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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nowhere to Hide by Ian Austin, Outside Agitator | Policy of Truth
[…] from Delaney Hall (4)Just a postscript to my June 3 post, “Nowhere to Hide,” featuring Ian Austin. I heard last night through the activist grapevine that Austin had […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Ian Austin, Outside Agitator
Scenes from Delaney Hall (4)Just a postscript to my June 3 post, “Nowhere to Hide,” featuring Ian Austin. I heard last night through the activist grapevine that Austin had been arrested. The arrest is obviously a case of targeting one of the most charismatic ground-level leaders of the migrant defense movement. He’s repeatedly been arrested…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Outside Agitation by Roderick T. Long
I remember when C4SSer Ross Kenyon was visiting at Auburn back in 2011, and while he was here he helped organise “Occupy Auburn,” and in an interview in the local paper — https://web.archive.org/web/20111212033435/https://oanow.com/n…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Why We Upheld the U.S. War Crimes Act At Port Elizabeth and Were Arrested by Outside Agitation | Policy of Truth
[…] Sal Son Logistics, “one mile from the port.” Port Newark, one mile away, ships bombs to Israel. Newark Airport brings a constant stream of outsiders in, and takes a constant stream out. The much […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Bodies Blocking Bombs by Outside Agitation | Policy of Truth
[…] with Sal Son Logistics, “one mile from the port.” Port Newark, one mile away, ships bombs to Israel. Newark Airport brings a constant stream of outsiders in, and takes a constant stream […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Outside Agitation
Scenes from Delaney Hall (3)In 1963, an outsider named Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled from Atlanta, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama to protest injustice there by deliberately intensifying “tension” in that, to him, foreign city. His presence, as well as that of his followers, was questioned by locals: However, we are now confronted by a series…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. In vaguely related news, when I was in NYC in 2007 for the SDS / MDS conference, I stayed at a (now no longer extant) hotel in Greenwich Village (the Larchmont, 27 W 11th St.) across the street from the building (18 West 11th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. It’s very sad to learn that Hamas has made such inroads into the Ivy League. You say that you were unable to find the tunnels at Cornell, which only underscores the imminent nature of the danger the institution faces…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Young people and their food foibles
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Archie, 6/6/26 I guess the joke here is that Archie, who we mostly know through his romantic misadventures…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Another Night of Military Exercises Using Civilians as Human Shields by Roderick T. Long
The campuses of Dartmouth and Harvard, I can testify, also feature subterranean tunnels, as a means of bypassing snow, ice, and general cold. The ones I explored on the Harvard campus took me from my residence hall to neighbouring ones, and also from …
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