Posted in United States on Sep 28th, 2011 3 Comments »
Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.
When people talk about the movement and you mention the black power movement you talk about the movement from the sense of the publicity around it, around the violence around it, you know, but when you think of it as a re-imagining of the process of […]
Posted in events, United States, Economy, Ireland on Sep 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Audio recording of Professor Fred Magdoff’s presentation at the Greaves School on Friday (9 September).
The title of the talk is: The international economic crisis – making the periphery pay.
The session was chaired by councillor Catherine Connolly, Galway City Council and barrister.
Fred Magdoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and […]
Posted in United States, Working Class on Aug 16th, 2011 No Comments »
The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has indeed been criminalized in America.
Perhaps the constant suspicions of drug use and theft that I encountered in low-wage workplaces should have alerted me to the fact that, when you […]
Posted in United States, US Politics on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in United States, Iraq on Apr 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
The U.S. army loves video war games.
Find out why.
[For more on this see Collateral Murder. The text below is taken from the YouTube posting]
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache […]
Posted in United States, War on Mar 17th, 2010 No Comments »
This comes via Democracy Now! (headlines clip, 17 March 2010, 12:05mins).
“A prominent Irish peace activist says he’s had his US visa revoked without explanation. The activist, Edward Horgan, is the co-founder of ShannonWatch, which has documented the use of Ireland’s Shannon Airport in the US kidnapping practice known as “extraordinary rendition.” Horgan is a former […]
Posted in United States, History on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Posted in United States, UK Politics, US Politics, Health on Aug 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
Following on from Graham Linehan’s defence of the NHS - and by extension his attack on the American right and their absolute hatred of not-for-profit health care - here’s the great man himself talking with Channel Four.
(By the way, Twitter is to me what VHS was to my father. Apparently it’s all the rage […]
Posted in United States, Television on Jul 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is just the weirdest thing. It’s the final episode in the series, Deadliest Warrior, where the IRA and the Taliban are pitched in mortal combat. Check out the IRA “experts.” One, Skoti Collins, is listed as an “IRA descendant,” whatever the fuck that means, while the other, Peter Crowe, is a Blues singer/guitarist based […]
Posted in United States, Marx on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
David Montgomery, now in his eighties, is one of the founders of new labor history in the U.S. He’s a contemporary of E.P. Thompson, and his works include the seminal The Fall of the House of Labor, and Workers’ Control in America. Below is an audio of his 45 minute presentation at the WCSA conference, […]
