I’ve posted this before, and I’ll probably post it again, but with the coming elections here in Germany this is an important reminder of what the SPD (the Social Democrat Party) actually stands for. It was the SPD and the Greens that went to war against Kosovo, a war as …
So, it’s been eight years since a group of misguided lunatics killed themselves and a lot of innocent people to punish the United States of America for its crimes in the Middle East. The crimes, of course, were and are completely real and terrible; the idiotic irony that the hijackers …
Meanwhile, the mighty forces of peaceful Europe and the Obama-changed United States are fighting for the good of the people of Afghanistan by killing as many of them as they can, banks are growing more powerful than ever before, and huge amounts of low-wage workers are constantly having their rights …
So, the supposedly “liberal” government of Gordon Brown (whom a whole lot of people are still fawning about) has now decided that they need new legislation to protect social housing from evil immigrants. [from Britain: Government housing bill promotes nationalist “local homes” policy] Introducing the government’s new legislative programme for …
Street Sweeper Social Club, the band formed by Tom “The Nightwatchman” Morello and Boots Riley, is now streaming their whole album on their MySpace page. There is only one word for Street Sweeper Social Club, and that is awesome. Like Morello’s Nightwatchman, this is revolutionary music: it fills you with …
As I just summarized it to my friend Julian: EPIC FAIL With everything that’s going on worldwide, the so-called Left could’ve pulled it together and made a difference… but no, we have to keep to generic comments about women’s rights and half-hearted statements about controlled capitalism. It has never been …
From Wikinews: Israel’s Knesset considers ‘loyalty’ law The first law, the ‘Loyalty Oath Law’, makes any “call to negate Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state, where the content of such publication would have a reasonable possibility of causing an act of hatred, disdain or disloyalty” a criminal offense …
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.” – Thomas Carlyle Today is Memorial Day in …
Well, today’s my birthday (and Mr. T‘s). I was going to post about all the cool presents I got (including Christopher Lee’s autobiography Lord of Misrule, An Other Cup and Star Maker) but then I read that the US Senate has voted to block the closing down of Guantanamo. The …
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” – Malcolm X Today is the birthday of one of the bravest and …
