From Media Culpa:It’s a sad day when Atlas Shrugs looks like better journalism than the Globe and Mail. Indeed. Interesting too is that this article appears to mark climate-change denier and all round corporate shill Lawrence Solomon’s ret…
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350 or bust: Time For The 99% To Occupy Wall Street, And For Wall Street To Stop Occupying Our Atmosphere
Powerful words from Bill McKibbon and 350.org on Occupy Wall Street: This morning, the folks standing up for the rest of us, and for a just and sustainable system, may be evicted from Zuccoti Square by a Canadian company, Brookfield Real Estate. Avaaz….
Continue reading350 or bust: “Occupy Wall Street” Gathers Steam
Three weeks in, the anti-corporate, pro-democracy “Occupy Wall Street” protests show no signs of losing momentum. Quite the opposite, in fact.The Occupy Wall Street website states: We will be in a thousand cities in this country by the en…
Continue readingCongrats to Tawakul Karman and friends
I was a little surprised at the Nobel Peace Prize awards for 2011. I had felt sure the winners would include a leader from Egypt’s Arab Spring revolt, the Arab Spring being the major peaceful achievement of the year and Egypt being the most prominent e…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Nobody Says "F*** You" Like Israel
As vile and racist as the regime is, you have to give them points for sheer chutzpah. Having denounced the Palestinians at the UN for not being serious about peace, Israeli PM Netanyahu has agreed two days later to build another 1,100 illegal buildings…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Palestinians Would Be Foolish To Trust Obama or Netanyahu
There’s an old saying that goes “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. I’m not sure what the appropriate riposte is when you’ve been scammed by the same dishonest brokers a hundred times over. That sadly describes the behaviour of th…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Turkey’s Snub & The Decline of Israel
Israeli blunder: Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as it’s being attacked by Israeli
commandos during attempt by flotilla to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip.
It was just over 20 years ago that I first became politically active around the first war against Ir…
CuriosityCat: Did Canada’s "Arab Spring" start in Quebec on May 2?
The answer is Yes if pollster Allan Gregg’sspeculations are right. The NDP has 33% – tied with the Tories:Jack Layton’s untimely death has triggered another orange wave across the country, a new poll suggests.The Harris/Decima survey conducted for The …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Good Gaddafi, Hello NATO
There will be much celebrating across Libya over the next several days even as the mop-up operations get under way. Of course, there’s no guarantee that this will be over for a while. It’s hard to know what kind of resistance to the rebel victory will …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Riotous Double Standards
Some riots we like, some not so much – by Oliver Heinrich
I’ve been swamped with work – and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I hope to post by Monday. In the meantime, my old friend Oliver sent along the above cartoon, hopefully th…
RedBedHead: Egypt, Revolution & Islamism
Secular protesters retake Tahrir Square after Islamist’s depart. They chant
for a secular state and against the military leadership.
While outside commentators have repeatedly suggested that Egypt’s revolution has stalled or gone backwards, it seem…
RedBedHead: Workers of Egypt: Strike! Occupy! Bring revolution to victory!
This is an awesome leaflet from a section of the Egyptian left on how to drive forward the revolution. It deserves wide distribution and is a taste of the ferment that is going on in Egypt at the moment. From here in Canada it can be hard to really und…
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BAHRAIN:TELL US WOMEN’S WORLD CUP PLAYERS TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS IN BAHRAIN:As this is being written the US Team at The Women’s World Football Cup has advanced to playing in the finals against Japan. With each advance th…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Egypt’s Revolution Continues To Burn
Lots of people hoped that everything would return to normal after the dictator Mubarak abdicated. They hoped that once the face at the top was changed people would be happy. None wanted this more than the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (S…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Taking Sides In Syria
The article below is a reprint of a longer article by Simon Assaf, a British-Lebanese socialist, that will appear in the upcoming issue of the British magazine Socialist Review. It’s an excellent overview of the history of Syria from its founding foll…
Continue readingRedBedHead: "Anti-Semitism" Committee A Rearguard Defence Of Israel’s Crimes
It’s nothing new really – the right wing, who can barely make their lips form the words “anti-racism”, spend boatloads of cash to “take a stand” against anti-Semitism. Except that what they’re really defending are the odious actions and policies of the…
Continue readingThe Arab spring—seeking a deeper democracy than ours?
Catherine Ashton, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, recently stated that the EU called for “deep democracy” in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt as they liberated themselves from dictators. She emphasi…
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Arab Spring leads to “Ivory Revolution” in Celesteville
After weeks of unprecedented protests another repressive dictator has been overthrown in the Middle East. King Babar (pictured above fleeing the country in a hot-air balloon with his cousin/wife) was ousted as monarch of the small African country of “Celesteville.” Inspired by … Continue reading →
Continue readingRedBedHead: NATO Has Already Lost In Libya
I’m certainly not one to believe that imperialist agendas, hideous in life, won’t rise zombie-like from the grave. The present air war by NATO to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is proof enough of that. The failure of NATO in Afghanistan, after ten …
Continue readingArt Threat: IDFA offers online films on “Arab Spring” – Docs on Middle East commemorate pro-democracy movement
Docs on the Middle East online for the first time.
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