Friday, November 18, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 17 Nov - Desktop “Militants” And Public Intellectuals



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Subject: CC News Letter, 17 Nov - Desktop "Militants" And Public Intellectuals
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#OWS: Arrests Continue In Major Cities
 By Andre Damon

http://www.countercurrents.org/damon171111.htm

As cities throughout the United States step up the police crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street movement, evidence has emerged of a conspiracy between city officials—possibly coordinated with federal intelligence agencies—to shut down the occupy encampments on the basis trumped-up charges of sanitation and public safety


This Is What Revolution Looks Like
 By Chris Hedges

http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges171111.htm

The resignations of Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's deputy, Sharon Cornu, and the mayor's legal adviser and longtime friend, Dan Siegel, in protest over the clearing of the Oakland encampment are some of the first cracks in the edifice. "Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators," Siegel tweeted after his resignation


Bloomberg Personifies What The Occupation Opposes
 By Glen Ford

http://www.countercurrents.org/ford171111.htm

Mayor Bloomberg, like all the rich man's mayors in all the U.S. cities that are determined to end their local Occupations, pays his hypocritical respects to democracy and reason, when in fact his authority is nothing but an extension of the rule of capital


After The Eviction: What's Next For
 Occupy Wall Street?
 By Nathan Schneider

http://www.countercurrents.org/schneider171111.htm

For those in it and those trying to understand it from the outside, the Occupy movement has never been easy to predict. As it enters this next phase, I'd bet we should be prepared to be surprised again


Desktop "Militants" And Public Intellectuals
 By James Petras

http://www.countercurrents.org/petras171111.htm

To address an active assembled public meeting, to formulate ideas, programs and propose programs and strategies through political action defines the role of the public intellectual. To sit at a desk in an office, in splendid isolation, sending out five manifestos per minute defines a "desktop militant". It is a form pseudo-militancy that isolates the word from the deed. Desktop "militancy" is an act of verbal inaction, of inconsequential "activism", a make-believe revolution of the mind


Syria On The Brink: Uprising Victim
 To Regional, International Power Play
 By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud171111.htm

If Syria doesn't wrestle its fate from the hands of these self-serving forces, the Syrian uprising and Syria as a whole will continue to be marred by uncertainties and foreboding possibilities


Mic Tells Tale Of Growing US-Israel Gap
 By Kourosh Ziabari

http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari171111.htm

Despite pretentiously showing gestures of friendship and cordiality, the ideological gap between the U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting wider increasingly


Kargil: An Enduring Conflict
 By Javed Naqi

http://www.countercurrents.org/naqi171111.htm

It is hoped the work on Zojila tunnel is taken up very seriously so that the people of Kargil no longer continue to be a second citizen of the globalized world

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