ARCHIVES: Roger Waters’ The Wall Live tour: A comment from a reader ANNOTATED NEWS, ARTS & FILM, CULTURE & CRITICISM Comments Off May 202012 Terrence McGovern, WSWS.ORG(13 October 2010) Waters in Barcelona, 2011 Editor’s Note: Do NOT miss the addendum, a piece outlining Waters’ views on animals, hunting and other morally significant issues. The mark, indeed, of the well-cushioned, and essentially politically ignorant celebrity long enveloped in a cocoon of liberaloid petty bourgeois thinking. The dude is confused. In the worst possible way. His unexamined narcissism leads him to believe that because “he does it” it must be alright. How many mediocrities do you know who think that way?—PG In 1979, the progressive rock band Pink Floyd released its 11th studio album, entitled The Wall, which was to be accompanied by possibly the most ambitious live show in rock history as well as a film, released in 1982 and directed by Alan Parker. The live show centered on the building of a 40-foot-high wall separating the audience from the band. Huge animations were projected onto the wall, which effectively became a giant screen, while giant inflatable monsters stalked the stage and the band played variously from behind, in front of and on top of the wall. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
‘Human Rights Won’t Get in the Way’: The Selling Out of a Chinese Dissident ACTIVISTS & HEROES, CHINA, CORPORATE CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY Comments Off May 202012 By Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening Sold out and sell-out: Chinese people's lawyer Chen Guangcheng and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton There are two truths about the US that come clearly to the fore in the current diplomatic blow-up between the US and China over the case of people’s lawyer Chen Guangcheng, though neither is really getting stated in the corporate media coverage of the story. The first is that the US does not, and has not really ever, cared about the issue of human rights abuses in China, and the second is that the Obama administration, including the supposedly “tough” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doesn’t know squat about how to negotiate — not when it comes to dealing with Republicans in Congress, and certainly not when it comes to China. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
In The Name Of My Father CITIZEN TOOLS, CULTURE & CRITICISM Comments Off May 202012 Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street, in the Light of a Georgia Spring by PHIL ROCKSTROH On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS celebrants marched into Zuccotti Park to jubilant exhortations of “welcome home” from a throng of fellow occupiers. The next day, my wife and I boarded a southbound Amtrak train to join family gathered at my dying father’s bedside to bid him farewell. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Myanmar learns the lesson of Libya ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANTIWAR, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, IMPERIALISM Comments Off May 202012 By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left Myanmar Railway minister talks to journalists on May 19, 2012. The regime—according to the West, is beginning to act "reasonably." Strike Myanmar from the regime change list. Only two years ago, the resource-rich country located between India and China was practicing the kind of economic nationalism that got Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi deep into trouble with the US State Department and oil company giants. Now, Washington has suspended its sanctions on Myanmar and nominated its first ambassador to the country in 22 years. Why? Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Dropping Planes, Not Bombs: US Attack on Iran with F-22 Stealth Fighters would be Laughable ANTIWAR, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, US Foreign Policy, US Military Comments Off May 202012 Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening The Iranian military must be enjoying the latest spectacle of Pentagon waste and bungling. Only a few weeks ago, the US attempted to ramp up the pressure on Iran by deploying to the Persian Gulf at the Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, just across the gulf from Iran, a squadron of the Air Force’s spanking new and never battle-tested supersonic F-22 stealth fighter-bombers. The F-22: A $400-million flying coffin built by Lockheed Martin. If half of the 180 planes on order were cancelled, the savings would fund the entire troubled $40-billion Pell Grant program that provides college funding to poor and moderate-income students. (Pentagon photo) Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
So… Bill O’Reilly Despises Progressives, But He’s Okay with Liberals… Progressive Leaders Comment ACTIVISTS & HEROES 1 Response » May 202012 Big Bill: A big bag of hot toxic air, and a mean-spirited bastard to boot. O’Reilly said, literally, “I despise progressives.” He then went on to say something, and this in not necessarily the literal quote, “but liberals are okay.” So I asked leading progressives what they thought about it. Earlier this month, on May 8th, I gritted my teeth to do what I do less and less anymore– switched to Fox News to check out the “enemy.” Bill O’Reilly was on, interviewing John Lovitz, who’d recently been critical of Obama. During the ten minutes I tolerated watching the Faux network, O’Reilly said, literally, “I despise progressives.” He then went on to say something, and this in not necessarily the literal quote, “but liberals are okay.” Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Once again, all eyes on Greece ACTIVISTS & HEROES, EU.Greece, HEADLINERS Comments Off May 202012 THE GREEK AFFAIR: SYMBOL OF THE CRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION OR PARADIGM OF EUROPE’S SALVATION It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the worst, as the symbol of the threat to the collapse of the West European society—but as a tough remedy for an insidious disease. Theodoris Dritsas (Gaither Stewart in Rome) SYRIZA, an acronym signifying “Coalition of the Radical Left”, is favored to win upcoming re-elections following the inconclusive elections held last May 6. Today’s ungovernable and crisis-ridden Greece is shaking the foundation of the European Union. The left coalition is headed by the 38-year old Alexis Tsipras, prominent since his candidacy for Mayor of Athens in 2006. Tsipras, the leader of the left’s key component called SYNASPISMOS, also an umbrella group of Greece’s far left, originated from the youth wing of the Greek Communist Party, the KKE. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
