Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Crosspost with http://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2006/09/howard-zinns-je-ne-suis-pas-marxiste.html The late Howard Zinn gives Marx his humanity back, warts and all. The following is reprinted from The Zinn Reader (1997, Seven Stories Press, pp 574-578) and with the permission of the author. FOR A LONG TIME I thought that there were important and useful ideas in Marxist philosophy and political economy that [...]
Sosa opposed (and was a target of) one of the most sanguinary right-wing juntas in Latin America, more or less covertly sponsored by the US government Dateline: Associated Press 10/4/09 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the “voice of Latin America” whose music inspired opponents of South America’s brutal military regimes and [...]
