Occupy Movement - it's not the issues; it's democracy Stupid

You, me…WE ARE THE 99%; like it or not you are more like us and will never be one of them (or as likely to be struck by lightning).  This is not a revolution to change things; it is a revolution to change the process. I have just returned from the Occupy Howe Street...

Is David Tyree Right About Same-Sex Marriage As Anarchy?

Including homosexuals in the institution of marriage, expands the categories to include the coupling of a man and a man, a woman and a woman, as well as changed sex individuals, with the gender of their choice, and perhaps other categories that don't yet come to mind. ...

Air Force Zero: Obama, the Dems & a whole lotta slidin' going on

Commercials, if they’re good, capture and transmit back the sense and mood of the masses quickly. They have to – how can you sell stuff if you’re completely tone-deaf to what’s going on around you? Imagine...

Demystifying Anarchists

In 1971 William Powell wrote the book, The Anarchist Cookbook, containing instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices (cracking the phone network), and other...

Profile of a leading anarchist

Possibly brilliant.  Son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Too smart for his own good? I have often thought about writing a book about unthinking America. I know very well that my education was a form of...

A Long, Hot Summer of Hate

The recent musings of Conservative talk show/cable hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who attempts to align President Barack Obama and his administration with the Third Reich and Nazi Germany and...

Saudi’s large souk for fatwa merchants: Get your fatwas here!

Souk= marketplace, traditionally open-air, now on the internet and over satellite TV channels."Farcical fatwas, often at odds with each other, flood Saudi sites, satellites as faithful seek spiritual answers. By Habib Trabelsi Women are banned from sitting on a chair or...

Saudi Cleric Educates Children on How to Hate Jews.

This video is devastating because the shadows of his remarks have been presented on Now Public in the commentary sections by some known and not so known contributors to this site. What is truly sad is the...

The Gaza operation's unstated goal: Anarchy

This war was preventable but Hamas wanted Israel to attack and they provoked Israel by firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.Hamas got what they wanted and the Gaza people suffer,, again." Hamas, judging by its...

What do I get? 'Anarchy in the UK', $400 at Christie's Punk Rock Auction

Everything gets recycled.Punk nostalgia gets its day in the limelight at Christie's on November 24 with a Punk Rock Auction at Rockefeller Center in New York.I was left wondering what the Bob Dylan-Joan Baez (1965) Concert Poster was doing there until I understood the name of...

...and a small dash of Cannibalism

   Love, not unlike any other human feeling, has many sub-genres. Robert Plutchik, inventor of the “emotion wheel” would define them as advanced emotions. Love breaks down into such sub-sects like...

After Gaza blast Hamas imprison 200 Fatah man in 'Gaza's Guantanamo'

Facts and opinion. 07.26.08 The bomb blasts events between Hamas and Fatah In Gaza, reveal a 'Gaza's Guantanamo' prison, a suggestive name,  innocent  passersby killed by the Fatah bombs including...

Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...

Obama foreign policy by Brezinsky?

"America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower The Grand Chessboard Part 1 Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com October 1, 2007 In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he...

Kenya 'Drifting Into a State of Anarchy'

The violence continues in Kenya, killing at least a dozen people on Tuesday.I've been talking to a lot of people from Kenya in chat rooms and such and very few have been willing to speak in an interview, or even...

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