Daily Briefing—3rd June 2010

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Chomsky’s Lectern: ‘The Role of the Radical Intellectual—Some Personal Reflections’ (Video)

Earlier this month, in Madison, WI, Professor Noam Chomsky reflected on:

• His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’;
• The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy and humanity” of the most brutally oppressed from Vietnam to Palestine to Southern Colombia;
• His introduction to the “intellectual class” of “liberal democrat” gatekeepers during his graduate studies and its manipulation of the word “enemy” for “conquerors”, ‘radical rewrite’ of John F. Kennedy’s “legacy” to communicate him as a “dove” after the Tet Offensive, ‘liberal imperialists’  and their ‘unprincipled’ objection to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “strategic blunder” showing its ‘deeply rooted imperial mentality’;
• The validity of the “Tea Party Movement”, the “big business community” and their love for Obama, the “owners of society” and how policy is engineered for “their interests”;
• The “global shift in power” from the “workforce to multinational capital” making China a giant “assembly plant”, the financial community’s ‘rational externality’ of “systemic risk” for “institutional reasons” provided by the “Nanny State”, the “doom loop” of government bailouts that provide incentive for those in power to create “financial crises”;
• The “moving” and “articulate”, though “ridiculed”, “manifesto” of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing (57:48):

Poll: 19 of 20 Elitists Prefer Barack Obama to Ron Paul

It isn’t socialism and the status quo is most likely unjust when 95% of the whose who sympathize with the elite “clique that revolves around Washington, D.C. and Wall Street” prefer the corporatist president to the constitutionalist congressman, according to a recent poll.

Daily Briefing—1st April 2010

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Socialist Worker on ‘When Wall Street Loves Reform’

The I.S.O.’s publication editorializes on why the “the Democratic Party is celebrating health care reform—and so is Corporate America”.

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach (Video)

A talk by Gary Chartier for the Center for a Stateless Society on his article of the same name posted here; how to cut the cost of care by abolishing monopoly privilege.

Part One (10:21):

Weekend Briefing—27th-28th March 2010

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Daily Briefing—26th March 2010

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Daily Briefing—25th March 2010

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Daily Briefing—24th March 2010

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Malcolm X on Slaves Doing the Masters’ Bidding

Brother Malcolm lays out the game masters use to play their plantation against each other, form a system where the slaves fight each other for the masters’ approval, identify with the master who kills him slowly. If you still think politics is the avenue toward justice, if politicians will ever dismantle the ruling class, if becoming one with State will moralize its inherent antisocial nature, if politicians will ever really give a shit about you; if you still cling to the self-defeating belief that there’s an ounce of virtue in loving ‘your’ country, supporting ‘your’ president, exercising ‘your’ democratic opportunities by pulling a lever like a Pavlovian monkey every 2-4 years, Malcolm had something to say to you (8:32):

Chomsky’s Lectern: Answering Questions Submitted by reddit Users

Professor Noam Chomsky answers the ‘top questions’ from reddit.com on cognitive science, the contemporary ‘anarchist movement’, objectives and strategies against tyranny, how the State is eliminating ‘public’ services and enhancing corporate welfare and asks the community a question in closing (31:54):

Honest Statism Beats a Fake ‘Free Market’ Every Time

Kevin Carson at the Center for a Stateless Society on the myths and prejudices of the status quo healthcare system, ‘government takeovers’ and the fake ‘options’ presented by the oligarchs.

U.S. Healthcare in Crisis: An FDR Interview with Dr. Mary Ruwart

Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. is a former pharmaceutical research scientist and Assistant Professor of Surgery. She has worked extensively with the disadvantaged in low-income housing and was a contender for the 1992 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nomination. Her scientific, political, and community activities have been profiled in several prestigious biographical works, including American Men and Women of Sciences, World’s Who’s Who of Women, International Leaders in Achievement, and Community Leaders of America (57:22):

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach

Professor Gary Chartier on: ‘promoting access, affordability, and choice by ending privileges for corporations, professionals, and the otherwise politically connected’.