Just went to see the movie "Moon." A good sci-fi psycho-thriller, but
even more, a metaphor for corporate purchase of (imperialist) consumer
well-being and complacency at the expense of (the ultimate) disposable
workers in colonized nations (oil-producing nations in West Africa?).
The very last lin
August 7, 2009 -- http://savevestas.wordpress.com -- The Vestas workers'
occupation of the Newport [Isle of Wight wind turbine] plant occupation
may be over, but the campaign is very definitely not. In fact, ... “it’s
just getting going”!
Vestas’ doings will still be disrupted as they go about
Venezuela: Freedom of speech, fantasies and double standards
Federico Fuentes, Caracas
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/806/41449
8 August 2009
Those “free speech” crusaders at the Inter American Press Association
are at it again, leading the charge in an international campaign
against what IAPA
On the AFL-CIO NOW BLOG web page appeared the article:
Jobs Don’t Live Here Anymore
by Tula Connell, Aug 6,
The unemployment data is due tomorrow, and it’s likely to be bad, with an
expected 300,000 to 320,000 jobs lost in July, according to the Economic Policy
Institute (EPI) and others. That
http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-needs-beach.html
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I trace the roots of my radicalization back to my childhood when I first came
into contact with the ugly face of capitalism via real-estate speculators.
Neither the system nor the people who benefit from it have changed very much
over the last fifty years!
My mother's father owned a bar and ge
Fact Sheet: THE TRUTH ABOUT RECENT MEDIA EVENTS IN VENEZUELA
London, August 4rd, 2009
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
There has been much uproar in the international media in recent days
as various radio stations in Venezuela have been closed and a “Draft
Law against Media Crimes
Mark Lause wrote:
> The surrender of Paris to the Germans certainly fueled the Paris
> Commune. The problem here is less the rhetorical appeal to patriotism
> than when it is used to dehumanize people who happen to be subjects of
> the government with which you are at war.
This is skirting the s
The surrender of Paris to the Germans certainly fueled the Paris
Commune. The problem here is less the rhetorical appeal to patriotism
than when it is used to dehumanize people who happen to be subjects of
the government with which you are at war.
ML
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Surely and was not patriotic rhetoric used by the Communards in 1871 as it
related to the Prussians and the Versailles regime?
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:37:32 +0300
> From: dgn.g...@googlemail.com
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Rape is not necessarily a consequence of war
> To: t...@hotmail.com
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>
> Empire Burlesque -
>
> Written by Chris Floyd Friday, 07 August 2009 21:55
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> clip --
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> There is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will
> not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of
> torture, senseless wars and rampant milit
In 1981 this NY Times reporter/State Department functionary wrote a very
insightful piece on the wars that were developing in Central America
that had the potential to become another Vietnam. I found it so
convincing that I became an activist with CISPES after consulting with
Peter Camejo. Henc
Louis Proyect writes:
> Sheldon Adelson, the hotel magnate and funder of right-wing causes,
> calls EFCA “one of the two fundamental threats to society,” the other
> being radical Islam.
I'm flattered, really, but I don't see "radical" Islam as posing any
threat to capitalism at all.
> “For
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/
Permanent Vacation
John Hughes died while strolling through Manhattan. Not to seem
insensitive, but that's a great way to go -- at least to diehard New
Yorkers like me. I'll be in the city in a couple of weeks, so if I croak
while cruising Central Park or Ave.
http://miradadehalconhn.blogspot.com/
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/460296/the_cheney_like_secrecy_of_the_obama_white_house
The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House
Those of us who proposed the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney
for violating his oath of office and engaging in a Nixon-on-steroids
spree of hig
http://www.businessinsider.com/did-goldman-discuss-suing-taibbi-2009-8
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Honduras Coup: A Template for Hemispheric Assault on Democracy
By Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
August 7, 2009
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs2586.html
The people of Honduras have now suffered more than 40 days of military
rule. The generals’ June 28 coup, crudely re-packaged in
constitutional guise
Labor's last stand:
The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act
By Ken Silverstein
Ken Silverstein is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine.
On a Monday morning this past April, a few dozen Arkansans from that
state’s Chamber of Commerce could be found holing up in a Marrio
Sometimes stereotypes are true.
G.
Fugitive contractor returns from hiding to testify against
construction boss Michael Forde
by Brian Kates
Daily News Staff Writer
Saturday, August 8th 2009, 4:00 AM
Hermann for News
Michael Forde may not be so pleased when he finds out that James
Murray ma
Meanwhile, the US continues to interfere in the affairs of latin
america when it sees it in its narrow interest to do so, in Colombia,
for example. If the State Dept. and the Pentagon and President Huevon
had a scintilla of integrity, they would dismantle all of the US
bases, including those in Hon
Nestor G. wrote:
if I was USAmerican, maybe you would be right. I just noticed
something. And, let us suppose that there were no American Indians,
African Americans or Latinos in New England, then why is tiny New
England representative of USAmerica? Still a problem.
Well, the problem is that tiny
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