This morning I woke to see every major newspaper and blog picking up on a non-story and giving it front page prominence – the supposed admission by an « Iranian politician » (later upgraded to « top politician » and … Lire / Read
World News Reports Now Based on Facebook Comments, Overheard Snippets in Laundromat
Where is the EVIDENCE that Iran had anything to do with the bombings in India, or Georgia (where the bomb did not explode)? Where is the evidence that the Iranian government were responsible for the latest incident in Bangkok? The … Lire / Read
ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL: New Rules for Lifeboat Earth
Now here’s something to think about.
The lawyer for the Norwegian shooter who set off bombs in Oslo killing eight followed by a rampage at a kids’ camp in which he gunned down 70 people, has reported today that the … Lire / Read
IF YOU THINK THIS IS ALARMIST, YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION: SOLIDARITY IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD
For thirty years, the U.S. citizen has been conditioned little by little, to accept less. Less protection from unions, less protection from polluters, less protection from bankers and the financial sector, less actual work from the government, less leadership from … Lire / Read
Joan Scott et l’histoire des genres…
Dans un article paru d’abord en 1986 et qui a profondément transformé la perception de la discipline historique, Scott s’attaque à démystifier et théoriser le concept même de « genre » en tant qu’outil analytique, mais aussi en tant que … Lire / Read
Bipartisanship, the Last Refuge of A Scoundrel
What was all that, anyway? An artful dodge, a handshake offered for show, concealing far more than anyone who thought Democrats and Republicans to be different breeds could imagine; the ruse of ‘bipartisanship’ has made the saying, “nothing ventured, nothing … Lire / Read
Mea Culpa, mensonge et traversée du désert…
Voilà près de cinq mois que je délaisse ce blogue. La cause en est simple, je viens de faire la traversée du désert sur deux sujets de lectures qui ont durablement endommagé ma matière grise. Bien que fort intéressant pour … Lire / Read
Have The Bastards Got You Down For The Count, America?
Is anybody out there mad as hell? Is anybody out there not going to take it anymore? I don’t say you have to like it, but you’re taking it, all right. The entire structure of power generated by those looking … Lire / Read
The Story of “O”: Submission to a Cruel Minority, and the Betrayal of America’s Hope for “Change We Can Believe In”
In one of then-Senator Barack Obama’s first campaign speeches (Feb 2007), he remembered his early days in Illinois, telling a constituency that had been battered and bamboozled by two terms of the Bush Administration, that “it was here we learned … Lire / Read
La guerre, la guerre, toujours la guerre…
Voici comment David A. Bell qualifie la guerre dans on ouvrage qui vise à repenser notre vision du concept de guerre totale à travers la Révolution française et le règne de Napoléon : « It is something ordinary, wheter we … Lire / Read