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	<description>New Year: Life Emerges from Darkness</description>
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		<title>Bottoms Up: A Pub Crawl with Karl Marx</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>

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Since it is New Years, we can expect that more than a few will be nursing hangovers &#8212; and may not be in the mood for serious fare. 


In the spirit of &#8220;hair of the dog&#8221; I offer the following recollection of a  pub crawl with Karl Marx. This night out took place in London [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15637&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kasama 2010: Starting Year 3 Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> Kasama Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Ely]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Ely 
In the darkness of each winter a new year is born. At a time when the sun barely seems to have the energy to push through leaden skys, people have chosen to announce the start of rebirth.
Two years ago, in December 2008, Kasama went live &#8212; with the publishing of 9 Letters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15615&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Secrets of the Old Mole &#8211; Mao&#8217;s Conjuncture and Badiou&#8217;s Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This podcast shares a talk given by Mike Ely at the Rethinking Marxism conference this fall:
Secrets of the Old Mole: Mao&#8217;s Conjuncture and Badiou&#8217;s Event
Opening Excerpt:
Marx sometimes compared the revolution to a mole, who burrows underground and then suddenly pops up, there in the garden, visible.
&#8220;Well grubbed, old mole!&#8221;  Marx exclaimed with delight.
This reveals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15623&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monty Python: Peasants Meet King of the Britons</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/monty-python-defiant-peasants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>

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Posted in &#62;&#62; analysis of news       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15610&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines Revolution: Struggling Out of an Impasse</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/philippines-revolution-struggling-to-break-out-of-an-impasse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> communist politics]]></category>
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After launching their armed struggle in the late 1960s, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has scored many successes, including the development of significant &#8220;guerrilla fronts&#8221; across  this archipelago.
However, for many years, this revolutionary movement has been unable to break through to a higher level of confrontation with the brutal government &#8212; and has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15601&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nouvelle Vague&#8217;s The Guns Of Brixton</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/nouvelle-vagues-the-guns-of-brixton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Danny.


Another Guns of Brixton, by the Anacondas


Posted in &#62;&#62; analysis of news, movies, video       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15553&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Underground: Revolutionary but Clueless</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/understanding-weather-underground-revolutionary-words-strategic-void/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[>> communist politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Avakian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Materialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 Bill Ayers has been describing his earlier Weatherman organization as merely a militant antiwar group. As part of a longer comment I wrote:
“&#8230;there is some truth to what Bill is now saying: because [Weathermen] were essentially a highly moralized, freaked out, highly militant wing of the antiwar movement — rather than a group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15577&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Boils: First Street Fights, Then Major Arrests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;“It is important for us to find the ways to popularize and politically support the most radical currents that emerge, and tirelessly expose the intrigues of the CIA agents, military bullies and lying U.S. rulers who want to tighten their grip on this whole part of the world. These are real responsibilities. The fact that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15559&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Onion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundamentalism]]></category>

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This piece is part of The Onion&#8217;s Our Annual Year: The Top 10 Stories Of The Last 4.5 Billion Years This is number 5 in their all time countdown of big events. Thanks to Enzo for suggesting it.

Members of the earth&#8217;s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15524&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Avatar: Not All Archetypes Are Equal</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/more-on-avatar-not-all-archetypes-are-equal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[>> analysis of news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cam'ron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This was posted as a comment in one of our several threads on the film Avatar.
&#8220;&#8230;when we use these archetypes, we are also reinforcing them – incorporating them into the culture of our movements. This might be ok – for those who feel only minor friction between these archetypes and their own identity and cultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeely.wordpress.com&blog=2230929&post=15542&subd=mikeely&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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