Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Book Review: Words of a Rebel, Peter Kropotkin (1885, this edition published in 1997)
History is interwoven with the plight of our times - a hereditary restriction of the masses which allows the supremacist authority of the rulers. Our disassociation from past struggles has ensured that humanity, subjugated through capitalism, has betrayed the nature of revolution. Capitalism [...]
As the election campaign in the 26 Counties gathers speed, and TV debates show clearly how weak the politicians who aspire to be leaders are, a number of important events likely to have very serious consequences for Ireland are taking place internationally - with scant attention paid to them by either the media or the [...]
Real News | The Afghan Chessboard
Pepe Escobar says that the Afghan presidential election is largely designed to legitimize the US and NATO occupation of parts of the country not controlled by the Taliban. But in order to establish an energy corridor from the Caspian to South Asia, bypassing Russia, Escobar argues, the grand American strategy [...]
Victor Pelevin - Faber & Faber, 2008
Towards the end of the film The Lives of Others, the dissident writer Georg Dreyman, who has out-lasted the Stasi and its state to find a comfortable perch in the new Germany, happens across his one-time persecutor from the DDR hierarchy. The impotent apparatchik can’t resist taunting Dreyman - [...]
