Una década atrás, la pasión carnal que sustentó la seducción al imperio y la amorosa entrega, se transmutó abruptamente en ira. Aquellas obsequiosas prontitudes y disposiciones sólo potenciaron la desilusión final y el desconsuelo. Argentina estaba acorralada y desharrapada en su soledad crispada. Una vez marchitas las flores robadas con las que fue conquistada, las [...]

EEUU campeón de invasiones, del racismo, la represión, la venta de armas, ¿por qué le llaman demócrata? 1. Se ha publicado que cientos de policías antimotines comenzaron a desmantelar el campamento del movimiento anti Wall Street en el centro de Los Ángeles en la madrugada del miércoles, donde los manifestantes los aguardaban con barricadas dos días [...]

As the Occupy movement keeps developing, it seeks solutions for the economic and political dysfunctions it exposes and opposes. For many, the capitalist economic system itself is the basic problem. They want change to another system, but not to the traditional socialist alternative (e.g., USSR or China). That system too seems to require basic change. The [...]

Can There Be Solidarity Between Movement Activists and Police Officers? Recent days have seen the increasing use of police violence against peaceful Occupy demonstrators around the country, including the gone-viral merciless pepper-spraying of students at UC Davis as well as that of 84-year-old Dorli Rainey in Seattle, and the critical wounding of Iraq war veteran Scott [...]

I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to “distract” the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of the legislative class. Nonsense. The OWS movement is not a distraction from—but serves as an alternative to—the disingenuous theatrics staged by the political hacks of [...]

One of the most celebrated features of the recent occupation movements has been the slogan, “We are the 99%.” Participants effusively love the slogan, but I have mixed feelings. Occupation critics bemoan absent demands. I say, patience. Occupation critics question ubiquitous moralism. I say, would you prefer being immoral, amoral, or moral? 

New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg justified clearing the tents and other materials of Occupation from Zuccotti Park, saying the protesters will now “have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments.” This is a strange kind of logic from the 12th richest man in America, who occupies City Hall for one reason only [...]

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan let slip in an interview with the BBC that she had been on a conference call with the mayors of 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy Wall Street movement. That is, municipal authorities appear to have been conspiring to deprive Americans of their first amendment rights to [...]

Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, [...]

En el camino de vuelta a Irlanda, después de la conferencia sobre Enfoques del Derecho Internacional en el Tercer Mundo de la semana pasada en la Universidad de Oregón, tuve que pasar algunas horas entre vuelos en Nueva York. En el sótano de una librería de segunda mano, tomé una vieja copia polvorienta de Selected [...]