Articles by The Bullet
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Peaceful Societies Are Not Utopian Fantasy–They Exist
Douglas P. Fry and Geneviève Souillac | The Bulletin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – The ancestral tribes of the Iroquois lived in constant fear of each other and constructed high stockades around their villages for protection. Then, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca transformed themselves into a union of cooperating neighbors.
→ read full articleMali under Indefinite Occupation
Roger Annis, The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
France Parliament Votes to Extend Combat Mission While UN Security Council Readies a Policing Force
→ read full articleParaguay’s Parliamentary Coup
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber – The Bullet,
2 Jul 2012
Authors and activists Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber analyze the ouster of Paraguay’s president. A soft coup has ousted center-leftist Fernando Lugo from the presidency in Paraguay and replaced him with a long-time political enemy.
→ read full articleGreece – Syriza’s Proposals: The Exit from the Crisis Is On the Left
The Bullet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Syriza, a coalition of 11 different left-wing organizations along with many individuals, is massively popular because of its stand against the austerity measures that have come as conditions–contained in what is called the “Memorandum”–of the bailout of the Greek financial system by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, known together as the “troika.”
→ read full articleDoomsday Clock Moves to Five Minutes to Midnight
Science and Security Board, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2012
It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007.
→ read full articlePolitical Crisis in Italy and Greece: Marx on ‘Technical Government’
Prof. Marcello Musto – The Bullet,
21 Nov 2011
In recent years Karl Marx has again been featured in the world’s press because of his prescient insights into the cyclical and structural character of capitalist crises. In the last thirty years, the powers of decision-making have passed inexorably from the political to the economic sphere. The events of recent days in Greece and Italy are a striking illustration of these tendencies. Behind the facade of the term ‘technical government’ – or ‘government of all the talents,’ as it was known in Marx’s day – we can make out a suspension of politics (no referendum, no elections) that supposedly hands over the whole field to economics.
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