Quotable: Kieran Bonner on the banality of evil
“We are not suffering from a secret cabal of evil masterminds who plotted to bring down the world economy. The problem was not secrecy. On the contrary, the ballooning debt…
Fascism Without Swastikas
The True Story of Che Guevara
A documentary about the life and death of the Argentine hero of the Cuban Revolution. Features Jon Lee Anderson, the author of the best Che bio by far.
Miami New Times fails again
Christ, what is it with news sources out of Miami? They may be close to the Caribbean, but for all their proximity, they still can’t report on Latin America for…
Fear of a white shirt
A whiteshirt (the now infamous Anthony Bologna, police inspector, NYPD) pepper-sprays a group of peaceful women protesters at Occupy Wall Street. You can hear one of the blue-shirted officers say…
But none dare call it fascism…
…because it’s DIFFERENT when Israelis do it: A mosque in an Arab village in the Galilee, northern Israel, was set on fire in the early hours of Monday morning in…
Ker-SPLAT!!!
How to deal with privatization and fascism in your midst? Take a lesson from Chilean students. They’ve been on strike for years against it, and this year things are coming…
Teabaggers come to Ontario. Ontarians properly horrified.
“Canadian Klansman” tapestry by Barbara Heller. O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and…
When lynching passes for “justice”
Last night, the world witnessed a modern-day judicially sanctioned lynching. Troy Davis was executed last night at 11:08 local time, under heavy protest, in the state of Georgia, by a…
Honduras: 190 years of independence, and still a banana republic
Courtesy of YVKE Mundial, an anniversary that could have gone a whole lot better: On the 190th anniversary of the independence of Honduras, former president and now co-ordinator of the…
Anders Breivik at the scene of his crime
A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via…
Putin asks a pertinent question
Does anyone have a pertinent answer for him? I think someone does: As usual, it’s the OIL, stupid! Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald summarizes why no decent person should support what NATO…
Is the LAHT a bunch of Koch-suckers?
I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist…
Economics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots
Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx looks at London
If the Stumpy Cat is meowing and pawing at my leg, I know there is something she wants me to address. And sure enough, our cyber-kitty friend has found several…
“Night Boat to Gaza”
Humberto Da Silva analyzes Israel’s “successes” — and FAILURES — in its ongoing effort to slowly strangle Gaza.
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Clan Murdoch circling the wagons
Did I hear a meow? Why yes, I did. And look who’s here! The Stumpy Cat has some juicy tidbits for us about the ongoing saga of a right-wing media…
MariCori scares a prairie dog
María Corina Machado, would-be chief nemesis of the current president of Venezuela (and confirmed putschist), has announced her Sarah Palin-style candidacy… Reacción de una Ardilla frente al anuncio de María…
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Courtesy of Roger Ebert, a gem from the past. The BBC’s original adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel. Enjoy!
The Herrera case: Negative results in the first round of testing
One chapter ends and another begins in the ongoing mystery of baby-theft and illicit adoptions in Argentina. This one, unfortunately, offers no easy answers for the time being: The DNA…