http://www.why-war.com/ Important and obscure information about America's "War on Terror". en-us http://backend.userland.com/rss Why-War? 60 John Zerzan gives a concise description of anti-civilization and green anarchist thought. He is interviewed by Radio Not Bombs! a student radio show at Binghamton University. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:22:50 EDT http://www.why-war.com/features/2008/04/zerzan-radio.html http://www.why-war.com/features/2008/04/zerzan-radio.html John Zerzan, the leading theorist of the anti-civilization movement, spoke recently at Binghamton University. The talk was organized by Why War? members and a video of the talk is now available online. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:47:46 EDT http://www.why-war.com/features/2008/04/zerzan.html http://www.why-war.com/features/2008/04/zerzan.html Nietzsche once wrote that every first nature was once a second nature. In a world where creatures are technologically manufactured, we must wonder what second nature, what animal instinct or inhuman drive, has become our primary nature. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:08:58 EST http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/inhuman_world.html http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/inhuman_world.html And what form of humanity best exemplifies our collective transformation into standing reserve? It is the consumer immersed in the virtual world of the television – that human-animal whose sole meaning is the consumption of beings and the corresponding production of a consumer identity awaiting exploitation by marketing researchers tasked with expanding consumption. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:05:17 EST http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/agamben_tv_barelife.html http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/agamben_tv_barelife.html A wise philosopher once wrote that before we can act ethically we must first learn to think. He claimed the dichotomy between theory and action is a false one and that in our age thought is the action needed most. His is a conclusion most activists resist. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:23:08 EST http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/mindful_militancy.html http://www.why-war.com/commentary/2008/01/mindful_militancy.html "In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." Tue, 02 May 2006 13:17:18 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/30/bushchal.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/30/bushchal.html "Gennady Yefstafiyev, a former general in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, wrote: 'The US's long term goals in Iran are obvious: to engineer the downfall of the current regime; to establish control over Iran's oil and gas; and to use its territory as the shortest route for the transportation of hydrocarbons under US control from the regions of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea bypassing Russia and China. This is not to mention Iran's intrinsic military and strategic significance.'" Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:24:28 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/18/chinarus.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/18/chinarus.html "Nothing is therefore more important than a revision of the concept of security as the basic principle of state politics. European and American politicians finally have to consider the catastrophic consequences of uncritical use of this figure of thought." Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:28:14 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/01/01/security.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/01/01/security.html "Taken together Virilio's grey ecology and 'hyper-vigilance regarding immediate perception' constitute a bold reaffirmation not only the life of the planet, but our own lives, our memories, the anima of our souls; everything that distinguishes us from mere automata." Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:19:10 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/1998/01/01/ecologyt.html http://www.why-war.com/news/1998/01/01/ecologyt.html "Democracy thus inscribing itself in polls and consensus necessarily arouses the philosopher’s critical suspicions. For philosophy, since Plato, means breaking with opinion polls. Philosophy is supposed to scrutinize everything that is spontaneously considered as 'normal.'" Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:50:43 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/1998/01/01/highlysp.html http://www.why-war.com/news/1998/01/01/highlysp.html Thus, it is simply not true that voting is considered to be an expression of the freedom of opinion. For in reality it is subject to what I call the principle of the homogeneous: candidacy is available to anyone, but to be elected to a place pre-coded for potential power you have to conform to a certain norm. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:09:28 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2003/01/01/philosop.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2003/01/01/philosop.html There is a growing conviction among members of the United States military, and in the international community, that President Bush’s ultimate goal in the nuclear confrontation with Iran is regime change. Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:46:50 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/08/theiranp1.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2006/04/08/theiranp1.html "Marcos has said the rebels will embark on a cross-country, pre-election tour aimed at uniting workers, students and activists around a leftwing agenda. The new phase of Zapatista action 'is not to draw lines, is not to promote the armed fight in another state', Marcos said. He added: 'It is to go and ask the people what they think and how their problems are being resolved.'" Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:11:28 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/zapatist.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/zapatist.html "I looked at IMC sites based in cities where I knew there were actions, and found nothing. Eventually, I found what I was looking for—on the BBC. The experience, unfortunately, is not uncommon. Each time I try and find news among the Indymedia drivel, I ask myself the same question: What happens when—in our attempts not to hate the media but to be it—we end up hating the media we’ve become?" Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:06:45 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/06/15/makemedi.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/06/15/makemedi.html "Now, suddenly, in June 2005, the Zapatistas proclaimed a red alert, calling all their communities to leave their villages and come into the forest for a massive "consultation" of the base. The reason? They said they could no longer afford simply to wait indefinitely as the Mexican state ignored the promises they had made a decade earlier in the truce agreements. ... The Zapatistas declared that they had ended the first phase of their struggle, and that it was time to move on to a second stage, one that would be political and not military." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:38:53 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/15/thezapat.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/15/thezapat.html "The Eco-village was the epicenter of brilliant tactical coordination. This was a result of months of reconnaissance work and a chaotic yet functional plan of blockading that provided both fluidity and agility. As soon as a report would come in that one blockade was breaking or being threatened by the police, the transportation team would have vehicles ready to take people to the location and reinforce the blockade." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:51:36 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/11/thebattl.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/11/thebattl.html "Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:41:49 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/26/horizont.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/26/horizont.html The full text of the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, published in June 2005 by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:24:53 EDT http://www.why-war.com/resources/files/read.php?id=192 http://www.why-war.com/resources/files/read.php?id=192 "northern Arabized minority groups led by Bashir may junk the peace accord and attempt a power grab. In fact, some Islamic fundamentalists have issued fatwas against anyone renting places or giving support to the SPLAs in the capital city." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:50:27 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/withgara.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/withgara.html "The Minutemen left California as a failure, drawing few people to their project while encountering strong resistance from a broad coalition of opposition." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:46:48 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/08/minuteme.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/08/minuteme.html "Once you sign a plea you cannot appeal it. I was threatened with 20 years in prison under an additional terrorist enhancement if I didn't take a plea, and I didn't have the financial resources to acquire the appropriate legal council for trial. I was railroaded." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:43:07 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/10/raisethe.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/10/raisethe.html "'Every single thing the U.S. did led to civil war,' says Christian Parenti, author of 'The Freedom,' his account of occupied Iraq. 'The failure of reconstruction, the firing of the army, the blatant theft of Iraqi oil money, the use of the Badr Brigade, the use of Peshmerga, the use of death squads, the use of indiscriminate detention and torture, the destruction of Falluja and other towns in Al Anbar province,' explains Parenti, created a raging insurgency and sparked civil war. Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:37:36 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/04/civilwar.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/04/civilwar.html "When former military liberation movements come to power, the very 'command character' that ensured success against the enemy tends to become the structural flaw which impedes their building of the democratic institutions required by civil society ... The much-celebrated attainment of formal peace with the north and, maybe eventually, independence for the south, should not be equated with liberation, and certainly not with the creation of lasting democracy." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:43:43 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/whatthen.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/08/08/whatthen.html "U.S. broadcast media are failing to provide even minimal coverage of the ongoing crisis — some say genocide — in Darfur, Sudan, according to a new report, which concludes that media fixation with celebrity, as well as the Iraq war, is crowding out news of important events that deserve global attention 10 years after the genocide in Rwanda." Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:40:26 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/13/darfurge.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/07/13/darfurge.html Three seemingly unrelated recent events highlight the imperial nature of the Bush administration's foreign policy: U.S. F-16 sales to Pakistan, the creation of an office in the State Department to plan for future U.S military interventions in developing nations and the indefinite detention in Guantanamo prison of a German man held on the basis of secret evidence that even U.S. intelligence disputes... Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:29:33 EDT http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/03/28/threestr.html http://www.why-war.com/news/2005/03/28/threestr.html