October 30, 2008
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Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Colombia’s Political Horizon: The Rise of a New Left
Colombia’s President Uribe: ‘I deplore that Senator Obama’ Current Political Landscape In contemporary discourse regarding Latin America, Colombia is often characterized as a failed state mired by ruinous civil war and reflecting the pervasive influence of powerful drug-running paramilitaries. On the other hand, there are those who see the country as an enviable exemplar of Continue reading
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Oct. 29th, 1948 in history: Massacres in Palestine
Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history. 1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The known details of the massacre come to us via several contemporary second-hand Zionist reports and via Arab oral history. Yosef Nachmani, a senior officer in the Haganah (and later the Continue reading
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Crisis Chronicle: U.S. pulls the plug on the world
The U.S. administration has prompted a huge surge in the U.S. dollar, which may help refinance its financial sector. The cost is a currency whirlwind that threatens the collapse not just of banks and companies but entire countries. In the past week the financial crisis, which began in banking and spread to stocks, has careered Continue reading
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Housman’s (London) Events Newsletter for November 2008
CONTENTS: (book launch) Elizabeth Carola – ‘Hot’ – stories from Hackney (book event/talk) John Sinclair – ‘Rock and Revolution with the MC5 and the White Panther Party’ (music) ‘Singing the Struggle: Voices, Women, Peace’ with Frankie Armstrong (book event/talk) ‘Digital Film Making’ with Mike Figgis (book event/music) ‘Forward Groove: the radical history of jazz’ with Continue reading
The New Dark Age 