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I don’t really care what happens on Fox news or the other networks, I find my own news. Talking about Bill O’Reilly is just a more political form of gossip.
BUT….I do love to see biggots self destruct.
Obama: Bush Sr. Did Great Job in First Gulf War
Obama is far from anti war. He doesn’t want to stop war, he just wants to wage it more effectively.
Notice is closing remarks are “That’s the kind of foreign policy I want to pursue”, war with backing from other imperialist nations like France.
Our friends at the Coalition On Political Assassinations have uploaded a CBS report on the assassination of RFK. New acoustic evidence has surfaced proving that Sirhan Sirhan could not have shot Robert Kennedy alone. They have a conference on the assassination coming up in Los Angeles in June.
www.politicalassassinations.com
Paul Robeson was a great man whose talents and reach extended beyond the realm of political activism.
The rest of this documentary can be found on youtube.
Chavez raises Venezuela minimum wage 30 per cent - 01 May 08
Chavez increases the minimum wage by 30% at a time when inflation is running at 20%, this results in an actual increase in wages of 10%.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written about the suffering and class complaints of the working class in America during the Vietnam War. My favorite picture in this montage is the protester holding the sign: “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A Nigger.” That’s a profound statement.
As an American, living in the times I live now, we are certainly suffering these problems. With the Jeremiah Wright fiasco, I wonder whether we’re ever going to have real racial healing in this country.
Marvin Gaye’s brother fought in the Vietnam War. It greatly offended Marvin Gaye’s conscience that something like this could happen. Poor people, driven to absolute penury in the US, were conscripted to go fight Asian people they’d never even heard of, who were also destitute and poor because of the Chinese, French, Japanese, and American colonial oppression. If that doesn’t offend your conscience, I don’t know what will.
The Iraq War also offends me in nearly the same way. There is no conscription. The rich avoid service now. The poor go off and fight their wars for them. Wars for oil. Wars for empire. But no war to end the suffering of the poor here. No war to build hospitals or give us health care. Only wars to kill and maim. Only wars to steal from the treasury.
These things should offend your conscience, too. The richest country in the world can’t feed all its people or give them a half-way decent standard of living. This is a country that thinks of itself as a Christian nation but seems to ignore what the gospels about feeding the poor. This country thinks it’s a city on a hill, but it’s not. It’s a third world country with a lot more arms than it needs.
In this crude anti-Communist propaganda piece, the Communist shows the children that Jesus can’t bring them candy, but Fidel Castro can! Boy those Communists are evil! And stupid! Good thing we’d never fall for that! Because we all know that Ronald Reagan and Jesus can give us all the candy in the world!
Try not to laugh too hard! It reminds me of Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi”!
Penn and Teller are libertarians. I usually don’t agree with much of their analysis.
I used to get Showtime and would watch this show in horror.
But this year they decided to do a show on the free Tibet movement, and their guest expert on the issue was none other than Michael Parenti, the political scientist, historian, and socialist author.
Enjoy this, because this is one of the few times that someone of this stature has appeared on US mainstream TV.
“Free Tibet” sounds nice, but it’s really a distraction. If you live in the US or live in another country in the coalition of the willing/bribed, you should be far more concerned about the war in Iraq, which is far worse in terms of the human cost. And if you’re progressive, why do you align with disgusting feudal overlords? This is as true with Tibet as it is with Afghanistan.
Hollywood is good at making stupid movies that defend reactionary interests in this fashion. Seven Years in Tibet has little to do with reality. However, you can be just as easily fooled with the new film Charlie Wilson’s War, which tells half the story about the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Bad things happened during that time.
Here’s the trailer:
This film shows how right wing financial interests in the US, the oil kingdoms of the Middle East, and Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan (who killed the first Prime Minister Bhutto– this is mentioned in the film but excused!) financed the mujaheddin to put some lead in commies. And it does so in a patriotic and rollicking manner. What’s missing, of course, is what the heck are the Soviets doing in Afghanistan? It is assumed that’s what commies do to expand their empire.
William Blum gives us some historical analysis of the conflict.
The film is disgusting. It is a moribund attempt at history, and it fails miserably to put these things into a proper context.
I have a simple question for you on both of these case studies: would you rather have these people live in under imperfect socialist or, in the case of Tibet in the PRC, quasi-socialist regimes or in absolute poverty, ruled by religious fanatics?
Neither China nor the Soviet Union are perfect socialist societies (and China has given up on socialism), but both replaced truly reactionary orders that were far worse for the vast majority of their citizens.
