All traditional standards and beliefs are shattered in a severe economic crisis. The moral order is turned upside down. The honest and industrious are wiped out while the gangsters, profiteers and speculators walk away with millions. The elite will retreat, as Naomi Klein has written in The Shock Doctrine, into […]
Poverty
Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, […]
So where did you spend Passover? Tens of thousands of Israelis were in Sinai. They ignored the Counter-Terrorism Bureau’s warning, yet returned home safe and sound. Other Israelis – wait until you hear this – visited Cairo. I repeat: Cairo! They too returned tired but happy. They too did not […]
Key: Go fuck yourselves New Zealand PRIME Minister John Key unveiled National’s controversial new Fuck Everybody policy this morning during his morning press conference at the Beehive. A triumphant Key, flanked by several large men in sunglasses, took the podium and boldly announced the National/ACT government’s plans for the next […]
click here to watch the film via information clearing house and google (Big Brother). A Film By Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain A documentary made in real time of what was probably history’s shortest-lived coup d’état. It’s a unique profile of political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man […]
[ h / t : Nat ] Using archived stock footage, I tried to paint a picture of the tranquility of everyday life being interrupted by chaotic events such as war. [ yeah -that- chaotic event ] Majority of the war stock footage is from Iwo Jima documentation and the […]
[ This is what Freedom & Democracy looks like ] Millions of Iraqis exist below the poverty line in a country which floats on oil and earned more than $60 billion from oil sales last year, said Mahdi Muhsen, the director of the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology. […]
Nine people were killed and more than 400 wounded after violence broke out between protesters and security forces in Bangkok . Thailand’s anti-government demonstrations escalated today, leaving nine people dead, including a journalist. A series of street battles broke when troops tried to seize back control of the parts of […]
Of all the misunderstandings that guide US foreign policy – including foreign commercial policy – perhaps the most important and long-lasting is the failure to recognise or understand what national self-determination means to most people in the world. Or why it might be important to them. Our leaders seem to […]