Reasons to be Angry

Not the Dawn of Non-Nuclear Peace

EXTRACT: ""Which, of course, brings us to Iran - the number one target of any possible Israeli nuclear attack and in turn the object of a US solidarity blitzkrieg when it retaliates with everything it has got - which is not much, frankly - against the Zionist enemy. Clearly, or at least for the US and its close allies, the Prague treaty and the renegotiated Nuclear Proliferation Treaty are instruments with which to tackle the ‘real problem’ of Iran - by righteously posing as the good guys in white hats who have remained true to the terms and conditions of the NPT. Unlike Iran, which is irresponsibly knocking at the nuclear door - trying to barge its way into the members-only clubhouse. So, speaking on behalf of the nuclear aristocracy, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the Prague treaty sends out a loud message to Iran - and North Korea - that it is one of imperialism’s “top priorities” to “strengthen the global non-proliferation regime” and keep nuclear weaponry “out of the wrong hands”.
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No One Has The Right Not be Offended (Philip Pullman)

The great Philip Pullman - surely a modern day secular saint if ever there was one - tells it how it is at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on March 28 - during a Questions & Answers session on his brilliant sounding new book,The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ  (read the Guardian's commentary here and here and here, and reviews here and here)

Polce Now Allowed to Torture You for a Traffic Violation (in Seattle)

"A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers did not employ excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a visibly pregnant woman for refusing to sign a speeding ticket". Read on.

Texas Textbooks - Coming to a School Near You!

Jesus the Extremist

Self-Portrait (sort of) #2

Organising National Socialist Health Care

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." 

(Pat Robertson)

Introducing the Jesus Rifle!

Smite down the unbelievers.

In Which Natalie Finds A Fallacy

"The Conquest of Machines" (John Heartfield, 1934)

Superman is a Humanist!

Healthcare Reformageddon

"I Shall Vanquish All Injustice!"

The Neurophages

In a leather-clad set from Road Warrior, a young flying message courier named Danny O'Dare stumbles across a crazy old man which spurs him into conflict with a government conspiracy, with the help of a sarcastic female techno-geek and her condescending tone, culminating in a fistfight atop a tower.

TO BE CONTINUED.

"Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber" (Otto Dix, 1925)

How Not To Fight the BNP & EDL

As argued by Andrew Coates.

EXTRACT: "The far-right can concentrate all the resentments and insecurities of people together into an  ’anti-system’ programme. This can slip from anti-foreigners, British nationalist, to virulent anti-black or Moslem propaganda. But its hinge is a reaction to the market-state. That is Labour’s commitment to keeping its consistency ’safe’, promoting their interests. With its idea that the state should equip us to compete in a global market, people are left vulnerable  to the gales of insecurity when economic crises arrive. Their own policies inflame the atmosphere in which the far-right thrives.

Unite Against Fascism and Hope Against Hate have not tackled these problems. They tend to reduce the source of British National Party backing to ‘anti-Islam’ inflamatory speech. They have tried to create the view that nobody should criticise religious belief.  But opposition to religions, such as Islam, and Islamist politics, should not be confused with dislike of Moslems. By putting these together they are unable to pursue an  anti-racist agenda. In Tower Hamlets, for example, Ken Livingstone, Galloway, the SWP and other 'anti-BNPers’, are allied with the supporters of the far-right Jamaat-I-Islami  a well-funded  Islamist group responsible for massacres in the Bangladesh War of National Liberation and the slaughter of leftists, Hindus and other minorities ever since. By failing to answer those who criticise this link they expose a weakness that undermines their own credibility as anti-fascists".

Unsurprisingly, I concur with Andrew's general argument.

"I'm so Ronery" (Kim Jong-il)

His new hit Single.

 

To find out about Kim's previous recordings, and discography, see here and here

Move Along

The Revemancers

"In an ancient America, a young milquetoast office drone named Danny O'Dare stumbles across a talking fish which spurs him into conflict with a government conspiracy, with the help of a bookish female scholar with mousy brown hair and her discomfort in formal wear, culminating in a daring rescue preceding a giant explosion."
TO BE CONTINUED.