Greedy Bloodthirsty Warmongers

“We can’t imagine life without [oxygen], but life is actually quite hard with it,” says the evolutionary biologist Courtney Stairs. How does life walk the edge of paradise and poison? quantamagazine.org/the-cells-that…

“I saw a baby die in front of me. He didn’t even cry – he didn’t have the strength.” – Testimony from an American officer at a GHF food site in Gaza. This is not a humanitarian crisis. It’s a military policy. Intentional starvation. A war crime.

Alien mural, 1978, by H.R. Giger

Critical political economy is defined by its steadfast commitment to a trans-disciplinary process, articulating the economy not as an atomistic physical entity, but as an integrated social system. Yours truly, Utah Vanguard utahvanguard.medium.com/critical-polit…

It's like that boring dictum from Lord Acton "power tends to corrupt", it's true but trivial, what's more pertinent is how it obscures that wealth itself is economic *power*, and easily convertible to *political* power.

"Yes yes, just spend more time fighting about Sydney Sweeney, no need to diagnose how the circuit of capital works"

I would fucking download and print a car if I could. And no, copying, just like any act of reproduction, is not theft, it's a feature of creativity.

It would not be controversial to say that he should anticipate being beaten to death when people were starving and the only source of nutrients available is that one coconut tree

Yes I'm for the free development of each, yes I'm for free association of producers, yes this makes me a communist by definition, no it's not a future ideal to be established, yes you've been indoctrinated to believe otherwise

Rare photograph of Nietzsche displaying his attitude toward conservatives whining about their powerlessness in bourgeois academia in core countries (colorised)

European enlightenment ideas wouldn't be a thing without the medieval scholastics, and the medieval scholastics wouldn't be a thing without Islam, so the claim that "Islam is incompatible with the West" makes as much sense as "Christianity is incompatible with secular liberalism"

In a long list of excellent papers by Daniel Dennett, this is among the best of the best.

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