I FORMED AN INCURABLE addiction at a tender age, which speaks to my residence here at the asylum. The illness lacks a formal name, but it is a compulsion to explore matters beyond our grasp. Whatever the virtue of being consumed with fundamental issues, it is not a healthy pursuit in a force-fed culture. Socrates [...]
BY WILL PATCHING The hapless Gordon. What opportunistic politics devolve into. May 16th, 2008 So, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is considering hosting a TV reality show in an effort to boost his image. The idea was mooted in some confidential Cabinet briefing notes recently photographed while being carelessly paraded by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. The [...]
By Will Patching “Sinn Fein was the political front for Catholic terrorists, the self-styled Irish Republican Army (IRA), whose aim was to remove the British from Northern Ireland, at times using indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. Its leaders proudly declared they would achieve their aims with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle [...]
ORIGINALLY AT CHRIS FLOYD‘s BLOG, to whom we offer our thanks. Dateline: Monday, 26 May 2008 Here’s a thought experiment. Try to imagine a major American political figure boldly calling on Europe to break with the United States, unilaterally lift the blockage on Gaza and negotiate directly with Hamas, the democratically-elected government of Palestine. Share [...]
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power DATELINE: May 23rd, 2008 Well here it is folks-the great unraveling so many of us have been forecasting during the past five years as we’ve read the tea leaves and researched the unprecedented convergence of myriad natural, political, economic, and environmental realities. As most of you know, I’m traveling, [...]
‘Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil’ (Exodus 23:2). Over the course of his long career, BERTRAND RUSSELL made significant contributions, not just to logic and philosophy, but to a broad range of other subjects including education, history, political theory and religious studies. In addition, many of his writings on a wide variety of topics in [...]
BY VIOLA RANSEL | Simulpost with Thomas Paine’s Corner G8 leaders at the 2001 G8 summit…. 5/25/08 These bastards have been around the block before. This time the parasites planned ahead. Laws have been passed. Detention camps built for when their feeding on us drives us over the edge. This time around there won’t be [...]
Confused, not thought through By David Walsh ORIGINALLY AT WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE FIRST PUBLISHED ON 27 March 2006 || Email the author V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue, written by the Wachowski Brothers, based on characters created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue and written by the [...]
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