On MLK day I have adopted the practice of posting excerpts and full text from some of King’s lesser-known speeches to try to recapture the radicalism he represents in the face of his domestication at the hands of American elites and authorities. This year, I’m going to do something different. Chris Hedges has written an [...]
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Today is the day USAmericans generally refer to as “Thanksgiving,” a day that is said to be set aside for recognition of the gifts for which we are grateful, often marked by gathering with family and friends and feasting. Most of us have at least some level of awareness that the so-called “first Thanksgiving” between [...] On this day in 1973 a US-backed coup d’etat deposed Salvador Allende, Chile’s legitimately-elected president, in favor of a military government headed by Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime would become one of the most brutal and oppressive in recent history. Key players in creating the conditions that led to the coup included executives for Pepsi-Cola and [...] Tags: 9/11, Chile, CIA, coup, terrorism |
Leave a comment  Email This Post |  Trackback URL |  Print This Post On this day in 1945, the first-ever nuclear weapon to be used in combat was dropped above Hiroshima, Japan. 70,000 were killed immediately, a number that would double from the effects of bomb-related injuries and radiation poisoning within the year. By 1950, 60,000 more had died from bomb-related effects, bringing the toll to 200,000. A lot [...] People need to to read things like this before they ignorantly ramble about how great biofuels are. At the bottom of page one it talks about the possibility of the Amazon rain forest turning into something like a savannah or even a desert. It wouldn’t be the first time human deforestation has caused a vital and [...] “The blood shed on the European continent in the course of the last three hundred years bears no proportion to the national result of the events. In the end, France had remained France, Germany Germany, Poland Poland, and Italy Italy. What dynastic egotism, political passion and patriotic blindness have attained in the way of apparently [...] This morning, my grandfather sent me an email “action alert” from the American Family Association urging protest of the recent Berkeley, California City Council resolution that declared the downtown Marine recruiting office “unwanted” and urged the recruiters to leave town. This article does not respond to that issue, but rather to the subject line of [...] If anyone hasn’t read NSPD 51/HSPD 20, they definitely should. It basically states that the president can take over all functions of the government as well as some private functions (read: corporate business interests) in the event of a “national emergency”. It was released May 9 of last year. For some reason every time I think [...] Michael Cline has written an excellent article over at Jesus Manifesto. An excerpt: The charge of hatred is enmeshed with the idea of religious piety in ancient Rome. To be a good citizen in the Roman Empire meant to participate in the civic life of the state. The gladiator games, the burning of incense to gods, [...] It’s hard to believe, given the association of Thanksgiving with feasting and making merry with family and friends, but Thanksgiving actually grew out of a European tradition of taking days to fast and pray and humble one’s self before God that was carried on by English immigrants to the new colonies (particularly by the Puritans, [...] |
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