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Matt Gaetz sponsored a resolution in the House, supported by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, to force congressional oversight of the continued U.S. military presence in Syria.
The post House Hawks Kill Bipartisan Effort to End War in Syria appeared first on The Intercept.
All laws are ultimately backed up by “if you don’t we will send violent men after you” and we should never, ever, pretend otherwise.
Mao’s “all power comes from the barrel of a gun”, or pre-gunpowder, guys with swords or clubs, is, however, only one-third true.
What matters isn’t the violent men, it is controlling the violent men. If all power came from violence, then it would be guilds of violent men who run society directly, but as powerful as police and armies are, in most places it isn’t military men or cops who who make the laws and are in the executive positions and when they are it is usually in a second or third tier country.
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
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In the seventies and eighties, amid a climate of intense racism from both street gangs and the state, South Asians had no choice but to organise in their own communities. At a time when violent assaults in the form of ‘Paki-bashing’ were commonplace and racist murders would hit the headlines every other week, through the […]
In her 94 years, Elaine Mokhtefi has lived several lives. Born Elaine Klein in New York, just months before the stock market crash of 1929, she was expelled from university for refusing to obey segregation on public transport. After becoming the student leader of an international movement for world federalism, she was expelled for being […]
Brendan Behan died at just 41 years of age after he collapsed in a Dublin public house in March 1964. To Joan Littlewood, the pioneering figure of working-class theatre in post-war Britain, it was nothing short of a tragic waste of talent: ‘I was so angry with Brendan for dying that I felt like kicking […]
On 29 April 1996, Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan gave a legendary post-match interview to Sky Sports. Faced with the prospect of a tense Premier League title race, and responding to claims by Man United manager Alex Ferguson that Newcastle’s next opponents would go easy on them for certain unknown reasons, Keegan launched into a […]
Austerity is back. After a brief but disastrous experiment with debt-financed tax cuts, the Conservatives have returned to their comfort zone, telling us that decisive action is required to prevent government debt from spiralling out of control. Once again, there is no alternative: we must tighten our belts. While the rhetoric matches Osborne’s in 2010, […]