Monthly Shaarli
November, 2017
"Hipparchia of Maroneia (fl. c. 325 BC) was a Cynic philosopher, and wife of Crates of Thebes. She was born in Maroneia, but her family moved to Athens, where Hipparchia came into contact with Crates, the most famous Cynic philosopher in Greece at that time. She fell in love with him, and, despite the disapproval of her parents, she married him. She went on to live a life of Cynic poverty on the streets of Athens with her husband."
Full album of Mischief Brew's "Thanks, Bastards!" demo on Youtube.
"When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and moulded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction."
"Darius McCollum impersonates transit employees, steals their subway cars and buses, then drives off on the correct routes."
It's more than a waste that the MTA thinks it is better to keep this guy in prison for years than to cut him a paycheck.
Wikipedia entry for Darius McCollum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum
The new Inquiry's reading list "created by a group of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, and Jewish people who are writers, organizers, teachers, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, and radicals" for the Trump era.
50,000 Haitians are losing their Temporary Protected Status.
"As the only U.S. immigration program that grants legal rights to migrants in response to environmental disasters, the fate of the program should be seen as a de facto test case for how the world’s wealthiest country, and its largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, is going treat the coming waves of climate refugees.
"So far, the message is clear: Go back to a hell of our making."
SkyNews interview with a young British ISIS fighter.