September 2009
12 posts
“Nobody will be able to hold back the great Latin American and Caribbean...”
– Hugo Chavez
Chris Hedges | Stop Begging Obama & Get Mad →
The right wing is not wrong. It is not the problem. We are the problem. If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are...
The Provocateur, his Protégé, and the Toppling of... →
The story of Otto Reich’s role in fomenting the June coup d’etat in Honduras is not a brief one.
This piece by Machetera is the best piece of journalism that I’ve read in a long, long time. The two-part article looks at the real reasons behind the Honduran coup, not the bullshit the corporate media continue to feed us about Zelaya ‘turning into a dictator’ by changing term...
“My argument cannot be against selection, simplification, emphasis, which are...”
– Howard Zinn
— A People’s History of the United States, 3rd edition, pages 8 & 9.
“Journalists ought to be agents of truth, not the courtiers of power… In every...”
– John Pilger
John Pilger - Freedom Next Time (lecture) →
“Whenever the BLA (Baluch Liberation Army) kills somebody there’s always payback...”
– Karlos Zurutuza — Balochistan, another under-the-radar war in Central Asia
(via @fieldreports)
“[The US military budget]… doesn’t include the actual defence of the...”
– Chalmers Johnson
“It’s all in the game.”
– Everyone in The Wire.
“I think if John Pilger wasn’t alive someone would have to invent him.”
– Richard Keeble
US's 'arc of instability' just gets bigger | Pepe... →
A great piece by Pepe Escobar that looks at the US’s plans for Latin America.
Escobar is easily one of my favourite journalists, and if you haven’t heard of him before you should look up his “Pipelinistan” articles at TomDispatch. They are enlightening about a range of things, but especially about the war in (on) Afghanistan. (“Pipelinistan goes AfPak”)
(via...