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"Science Friction for the Multitudes"
Geert Lovink Interviews Christoph Spehr
Much like Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zones and P.M.'s Bolo'Bolo,
Christoph Spehr's The Aliens are Amongst Us! is a classic in politcal
underground literature. None of the work of this German writer has yet been
translated into English. Spehr's writing is a mixture of utopian subversive
science fiction and a radical social analysis of today's global capitalism.
Aliens are Amongst Us is a story for the post-deconstruction age where the question What is to be done? opens up new spaces for the collective
imagination and action.
"Palestinian Defiance" (Part Two)
Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan, New Left Review What is your view of Fatah? From the outside it appears an amorphous nebula in which opposite tendencies coexist. The majority seems to stand behind Arafat and the Authority, but other factions carry out suicide bombings, which the pa condemns. It tilted left when the left was strong, and now seems to be tilting right, towards Hamas’s positions, especially on women.
Palestinian Defiance, Part Two
Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan
New Left Review
Palestinian Defiance, Part Two
Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan
New Left Review
"Palestinian Defiance"
Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan, New Left Review
The Ramallah doctor and activist, general secretary of the Al Mubadara coalition, on struggles against the Israeli Occupation, from the popular movement of the first Intifada to the tactical errors of the second, via the disaster of Oslo. As Abu Mazen is levered into place, what alternatives can combat both IDF stranglehold and the flyblown Palestinian Authority?
"Targeting the University"
Joseph Massad, Al Ahram Weekly Having usurped political power, the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad, an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack US universities as the last bastion where a measure of freedom of thought is still protected is engineered to cancel out such freedom and ensure that scholars will not subvert the received political wisdom of the day.
Targeting the University
Al Ahram Weekly
Having usurped political power, the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad, an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.
"One Struggle, One Fight:
SHAC 7 and the Future of Dissent"
Pete Spina
Lining the sidewalk outside the federal courthouse in Trenton, NJ on
June 1, 2005, some of the signs they hold show pictures of
restrained, mutilated or tortured animals from experiments worthy of
the imagination of Dr. Josef Mengele, involving elaborate and brutal
head restraints on terrified primates, wired brain implants on
prostrate, living house cats and disemboweled beagle puppies. Other
signs call for the defense of free speech, invoking the First
Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
"Fallujah: An Unnatural Disaster"
Joe Carr
Today, I did what few internationals have dared to do, I went to
Fallujah.
Fallujah is completely surrounded by US Forces, the only way in or out is
through one of four very restrictive checkpoints. People normally have to
wait hours, but since we had our magic US passports, we made it through
in
about 45 minutes. We did not observe them searching any cars, soldiers
just held-up traffic and slowly checked IDs. Like Palestine, these
checkpoints seem to have little to do with security and more to do with
harassment and intimidation.
Fallujah is devastating to drive through. There is more destruction and
rubble than I've ever seen in my life; even more than in Rafah, Gaza. The
US has leveled entire neighborhoods, and about every third building is
destroyed or damaged from US artillery. Rubble and bullet holes are
everywhere, the city is indescribably ravaged. It looks like it's been
hit
by a series of tornados; it's hard to believe that humans could actually
do this. I have a new understanding of the destructive potential of
modern
warfare.
"Toni Negri: Against the Empire ... For a Capitalist Europe!"
Roberto Sarti
In the run up to the [French EU] referendum a very popular intellectual, Toni Negri, decided to weigh in for the debate. Negri has now put himself on the same side as Chirac and Raffarin, the French bosses and the worst social democratic reformists, and come out in favour of a "yes" vote.
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