Author Archives: stutteringsteps

War is Murder.

Posted on May 26, 2014 by stutteringsteps

This US Memorial Day Remember War Is Murder. Re-blogged from Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry, http://EcoInternet.org/  May 25, 2014 This Memorial Day, as America lionizes the bravery and sacrifice of its soldiers, try if you can to step aside … Continue reading →

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‘THESE THINGS HAPPEN!’

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stutteringsteps

The response by Turkey’s President Erdogan, to the recent mining disaster in Soma Turkey, amounted to nothing more than a blasé ‘off-hand‘ remark; eg ‘These type of things happen all the time’. Such a complacent and blatant disregard for the … Continue reading →

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CIVIL-WAR IN UKRAINE?

Posted on May 2, 2014 by stutteringsteps

In two previous articles, (Uprisings and Revolutions 1 and 2) the results of research into previous revolutionary transformations, listed five major stages of struggle in overthrowing a ruling political elite and five further stages needed to accomplish a post-capitalist form … Continue reading →

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GLOBAL DYSTOPIA.

Posted on April 21, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Dysfunction and disintegration. In the 21st century, the capitalist mode of production more and more resembles a science-fiction dystopia – on a truly global scale. Despite the extremely functional efficiency of modern technology driven by the profit motive, economies, societies … Continue reading →

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UKRAINE: MORE CONFLICT AND CHAOS!

Posted on April 12, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Predictably, the events in the Ukraine continue their downward path as more citizens in some of its regions, fear the IMF/Nato path the new Kiev government has embarked upon. Instead of re-assuring all its citizens they will be consulted about … Continue reading →

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FLIGHT MH370! Was a dollar too much?

Posted on April 4, 2014 by stutteringsteps

According to an aeronautical engineer, a dollar an hour is how much it would cost to install technology on every aircraft which would broadcast height, speed, position every hour. By this low-cost means it would have been possible to accurately … Continue reading →

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CAPITALISM AND FASCISM.

Posted on March 28, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Those who have been led to believe that the western ‘Allied’ countries who fought the Second World War were fighting to end Fascism, must be puzzled by recent events in the Ukraine.  For in the last few months politicians in … Continue reading →

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CRIMEA EXITS UKRAINE! What’s next?

Posted on March 19, 2014 by stutteringsteps

The referendum vote in Crimea has predictably swung the way of becoming part of the Russian Federation and Russia has signed an agreement to accept this new status. The speed of this development has caught the European and US pro-capitalist … Continue reading →

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UKRAINE IMPLODES.

Posted on March 10, 2014 by stutteringsteps

A new Crimean War? It is a truism that the first casualty of war is the truth. There are already good reasons for asserting that this exists in the current war of words between the Anglo-Saxon coalition of Capitalist governments … Continue reading →

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THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY.

Posted on February 27, 2014 by stutteringsteps

Introduction. A previous post [‘Fundamentalism’] noted that whilst the numerous current popular upsurges throughout the world are mainly targeted against the neo-liberal capitalist system, its western elites and their numerous puppet regimes, they are not taking on an explicitly anti-capitalist … Continue reading →

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