_politicalist

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by _politicalist 16y ago
Because that's the wrong kind of "globalization." Investor-oriented globalization is the kind where a wealthy person can move his factory to Mexico and demand many of the same rights he gets in the US; but a poor Mexican can't go to New Yor
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by _politicalist 16y ago
If you read again, the person you're responding to mentioned being "honorary white". The notion of US whiteness evolves; take for example 19th century racism against the Irish. Blacks were called the "smoked Irish," and the Irish were "nigg
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by _politicalist 16y ago
True, but the minorities they were interested in protecting weren't the kinds we normally think of. After all, many owned slaves. And even when it comes to groups like females and "Indians", their record wasn't exactly impressive either. Bu
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by _politicalist 16y ago
Also the Gates family seems honest about it too. Bill Gates Sr. (co-chair of the Gates foundation) also advocates changing tax policy, on the logic that every software or biotech company benefited from federally funded research, which they
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by _politicalist 16y ago
People might be interested in Chomsky's overview of the educational system, as one where even stupidity has a role -- if there's a lot of stupidity in the system, then the people who'll succeed are obedient people (including him) willing to
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by _politicalist 16y ago
Well, groups like Wikileaks aren't wanting to apply anarchist ideals haphazardly; but rather in a reasoned way to help achieve a more bottom-up democratic world, which of course requires a better-informed populace. Among other things. For e
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by _politicalist 16y ago
From Assange: "Now we contacted the White House as a group before we released this material and asked them to help assist in going through it to make sure that no innocent names came out, and the White House did not accept that request."
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by _politicalist 16y ago
It appears that the Gates Foundation works under certain contstraints, dictated of course by the elite family which runs it. For example, they appear to strongly respect intellectual property and corporate profits, as you might expect from
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by _politicalist 16y ago
Actually, the incumbency rate for the House of Representatives has been well over 90%, due to corporate financing, redrawing districts, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_the... As for Germany, it seems there's