I think the last flick I’ve seen more than three times in theaters was Star Wars in 1977 when I was a sprite 11 years old. Yesterday, I saw James Cameron’s “Avatar” for the third time eagerly sharing each viewing with family and friends. Avatar’s latest box office has it ranked as the second highest [...]
Posts under ‘Imperialism’
50% of US oil comes from Latin America. US building military bases in Columbia
Columbia is the only country there that still freely allow the US to militarize within its borders. So the US is building seven new bases there and planning to station nuclear weapons there too.
This is complete madness, dealing with the most thuggish government in the area while deliberately provoking other countries.
Tell me again how Obama [...]
Civilians never die
Wali Jan Sabri, a parliamentarian from Helmand, Afghanistan, claims that NATO bombing raids killed 50 – 60 civilians yesterday.Â
In response, Lieutenant-Colonel Charlie Mayo, spokesman for the British forces in Helmand, said this:
“Because the Taliban don’t wear uniforms like us, as soon as they are killed, they are called civilians, the key is are they male [...]
Islamophobes get islamophobic
The question of religion, specifically Islam, is being played out as a stalking horse on the political left. As so many left intellectuals sign on with Islamophobia there has been a lot of chatter dedicated to the business of proving how right it is to see Islam as on par with rabid imperialism as the [...]
Ministry of Truth
How Orwell is this?
The newly-established unit would use “new media” channels to push its message and “set the record straight”, Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff said.
“We’re looking at being quicker to respond to breaking news,” he said. “Being quicker to respond, frankly, to inaccurate statements.”
A Pentagon memo seen by the Associated Press news agency said [...]
LatinAmerican resources a world away
Besides indulging in the occasional odd blog I also podcast. In fact it was through podcasting that I came upon Polizeros Bob in cyberspace — ie: yours and mein host — in the first instance. Now I got myself an LA franchise.
Among my podcastables is VenSol: the Venezuela Solidarity podcast. VenSol carries reports from [...]
Anti-FTA protests in Korea
South Korean protests are among the most militant and best-organized anywhere. There will be many of them in the coming days in protest against the US-led FTA talks going on there now.
Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition reports from Seoul.
South Korean riot police storm peaceful press conference.
Today’s press conference was the kick-off of what will [...]
Complete lunacy
U.S. weighs shootdown of N. Korea missile
North Korea might launch a missile that many South Korea newspapers say might well be a satellite yet the US responds hysterically by saying they might shoot it down.
Can North Korea save the day and change the subject for the Bush administration?
North Korea, starved for attention and with its [...]
Neocons target Belarus
U.S. government orchestrates anti-Lukashenko opposition
On March 19, Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected president of the Republic of Belarus with nearly 83 percent of the popular vote. The result confirmed all the pre-election polls, which predicted a lopsided Lukashenko victory.
This did not stop the imperialist countries and their faithful media outlets from asserting that the Belarus [...]
Iran and imperialism
“We had a democracy once, but you crushed it”
On foreign policy, Democrats would have you believe that Bush is the most reckless President and that he has ripped the United States away from a tradition of cooperative diplomacy by violently overthrowing governments.
But as former New York Times reporter Steven Kinzer points out, the opposite is [...]
On Capitalism
From our friend Wood in Wales
It winds me up that a system whose survival depends upon screwing over nine-tenths of the world’s population is somehow seen as the most pragmatic and realistic way to run a country, any country.
That is all.
Seen this way by who? By a ruling class who gets wealthier as the rest [...]
Reformists
Don’t get me wrong, there’s many sincere reformists trying bring about change. Whether it’s organizations like DailyKos who believe the Democratic Party can be reformed, or tilting further leftward, groups like Democracy Now and Media Channel, they present lots of analysis, some advocacy, but rarely calls to action.
Plus, they bizarrely assume our current political crisis [...]
Babylon burning
Shrine attack brings civil war warning
“Babylon burning / And they got no water / Fire, fire / And they got no water” is the lyric to a venerable reggae song, “Babylon” being their word for the culture they stand in opposition to.
Now it really is Babylon that’s burning, the attacks and counter-attacks on religious shrines [...]
The Pendulum swings left
There have been three major periods of radicalization in the U.S. since 1900. During all of them the Left made huge gains. Yes, these periods were followed by reaction and rightwing repression. In fact we’ve just emerged from such a noxious era. The pendulum is starting to move leftward again. The populace increasingly does [...]
April 8 March in DC
From the ANSWER Coalition
Stop the Threats Against Venezuela and Cuba!
On Saturday, April 8, thousands of people from cities all over the United States will travel by bus and car caravan to march on the White House. This demonstration comes at a critical time as the Bush administration is moving aggressively to overthrow the democratically elected [...]
