Greece: New Elections after Governmental Failure
The last three days of negotiations and conducts under the Greek President Karolos Papoulias, after E. Venizelos of PASOK surrendered his mandate at Saturday 12th, have led to critical developments in the Greek crisis and the attempt to find a governmental solution. Some of them make a comic impression, but this does not prevent them [...]

Good Rockets, Bad Rockets: BBC Bias on India and North Korea
In the space of one week last month, the BBC offered an opportunity to compare its reporting on two nuclear powers: India, an ally of the British government; and North Korea, an official enemy. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that India has a stockpile of 80-100 nuclear weapons while North Korea has less than [...]

War on Terror Signs
What the "war on terrorism" really is.

The Fukushima Insomniac Chronicles
The seabed throws its voice screaming onto land like a ventriloquist, a sleight of hand artist on speed. — street poet Stiletto 1 When her breathing slows, and then turns ever so erratic, I break into my lover’s dreams to steal whatever sleep I can …. See how her belly begins to show! My arms [...]

Baracchio and the Piggly Wiggly World
It’s unseemly for anyone born and raised in Ohio to criticize any other place on earth. But I recently passed through Oklahoma. Starting from the adopted home base of Killadelphia — city of descending tough guy mayors like Frank Rizzo, MOVEabomber Wilson Goode and, now, raccoon-killer Michael Extermi-Nutter, a city where the pedophile priests and [...]

Blown up Election
If family values are in the news, you can be sure an American election is just around the corner. According to Republicans, gay marriage is a glory hole puncturing the sanctity of the nuke-clear family, so for backing such a ghastly proposal, with ring, no less, Obama is the “gayest president,” according to Rand Paul, [...]

Euro Austerity: Capitalist Contempt for Democracy
This month, sixty per cent of voters in Greece voted for parties that opposed draconian austerity measures imposed on their country. A majority in France’s election for president voted for Francois Hollande, the anti-austerity Socialist Party candidate.  Voters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest state, voted against Angela Merkel’s austerity policies, giving the Social Democrats 39 [...]

Conceptualizing Post-Capitalist Economics
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein is a well-researched discussion of the history of money, capitalist economics and the worldwide movement for economic relocalization. Part I explores the profound effect the institution of money has on human thinking and psychology, as well as direct links between our [...]

The Palestinian Nakba: The Resolve of Memory
Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience [...]

“And if I Could Have Chosen”
News that a popular front-man is about to become a front-woman might not stir such intense buzz if we lived in a world that was truly sexually liberated. Hell, it might not even be “news,” just another instance of an individual becoming more like the person they envision themselves to be; end of story. We [...]