Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Si! Is One-Eyed British Warmongrel Nick Griffin Looking Already Like Prime Minister Material
I am being all very entertained this week by the amusing kerfuffle taking place in “Great” Britain where the liberal atheist communists at the BBC have taken seriously the idea of free speech for any old idiot and have invite onto their political [...]
I think - but would be happy to be corrected - that one of the weaknesses with the Left is a shortage of ambitious and feasible policy ideas to change a key source of inequality in Western economies: the scale of the inequality in the income that those who are in employment receive for their [...]
Khmer Rouge Strippergram | Top 30 Apps for the iPhone
Jon Prenderghast of Khmer Rouge Strippergram lists the Top 30 Apps for the iPhone for the week ending October 17th, 2009.
Some of my favourites are:
4: Speciiii: Lost or broken your glasses? Enter the speckifications and dimensions into this app and place your phone on the [...]
Director Neil Blomkamp constructs a sci-fi allegory to explore the violence, cruelty and exploitation of South African segregation and poverty, apartheid and after. The result, however, is an awkward
collage of documentary, body-horror, corporate exposé, and action movie.
In 1989, intergalactic refugees arrive at Johannesburg, South Africa, and, much like their earthly counterparts, they are confined to [...]
Ideologies are not issued self-developed and completed into the aether of the idea rather they are generated by the development of specific historic processes in the real world. Ideas are not primary but secondary reflections back into reality through the mediation of the mind. Material reality is primary in the evolution of thought just as [...]
Dayschool on Capitalist Crisis and the Left Alternative
Saturday November 7th, 10am – 4pm
Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin
Hosted by the Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite
Minister Lenihan warned the cuts proposed by An Bord Snip Nua would be a picnic compared to what future governments would have to implement.’
As we are all frog-marched down to the Finance Minister’s picnic, let’s see what effect cutting Child Benefit will have. For all the indications are that this payment is in the firing [...]
Tax Justice International in Luxembourg | Let’s Make Money
And so to the Grand Duchy for lively discussions with activists and the general public, plus a quiet exchange of views with bankers, topped off with a screening of Erwin Wagenhoffer’s powerful Let’s Make Money.
There’s a hint of the Mr Nasty attitude during the Q&A session after [...]
As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street on Pace to Hand Out Record $140B in Employee Bonuses
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has topped 10,000 for the first time in a year as JP Morgan Chase reported massive profits in the third quarter. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal is reporting that major U.S. banks and securities [...]
ei: From boycotts to Bilin: An interview with Jonathan Cook
JC: The "striking similarity" is in Israel's treatment of the Palestinians inside the areas it controls. It has sought to apply a very sophisticated form of divide and rule. From the outset inside Israel, Palestinian citizens were referred to not only as Arabs, to undermine their [...]
