By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Killdeer, Marmon fields, Williams, North Dakota, United States. “Why does Pantone have a color of the year? It started with … birds” [National Geographic]. From 2023, still germane: “Robert Ridgway, an ornithologist and artist at the Smithsonian’s…
In March, Holocaust denier and white nationalist Stew Peters dedicated a segment on his Rumble show to defending the Nazi book burnings and their destruction of Germany’s Institute for Sexual Research. Peters called those book burnings “awesome” and said that Adolf Hitler was a “hero” for it…
Vi närmar oss återigen 11 juni, dagen för att minnas och visa solidaritet i en värld av konflikter och kamper. Alla dessa är sammankopplade; det finns inga separata världar. Över gränser, språk, sammanhang och identiteter ekar både katastrofer och segrar runt om i världen. En miljö är inte…
On this so-called "Memorial Day," a U.S. Army and Navy Recruiting & Career Center was targeted in Downtown Brooklyn in memory of all martyrs of Gaza and all the courageous people of the world who sacrificed their lives resisting U.S. imperialism. Doors were locked shut, blood red paint was sprayed across…
By: Josefa Sánchez Contreras The tropical forest of the Chimalapas is burning. The election noise is drowning out the struggles of the communities fighting for life, forests, rivers, mountains, and animals. The heat waves, fires, dried up rivers, and floods are nothing more than expressions of what…
The results are in from Mexico’s June 2 presidential election and Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling left-populist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) has won by some 60%, handily defeating a rival backed by an alliance of the country’s more traditional political parties. The former mayor of Mexico…
AlQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity and Queers in Palestine are “Reflecting on Our Queerness in Times of Genocide” – June 2024 At a time when the world’s attention is focused on Palestine, we are looking outward from within – our land holds not only the immense pain and loss of the past…
8 e 9 giugno Tattoo Circus Benefit prigionieri e prigioniere sabato 8: dalle 11: apertura ed inizio tattoo ore 17: discussione per contestualizzare la nuova spinta estrattivista nell attuale scenario di guerra a seguire: cena e musica con Il tenebroso dal cascinotto – No Chappi?Bourgeois! __________________________…
Since 2005, Canal Barrial 3, located in the Yungay neighborhood, a place where during those years there was a strong anti-authoritarian presence housed in various social centers, has been operating. Mauri actively participated in this television channel, making programs, broadcasting activities and financing…
We once declared that the first thing to die in war is the truth. Today, along with the truth, morality accompanies death. In war, as painful as it is to realize the necessity of your existence, there are rules. Those rules are once again being broken by my pack of persecutors. I spent almost two and…
Around 4am on June 1 2024, an incendiary device was placed below a UC Berkeley police vehicle parked in front of UCPD station. The device was lit underneath the back left wheel of a police SUV, placed between the tire and underside of fuel tank. There were too many people around at the time to see the…
"Nous vivons en enfants perdus nos aventures incomplètes." Debard - Hurlements en faveur de Sade [either “We live our incomplete adventures like lost children” or “We live like lost children, our adventures incomplete” - or both?] May 1968 and France on the verge of anarchy ... An atmosphere…
Leaving the 20th Century has assumed almost mythical status since its disappearance from circulation some twenty years ago.However, its position as one of the seminal texts of situationist ideas is peculiar to English readers. as only 4.000 copies were ever produced and its distribution was mainly limited…
Art Young, The Masses, December 1915. After President Woodrow “He Kept Us Out of the War” Wilson, recently the subject of a fawning piece in the Atlantic by David Frum, brought the U.S. into World War I, dissenters became targets. The passage of the Espionage and Sedition Acts gave prosecutors broad…
Kerri Claire Neil (she/her) is a community organizer based in St. John's, Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland). She is Co-Chair of the Social Justice Co-operative of Newfoundland and Labrador (SJCNL) and recently took over her family's business, Downtown Comics. Currently, Kerri is actively involved in Tent City…
Yves here. Perhaps I am reflexively contrarian, so I hope readers in Europe and/or those who know the Middle East and North Africa will weigh in to sanity check this article. On the one hand, it seems entirely credible that a policy of handing dough to foreign countries to have them keep their emigrants…
Gorilla Mother Constantly Reminding Children To Slouch The Onion Climate Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’ Climate & Capitalism ‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban Guardian Giant viruses found on Greenland ice sheet Science…
By the mid sixties the situationist project had taken on its definitive form. The SI was to be a small, tightly knit group of revolutionaries devoted to forging a critique of contemporary, that is to say, consumer capitalism—and to publicising this critique by every form of scandal and agitation possible…
Yves here. This post about New York City hospitals and clinics may seem a bit parochial, but I anticipate that for American readers, it may evoke discussion of hospital closures and service cutbacks in their area. Plus nurses have been particularly effective at organizing, so it seems useful to support…
Yves here. It is a sign of how deeply partisan news reporting has become, above all in matters Trump, that I feel compelled to point a few things out, as unpopular as that might be in some circles. First, even Trump has due process rights. Fights over procedure, which can include getting seemingly strained…
Yves here. This post on data centers and their energy costs is another “micro illuminating the macro” piece, along with our post today on Mount Sinai. We and other sites have been pointing out the well-anticipated development, that AI and crypto are producing even more computer use, to the degree…
The ruse of international law has no means of ending the killing—Western states are supporting Israel to reassert their colonial agency From Interregnum Whatever the contentions on the term we use to express the scale and method of killing we are witnessing in Gaza, the description at the International…
It has come to this: Americans on 25 November are likely to send to Capitol Hill as their forty-seventh president either an 82-year-old who often stumbles, mentally, verbally and physically, or a 78-year-old whose vocabulary and truthfulness are limited and who faces multiple charges of corruption. The…
Killers of the Flower Moon, dir. Martin Scorsese (2023), written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, adapted from the book by David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon is set during the interwar years in Oklahoma, when a string of murders of First Nations Osage people were committed. Adapted from David Grann’s…
Submission Do you know what an affinity group is? Are you wondering what there is to do now that the encampments are gone? Are you thinking about how we strengthen our movements to prepare for more social upheaval through this coming year? If any of these questions interest you, we’ll be reflecting…
