05-Oct-10
Dear visitor, Thank you for your visit. I no longer have a twitter account. I am retiring from blogging and will just leave this blog up as a memento in cyber space. I have been leaning towards deleting this blog but I put some hard work into this at times and there are some useful [...]
Gil Scott-Heron, without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music is back. It is his first new material in 13 years and sees him sounding as vital and forward thinking as ever. Check out the new single "Me and the Devil", taken from the forthcoming album "I'm New Here" (Out February [...]
International charities are appealing for donations to help Haiti. Want to REALLY help Haiti? Without funding the re-enforcement of imperialism? Donate to http://bit.ly/HERFund Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
G. A. Cohen Why Not Socialism? Princeton, 2009 92 Pages 10.95 ISBN 978-0691143613 As a teenager, Jerry Cohen was a counsellor in the Montreal Jewish socialist summer camp Kinderland, where, in the words of one of his young charges, "the sons and daughters of 1950s leftists spent July and August waging class struggle against mosquitoes [...]
Remember this? Boris Scraps Venezuela Oil Deal Canceling London-Venezuela Deal: Mindless Vandalism Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back at work after the winter break. Adding to their misery is London's mayor, Boris Johnson, who has made their journey much more [...]
It is now universally recognized within science that humanity is confronting the prospect -- if we do not soon change course -- of a planetary ecological collapse. Not only is the global ecological crisis becoming more and more severe, with the time in which to address it fast running out, but the dominant environmental strategies [...]
Led by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination Saturday 23 January 2010,10.30-17.30 Saturday 30 January 2010,10.30-17.30 In 1989 thousands of citizens defied the law and brought down the authoritarian regimes that were already crumbling under economic burdens across Eastern Europe. Many of the seeds of these revolutions were planted by artists and subcultures who devised forms [...]
Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement calls on the State of Israel to fully open Gaza's crossings and to allow the real victims of the closure – 1.5 million human beings – the freedom of movement necessary to realize their dreams and aspirations. "Theres nothing Jewish about what Israel is doing in Palestine [...]
December 22nd 2009, by Hugo Chvez Fras, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Copenhagen was the scene of a historic battle in the framework of the 15th Conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP15). Better said, in the beautiful, snowy capital of Denmark, a battle began that did not end on [...]
For four years in a row Simon Cowell's X-Factor has dominated the Christmas number one slot in the charts. He's certainly not the first person to send bland, manufactured porridge masquerading as music to the top of the charts but he is the first to insist year on year that there is no alternative. Year [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: "We Must Go from Capitalism to Socialism" [ 22-Dec-09 12:01am ]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: "We Must Go From Capitalism to Socialism" Democracy Now speak with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez about climate change, the Copenhagen summit and President Obama. Chavez accuses calls the COP15 summit undemocratic and accuses world leaders of only seeking a face-saving agreement. We must reduce all [...]
Fidel Castro: The Truth of What Happened at the Summit [ 21-Dec-09 11:51pm ]
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The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the true facts. Hope is the last thing human beings [...]
Venezuelan President's Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen [ 21-Dec-09 11:39pm ]
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December 17th 2009, by Hugo Chavez President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chvez: Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which [...]
Caracas – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday renamed Angel Falls, the world's tallest waterfall, saying it should be called by its indigenous name Kerepakupai Meru. Angel Falls are named after a US explorer Jimmie Angel, who in the 1930s crashed his plane onto the table-top mountain where the roughly kilometre-long drop begins. "This is [...]
Professor Noam Chomsky PhD talks about the real purpose of the US ‘war on drugs' in Latin America. Filmed by Paul Hubbard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 12-15-09
EXCLUSIVE unedited Rage Against the Machine on BBC December 17th 2009 [ 18-Dec-09 11:56pm ]
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Rage Against the Machine on BBC Thursday Dec. 17th 2009 For more info click here http://www.rockpit.com/ratm... See the BBC censored broadcast here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8418158.stm Go buy the single at http://bit.ly/rage-amazon you know it makes sense! #RATM For more on Rage Against The Machine go to http://www.ratm.com/ Rage Against the Machine has made another rare return from [...]
"If the climate was a bank, [the United States] would already have saved it" [ 17-Dec-09 11:56pm ]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Criticizing the destructive practices of the capitalist system, Chavez fears that the "infinite model" of capitalism will exhaust the finite resources of the environment.
A Decade of Propaganda? The BBC's Reporting of Venezuela [ 14-Dec-09 11:48pm ]
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Researchers at the University of the West of England, UK, have exposed ongoing and systematic bias in the BBC's news reporting on Venezuela. Dr Lee Salter and Dr Dave Weltman analysed ten years of BBC reports on Venezuela since the first election of Hugo Chavez to the presidency in an ongoing research project, and their [...]
