Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Inside Job
“Inside Job" a sleek, briskly paced film, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. The betrayal of public trust and collective values.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Libros que mejor han contado América Latina
El reino de este mundo, de Alejo Carpentier; Leyendas de Guatemala, de Miguel Ángel Asturias; Canaima y Doña Bárbara de Rómulo Gallegos; La ciudad junto al río inmóvil, de Eduardo Mallea; La región más transparente, Cambio de piel o La Silla del Águila, de Carlos Fuentes; De donde son los cantantes, de Severo Sarduy; La vorágine, de José Eustasio Rivera; Yo, el supremo, de Augusto Roa Bastos; El señor presidente, de Miguel Ángel Asturias; El otoño del patriarca, Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez; La fiesta del Chivo, Conversación en La Catedral, de Mario Vargas Llosa; Pedro Páramo, El llano en llamas, de Juan Rulfo, Martín Fierro, de José Hernández; Don Segundo Sombra, de Ricardo Güiraldes;Popol Vuh, de los mayas; Las historias prohibidas de Pulgarcito, de Roque Dalton; El día señalado, de Manuel Mejía Vallejo; Tres tristes tigres, de Guillermo Cabrera Infante; Una cruz en la Sierra Maestra, de Demetrio Aguilera Malta; El hombre muerto, de Horacio Quiroga; Tierras del sinfin, Gabriela, clavo y canela, Tocaia Grande, de Jorge Amado Respiración artificial, de Ricardo Piglia; Santa evita, de Tomás Eloy Martínez... Y por supuesto libros de Borges, Donoso, Onetti, Edwards, Bolaño, César Vallejo, Fernando Vallejo, Sábato, William Ospina, Fogwill, Paz, Monsiváis, Poniatowska, De las Casas, Neruda, Mistral, Parra, Mutis, Pacheco, Cortázar, Huidrobro, Galeano, Lezama Lima, Martí, Darío..
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa: Mexico -dictadura perfecta
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
Steven Earl Jones is an American physicist. In the fall of 2006, amid controversy surrounding his work on the collapse of the World Trade Center (which Jones believes was destroyed by controlled demolition during the September 11 attacks), he was relieved of his teaching duties and placed on paid leave from Brigham Young University. He retired on October 20, 2006 with the status of Professor Emeritus.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
El pez en el agua
En El pez en el agua, Mario Vargas Llosa ofrece dos retratos, el del adolescente que se impuso la literatura como la mayor ambición de su vida y, el hombre que pulió la vocación política hasta que esta le dejó exhausto. Si Oliver Stone y los que buscan en Mario Vargas Llosa la confirmación de sus tópicos leyeran El pez en el agua a lo mejor le dejarían tranquilo, escribiendo o diciendo, con una honestidad muchas veces suicida, lo que le da la gana, incapaz de mentir y de mentirse a sí mismo. Pero, claro, hay gente que prefiere no leer para no caerse de sus lugares comunes.
Mario Vargas Llosa: La realidad y la utopía
Vargas Llosa: Sí, yo trabajo con una disciplina de oficinista. Trabajo casi siempre en las mañanas en mi departamento, donde esté, hasta las dos de la tarde y esas horas son para mí las más creativas. Las horas en que yo avanzo más inventando, escribiendo. En las tardes, por lo general, voy a una biblioteca. Me gusta mucho trabajar en bibliotecas, porque cambio de ambiente, de entorno. Para no tener claustrofobia, que es una cosa que me ocurre si me quedo en un sitio mucho tiempo.
Vargas Llosa en el corazón de las tinieblas
El libro de Conrad, sobre los horrores de la colonización del Congo, dio pie al Nobel de Literatura de 2010 para crear una novela excepcional: El sueño del celta. El autor hispano-peruano aborda las insondables contradicciones del mal a través de la extrema aventura vital de Roger Casement por África y el Amazonas.
Ya van 14: se suicidó otro obrero chino en fábrica del iPhone
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Phantom Left. Politics in America has become spectacle. It is another form of show business.
The liberal class complacency and lethargy diverts attention from corporate power. It perpetuates the myth of a democratic system. The phantom left functions as a convenient scapegoat. While we waste our time talking nonsense, the engines of corporate power—masked, ruthless and unexamined—happily devour the state.
Jon Stewart delivered a political message devoid of reality or content. The corruption of electoral politics by corporate funds and lobbyists, the naive belief that we can somehow vote ourselves back to democracy, was ignored for emotional catharsis. It ridiculed followers of the tea party without acknowledging that the pain and suffering expressed by many who support the movement are not only real but legitimate. It made fun of the buffoons who are rising up out of moral swamps to take over the Republican Party without accepting that their supporters were sold out by a liberal class, and especially a Democratic Party, which turned its back on the working class for corporate money.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
How Al Gore's Politics Alienated the Democratic Base
Nader and the Green Party oppose the Electoral College and support presidential elections based upon a popular nationwide vote. Gore and the Democrats, by contrast, supported the archaic and undemocratic Electoral College system. It is ironic, then, that the Democrats continue to blame Nader and the Greens for Bush's election that came as a result of an unfair electoral system that they supported and Greens opposed.
Gore was one of the most ardent Democratic supporters of Reagan's right-wing foreign policy agenda. In 1991, he was among the minority of Senate Democrats who supported the Gulf War. He was an outspoken supporter of a series of right-wing Israeli governments, opposing the Palestinians' right to statehood alongside Israel or even allowing Palestinians into the peace process.
Gore not only supported the death penalty, but made it far more difficult falsely convicted death row inmates to appeal their cases in federal courts. He supported the repeal of federal guarantees of assistance to poor children. He supported Federal Reserve policies of keeping wages low to prop up stock prices and taxing earnings from the stock market at lower rates then income from actual work.
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