Henry A. Giroux’s tribute to Howard Zinn | Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered
"I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and rarely met or read any working-class intellectuals. After reading James Baldwin, hearing William Kunstler and Stanley Aronowitz give talks, I caught a glimpse of what it meant to occupy such a fragile, contradictory [...]

ONE | Drop Haitian Debt
As Haiti rebuilds from this disaster, please work to secure the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s $1 billion debt and ensure that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the form of grants, not debt-incurring loans. Sign the petition.

The Real News | Haiti and the ‘Devil’s Curse’
Excellent 12 minute news segment from the Real News on Haiti’s history of poverty, which includes a critical examination of how mainstream media is reporting this history without mentioning the impact that various foreign interventions has had on the country.

According to Peter Hallward, author of [...]

k-punk: Spectres of revolution
Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism, is talking about "Revolution" :
"So let's be clear. I'm very far from saying that nothing can ever change. There has been some discussion of whether Capitalist Realism is a pessimistic book. For me, it isn't pessimistic, but it is negative. The pessimism is already embedded in [...]

Translating David Brooks - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
A friend of mine sent a link to Sunday’s David Brooks column on Haiti, a genuinely beautiful piece of occasional literature. Not many writers would have the courage to use a tragic event like a 50,000-fatality earthquake to volubly address the problem of nonwhite laziness and [...]

UK company law is terrorism’s friend | Prem Sikka | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Over the years, I have conducted many investigations into dubious corporate practices for newspapers, radio and television programmes and the trail always leads to tax havens, which hold no public information about the individuals behind those companies. The registered address is [...]

The myth of the immigrant exodus from Ireland | Ireland after NAMA
Reports on the exodus of recent immigrants from Ireland serve an important political purpose. The Irish government has long acted under the illusion of temporary immigrants, motivated solely by economic considerations. When work dries up, the assumption is that these economic migrants will leave [...]

Geoffrey O’Brien | The Persistent Pleasures of Eric Rohmer | The New York Review of Books Blog
I think it will become clear that Rohmer was one of a handful of really great filmmakers of the last half-century. I can’t think of a greater. His movies will be seen as aspects of a single enterprise in [...]

Full text of Lenihan statement on banks - The Irish Times - Tue, Jan 19, 2010
There has been some reference to the Dirt Inquiry as a possible model for the inquiry into the financial crisis. But the fact is that the investigative work in that inquiry was done by the C&AG. An Oireachtas Committee cannot [...]