the livelihood both of himself and of his landlord. From […]
The Soviet Approach to Religion
September 14, 2012
Under the Soviet constitution, you were free to believe whatever crazy nonsense you wanted to, but the moment you tried to make somebody else believe in your nonsense, you had crossed the line. You were impinging upon the rights of others to be free of superstition. We could learn a great deal from their approach […]
What Is A Landlord? What Is A Tenant?
July 31, 2012
A landlord is a person. The only difference between him and any other person is that there exists a sheet of paper in an office somewhere which has both his name on it and the address of some specific building. The tenant is also a person. The tenant lives in the same building mentioned on […]
Recognition for the Work of the Labor Policy Institute of Oklahoma
June 27, 2012
A new upstart organization called the Labor Policy Institute of Oklahoma (LPI-OK) has seen some recent successes with a new video they’ve produced entitled “The Main Street Moment: The Struggle in the Heartland”. As Selecting Stones itself originated out of Oklahoma, we saw it necessary to highlight the progress of another Oklahoma-based organization pursuing the […]
Muslim Brotherhood sends Egyptian stock market soaring
June 25, 2012
In a cacophony of nonsense, Selecting Stones took it upon itself to cut through the hype and lay bare the real nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a part of our ongoing project, The Encyclopaedia of the Bourgeoisie. In its objective orientation, the Brotherhood is a run-of-the-mill party of the middle bourgeoisie. It protects, above […]
How to spot Right-Wing Propaganda: The Abortion Issue
March 9, 2012
The following image has recently been floating around Facebook, passed to us via a page called “Being Liberal”. Leave it to the liberals to fail to recognize right-wing propaganda when they see it. It appears to be a run-of-the-mill endorsement of the Pro-Choice position on the abortion question. But take a closer look… Here we […]
Happy International Women’s Day from Selecting Stones
March 8, 2012
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones wish our readers — and, of course, especially our female readers — a happy International Women’s Day. What a great holiday! It’s such a shame that it is so little celebrated in the U.S. The U.S. is odd in other ways, too. For example, everyone knows that Labor Day […]
Fascism Forecast 2012 Update: U.S. Marines parade Nazi flag in Afghanistan
February 10, 2012
We offer today a quick update to Anthony Burton’s “Fascism Forecast 2012” article from last month. Our information comes courtesy of (who else?) the New York Daily News and the Pentagon itself. We submit the following photo for your consideration: Yes, those are some U.S. Marines in Afghanistan posing in front of the flag of […]
Selecting Stones Presents: Karl Marx on so-called “Gentrification”
February 7, 2012
‘Improvements’ of towns which accompany the increase of wealth, such as the demolition of badly built districts, the erection of palaces to house banks, warehouses, etc., the widening of streets for business traffic, for luxury carriages, for the introduction of tramways, obviously drive the poor away into even worse and more crowded corners. — Karl […]
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