noted. 02/08/2012

• COLONIZER: Chris Hedges – A Postcolonial Reading | #OccupyOakland Media

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  • The sudden volte-face of famed Liberal destroyer Chris Hedges in his recent demonization of the Black Bloc, sinisterly entitled ‘The Cancer of Occupy’, is a wonderful introduction for North American activists to the field of Postcolonial Theory. Edward Said’s seminal text ‘Orientalism’ examines how Western study of ‘The Orient’ contributes to the functioning of colonial power. Representations of ‘The Orient” in Western texts purporting to offer knowledge and insight into ‘other’ countries actually perpetuates the dichotomy between the West and ‘Others’ – in so doing, reaffirming the colonial relationship, even long after postcolonialism has apparently been established following the decolonizing process. The role of former colonizer is adopted in the discourse by the white, educated Chris Hedges, who writes glowingly of Greece’s response to their economic crisis in an article from May 2010:

     

    Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare—the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.

     

• The Wild Wild Left:: Perspectives On Hedge's "Cancer in Occupy"

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  • There are millions of people dying from our use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq, and that the gene pool in Afghanistan is so compromised by its use, that not having a birth defect is now the rarity in infants, and birds are literally melting on tree branches. 

    "But people won't support OWS if you break a window!" 

• 'DU destroying Afghans' gene pool' - Tehran Times

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  • The United States' use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan has destroyed the people's health and mutilated the genetic future of the country, according to an Afghan political activist. 

     

       

     

      Dr. Mohammad Daud Miraki, the author of Afghanistan After Democracy: The Untold Story Through Photographic Images, told Press TV's Kabul correspondent on Monday that the U.S. has committed horrific crimes against the people of Afghanistan. 

     

       

     

      He said the U.S. military has used depleted uranium in the country and Afghan babies are being born with severe deformities. 

     
  • "And then there were bizarre scenes of birds melting on trees,"

• I am the cancer. I am not a human being, I am the beast. | Birds Before The Storm

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  • Using Zerzan as the purported ideologue of the black bloc though is where this subtext becomes completely transparent: Zerzan and Jensen are the two most important “anti-civilization” theorists and they are at odds with one another. Zerzan argues for an anarchist, non-authoritarian way of dismantling civilization. Derrick Jensen has open and widely-published aspirations of being the figurehead of a hierarchical anti-civilization group. Green Maoists, as it were.

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