Obama is for big business not the jobless

Cornel West

9/11, the unofficial story

9/11 Fraud: David Ray Griffin

CBC: the real force behind the attacks was not Osama Bin Laden, but the U.S. government itself.

Moyers, Moore and Maddow are the Most Influential Progressives

Race and Manifest Destiny

Paloma de Papel. Pelicula peruana

the two-party system is an artificial creation of a network of laws that are designed to exclude as a plausible winning alternative any party other than the Democratic or Republican .

Reading List 2009

Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in A Two-Party Tyranny

Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges

Das Kapital of the growing anti-corporate movement

el 50% de los peruanos no creen en la democracia y los que creen lo hacen a regañadientes

Levi-Strauss (1908- 2009) El fin de una era

Hollywood Last Supper

Asaltan Facebook

After Ripping Clinton And McCain, Obama Embraces Their Policies

Naomi Klein attacks the capitalisation of hope

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole and leave the tar sand in the land

the happiest US States

Hawaii and Louisiana are at the top. The analysis reveals also that happiness levels closely correlate with objective factors such as congestion and air quality across the US’s 50 states.

Arundhati Roy

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers.

Facebook

“We decided we spent way too much time obsessing over Facebook and it would be better if we took a break from it,”

For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow

Blown Opportunity

cell phones radiation can cause brain cancer.

Naomi Klein with Laura Flanders

Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 12, 2007

Naomi Klein

Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the American left—what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago.

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein talked about her upbringing in the United States and Canada and the influence of her parents on her activism.

The Kyoto Protocole is dead

Climate shame

Cornel West

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. TheNew York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision.

The Century Of The Self

psychological techniques in public relations

Tzevetan Todorov

The Morals of History

Tzvetan Todorov

Tzevetan Todorov

Todorov's greatest contribution to literary theory was his defining of the fantastic, the fantastic uncanny, and the fantastic marvelous. Todorov defines the fantastic as being any event that happens in our world that seems to be supernatural. Upon the occurrence of the event, we must decide if the event was an illusion or whether it is real and has actually taken place. Todorov uses Alvaro from Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureuxas an example of a fantastic event. Alvaro must decide whether the woman he is in love with is truly a woman or if she is the devil.

Oliver Stone

"Greed is good"

PUT THE FUN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS

Become the Bike Bloc

Harry Belafonte

Al Jazeera. Fault Lines

Health care reform: Obama's big sellout

Something's not right here. One year after the great collapse of our financial system, Wall Street is back on top while our politicians dither. As for health care reform, you're about to be forced to buy insurance from companies whose stock is soaring, and that's just dandy with the White House.

NOAM CHOMSKY: “The Culture of Imperialism”

“If Bush Was in Kindergarten, Obama Is in First Grade”–

Indian Environmentalist Sunita Narain on US Climate Policy

Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno spent some time living in Hollywood, with access to close observation of the culture industry. He argued that popular media, the product of the culture industry works to preserve capitalism's dominance by keeping the population passive. The pleasure offered by standardized mass media is illusory, and strictly in response to false needs created by culture. Adorno felt that people who were passively satisfied by products of the culture industry were politically apathetic. This system was proof to Adorno of capitalism's further entrenchment, the status quo being secured by culture, rather than strictly by economics.

Afghanistan: 68,000 US troops - 121,000 contractors

At present, there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors in Afghanistan. According to a report this week from the Congressional Research Service, as a result of the coming surge of 30,000 troops inAfghanistan, there may be up to 56,000 additional contractors deployed. But here is another group of contractors that often goes unmentioned: 3,600 State Department contractors and 14,000 USAID contractors. That means that the current total US force in Afghanistan is approximately 189,000 personnel (68,000 US troops and 121,000 contractors). And remember, that’s right now. And that, according to McCaskill, is a conservative estimate. A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan.

Quotes

Its a shame that global warming is not melting idiocy and obstinacy!

"They never freed us. They only took the chain from around our neck and put it on our ankles": Rassool Snyman, South Africa antiapartheid activist -quoted in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.

United Corporations of America

Las cosas son siempre más complejas y se resisten a ser clasificadas según esquemas binarios simplificadores

Yes we can (stay in Iraq)

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But everyone is not entitled to their own facts.” US Senator Patrick Moynihan

“Philosophy is empty without the natural sciences, and the natural sciences are blind without philosophy.”

Segun la leyenda la dıosa Cıbeles se convırtıo en la dıosa Artemısa. La diosa Artemısa se convırtıo en Dıana y Dıana en la Vırgen Marıa.