Saturday, May 30, 2020

Burn, Baby, Burn

"God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
No Water
The Fire Next Time"

Minneapolis Pig-Murderer:



Minneapolis (and across the US):

Friday, May 29, 2020

High Hopes


On his 103rd birthday, John F. Kennedy speaks to us of privatization, secret societies, secret cabals, and in a very funny way. . .

Happy Birthday!

Monday, May 25, 2020

Friday, May 22, 2020

Near Dark


The era of U.S. vampire capitalism (born from the election of Ronnie Raygun in 1980) destroying all traditions, memories, hopes, romance, honor, communion, and love is over. That's the silver lining of this over-blown COVID-19 fear porn: how obvious to the rest of the planet how incompetent, sheeplike, stupid, and selfish just about all of U.S. society has become.

So the question is: will the U.S. corporate totalitarians go gently into that good night, as did Britain and France after World War II, as did the Soviet Union under traitors Gorbachev/Yeltsin in the late-80s into the 90s; or will they try to take down the rest of humanity in their death throws?

John Pilger -- our bravest 21st-century journalist not currently locked-down in Belmarsh Prison -- thinks he has the answer: a coming war against the People's Republic of China.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Of Course



Since the Dodgers swept the Yanks in the '63 World Series one week later, Ed's advice must've worked!

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Bernie Redux


It was worse than you thought. Much worse.

Jimmy Dore with Sanders organizer Fiorella Isabel.

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Decoration Day

George Cukor's The Marrying Kind -- one of the dearest American movies of the 1950s -- loves public space. The married couple, played by Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray, are almost never alone. They met in Central Park, adore their kids, have company over non-stop, and basically let friends and relatives run their lives: the husband and wife are just fine with that. In New York City 1952, others are not mere externals to be sniffed at. Beside its beautiful ending, its most memorable scene (set on Decoration Day) is one of the most peaceful -- and then terrifying -- in 50s cinema, Cukor signaling the upcoming horror by the panicked running of others.

And it breaks the marriage in two.

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Happy Marxmas

Monday, May 4, 2020

God Speed

When "doing whatever we set our minds to" meant more than a computerized drone attack.

59 years ago -- Freedom 7.



Sunday, May 3, 2020

I Got

Friday, May 1, 2020

Tressell


Robert Tressell was an Irish-born house-painter and decorator who worked along the southern coast of England, dying of tuberculois at the age of 40. He was buried in a pauper's grave, with a dozen other men buried in the same plot.

Tressell also wrote the greatest socialist novel ever published (published posthumously), The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. George Galloway and Professor Alan Taylor discuss the book and Tressell's life.



Grab the novel here. Then throw Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the garbage.