Posted in Black Magic, Sarkozy, France on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
[ Photo / Text extract from ‘Marianne’ magazine ]
Dublin Opinion appears to be passing through a negative motivation system at present *. We’re all too devastated at the performance of our shares portfolios, I suspect. I have myself managed to just pull my head out of the mental sludge thanks to two factors. […]
Posted in US Election, US Politics, politics/world on Oct 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Thursday’s debate was one where Sarah Palin, the governor, went up against Sarah Palin, the media moron - and Palin the governor edged ahead on points. Whether that will translate into swing voter support for Palin the VP candidate is another thing.
Anyhow, the last part of the Katie Couric interview is now available on Youtube, […]
Posted in Georgia, NATO, Geography, War, US Politics, UK Politics, Russia on Aug 22nd, 2008 6 Comments »
The video below is taken from a stop the war coalition meeting in London, 14 August 2008. Mark Almond gives his analysis of the ongoing conflict. (and before anyone makes the joke, no, it’s not THAT Mark Almond.) This is from stopwar.org.uk:
MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus, provided the […]
Posted in Neo-liberalism, UK Politics, Progressive Democrats, History, politics/world on Jul 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
This clip dates from 1948, and was made to explain the welfare state to “Charley”, who thinks it’s all a “bleedin´waste of money.” The title is: “Charley’s March of Time.”
Enjoy.
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, satire, France on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DISCLAMER : A week old post I couldn’t finish/put up due to dodgy French wiring having frazzled my ADSL modem - whenever will they let those competent Polish electricians in ??
The virulence of visual satire on the continent, or at least on the Latin part of it, has already come up on this blog. Being […]
Posted in Television, Nicolas Sarkozy, France on Jun 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
[PPDA - As ‘Guignols de l’info’ Presenter via infos-du-net.com ]
As I wait for my copy of this week’s ‘Charlie Hebdo’ to arrive (containing, no doubt some wry and raw observations on our recent No vote) I am reminded of a news story that held the French media’s attention for a couple of days […]
Posted in South America, politics/world on May 22nd, 2008 7 Comments »
More on the Interpol report on the supposed finding of laptops belonging to bombed FARC rebels. ‘What’s really happening with this dodgy laptop story’, asks Pepe Escobar. Forrest Hylton says its part of the US’s propaganda war against Hugo Chavez.
Lots more detail on the Interpol report here.
Posted in Israel, politics/world on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve recently become a fan of Jerry Haber’s blog Magnes Zionist. Jerry is an academic and Orthodox Jew who works in the US and Israel and takes grave exception to how the Israeli government are treating Palestinians.
The Magnes of the title refers to Judah Magnes, a Reform Rabbi, who originally worked in the US […]
Posted in US Election, Economy, politics/world on May 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Capitalism has had an incredible run — politically and culturally as well as economically — since the stagflation crisis of the 1970s. The resolution of that crisis required, as economists put it at the time, “reducing expectations” of the kind nurtured by the trade union militancy and welfare state gains of the 1960s. […]
Posted in Iran, Iraq, politics/world on Apr 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
Patrick Cockburn who has recently published Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq being interviewed by Pepe Escobar on the Real News Network.