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Jul 03 2009
Beyond Independence
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By Robert Jensen   
We are most free when we are most bound to others

Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,” [1] which assumes a zero-sum game in which individuals are always in competition for that power—someone dominates and someone submits. In such a world, one can use this kind of power with varying levels of responsibility to others, but in such a world it is inevitable that power routinely will be used unjustly.

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Jul 01 2009
A Day in the Life of Israeli Extremists
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By William deB. Mills   

As Washington demurely casts its eyes to the side, Israel’s campaign of violence against the Palestinians is intensifying. Whether or not Israel’s barbarism constitutes a model of Washington’s overall attitude toward the world’s Muslim people is a question Americans need to start contemplating.

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Jun 30 2009
Tribal Marxism for Dummies
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By Gilad Atzmon   

For very many years the Palestinian solidarity discourse was dominated by leftist ideology carried largely by Jewish Marxists. Though the support of Jewish leftists was rather important at an early stage, it lost its primacy and urgency as Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian solidarity discourse evolved into a vivid autonomous discourse based on widely accepted ethical grounds. The Israeli war crimes against Palestinians are now well documented. No one needs the odd kosher ‘righteous Jew’ to approve that this is indeed the case.

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Jun 29 2009
Not Their Finest Hour
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By MWC NEWS   

It has been painful to see so many political leaders in the United States devalue the Iranian uprising—potentially the most important event since the fall of the Berlin Wall—by using it to score cheap points off each other, disrespecting the people who are risking everything in the name of freedom.

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Jun 26 2009
Gay Rights Movement
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By MWC NEWS   
 Look at the Gay Rights Movement Beyond Marriage and the Military

Forty years after Stonewall, where is the gay rights movement headed? What does the focus on marriage equality mean for the goals of gay liberation? We speak with activist, writer and historian, Lisa Duggan. “It remains to be seen whether a call for full civil equality can produce mass mobilization, or whether it might soon be reduced to a call for gay marriage only, or worse, to the production of just another commercially sponsored gay parade,” Duggan writes.

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