http://delicious.com/jeremy6d/linkblog The Linkblog is a feed of sites I find interesting and want to share with readers. There is more interesting stuff out there than I can always write full articles on. Go to http://blog.6thdensity.net for the complete blog, or go to http://del.icio.us/jeremy6d/linkblog for the full linkblog listings. 2009-06-29T03:23:47Z http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/06/pitfalls-of-premature-eloquence.html jeremy6d "The dilemma faced by commentators of all kinds, not just bloggers, on the Iranian protests can be summarised by a single, annoying portmanteau word: instapunditry. The pressure to take a view prematurely in such a situation can only produce a series of stock responses, either based on CNN filtered news, or speculation from various samizdat-style websites, or material provided by the Iranian media itself." iran blogging twitter commentary media mainstream blogpost linkblog 2009-06-24T16:44:19Z http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06222009.html jeremy6d There is evidence that the turmoil surrounding the election in Iran is part of a neoconservative legacy regime change operation. covert_ops revolution iran linkblog article foreignpolicy obama bush neoconservatism 2009-06-20T16:42:35Z http://c4ss.org/content/670 jeremy6d Kevin Carson reexamines the term and sorts out the stigma. "If anything, it’s the choice of “capitalism” as the conventional term for a free market that needs explaining. Why name an economic system based on free markets after one factor of production in particular, especially when even neoclassical orthodoxy regards capital as only one coequal factor among several? The choice of terms, perhaps unwittingly, suggests a system in which the interests of capital have an especially privileged status; it may also suggest something about the sympathies of those who chose the term." socialism capitalism economics theory history article anarchism linkblog 2009-06-17T17:26:30Z http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204482304574219813708759806.html jeremy6d The Wall Street Journal examines the idea of secession. secession america politics mainstream article linkblog decentralization history 2009-06-14T17:21:01Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-cultural-pseudomorph-and-its-decay/2009/06/08 jeremy6d Kevin Carson looks at lean manufacturing from a Mumfordian perspective at the Peer2Peer Foundation blog: "The true potential of lean manufacturing is to eliminate inventory altogether by gearing production to demand. It doesn’t matter how lean a factory is internally, if the inventory is just swept under the rug–or into the factories and trucks, rather–with a thousand-mile distribution chain. True lean production will only be achieved in a completely relocalized economy, in which the machinery is not only scaled to production flow within the factory, but the factory itself is scaled as closely as possible to local demand and sited as close as possible to the point of consumption." economics manufacturing lean mutualism blogpost linkblog p2p technology organizational_theory 2009-06-07T15:52:19Z http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/02/corporations/index.html jeremy6d Corporations started out as entities chartered by the state for particular purposes. The economic crisis implies that it might be time to return to a more limited form of incorporation. corporation tort_law law economics economic_crash linkblog article 2009-05-29T17:08:43Z http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/05/the-fiscal-crisis-of-the-state.html jeremy6d "I’m reminded of James O’Connor’s The Fiscal Crisis of the State, written in 1973. State spending in a capitalist society, he said, must fulfil two functions: to raise profits, for example by maintaining aggregate demand; and to legitimate the system by ameliorating inequalities. But, he said, these forces for higher spending increased faster than people’s willingness to pay tax. The upshot was a tendency to bigger budget deficits, even in decent economic times." linkblog blogpost marxism biggov't capitalism interventionism central_planning 2009-05-28T18:05:06Z http://bothwell.typepad.com/whos_your_nanny/2009/05/why-i-dont-like-to-discuss-politics-with-friends.html jeremy6d Brutus discusses why he doesn't like to discuss politics with friends: "How do you maintain friendships with people who have implicitly told you they have no problem with armed men threatening to beat, imprison, or kill you because you disagree with their political agenda?" politics libertarianism rhetoric america linkblog blogpost 2009-05-04T12:21:59Z http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=2879 jeremy6d Kirkpatrick Sale discusses the recent rise in secessionist talk. secession current_events article politics america linkblog 2009-04-22T13:37:32Z http://www.blackoakmedia.org/archives/Votlucka.html jeremy6d Marcel Votlucka makes a crucial point about radical activists' attitudes in a new article at Black Oak Media: "...the very concept of 'sheeple' is perilous because it evokes the kind of arrogance, contempt and deep-rooted fear the State has for free, motivated and empowered people. It brings radicals dangerously close to thinking along the same lines as hard-core Statists even as we attempt to offer an alternative way." linkblog anarchism activism attitude psychology 2009-04-18T11:58:00Z http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/04/shrink-the-state-a-leftist-aim.html jeremy6d "Belief in big government rests upon the notion that there’s an elite of leaders which has the wisdom and know-how to manage our affairs from the top-down; this is why New Labour found common cause with corporate bosses - both share the same ideology. But it is an utterly anti-egalitarian notion. It is also utterly wrong." leftism biggov't linkblog activism class blogpost 2009-04-17T20:56:25Z http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/14/lobbying-clients-teaparties/ jeremy6d The truth behind the astroturf tea parties. activism corporations corporatism conservatism current_events linkblog 2009-04-13T14:55:05Z http://c4ss.org/content/329 jeremy6d Kevin Carson exposes the lack of transparency and accountability in the Obama administration, which is using "national security" as a way to avoid embarrassing bureaucrats. national_security security politics obama executive surveillance law linkblog government 2009-04-13T14:32:03Z http://attackthesystem.com/2009/04/why-i-am-an-anarcho-pluralist/ jeremy6d "Political victory in the United States is achieved through the assembling of coalitions of narrow interest groups who often have little in common with one another (gun toting rednecks and country club Republicans, homosexuals and traditional working class union Democrats). Imagine if a third force emerged in U.S. politics whose only unifying principle was a common desire to remove one’s self and one’s community from the system. The only thing anyone has to give up is the desire to tell other communities what to do." separatism anarcho-pluralism decentralization coalition_politics politics libertarianism anarchism tribalism blogpost linkblog 2009-04-12T15:31:17Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-healthcare/2009/03/31 jeremy6d "Much of what an MD does doesn’t actually require an MD’s level of training. Unfortunately, no matter how simple or straightforward the specific procedure you need done, you have to pay for an MD’s level of training. The medical, dental and other lobbies make sure that legislation is in place prohibiting advance practice nurses or dental hygienists from performing even the most basic services without the “supervision” of an MD or DD." mutualism medicine regulation bigpharma pharmaceutical diy linkblog open_source p2p essay