Youtube Videos from Les Miserables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YDSi0-kt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfmP7h3gBw
Libya’s government holed up in a 1970s hotel
[Imperial intervention has led to chaos and tyranny in Libya -- NP] By Tim Whewell ( News, Tobruk) They've been chosen to rule a vast country that holds Africa's biggest oil reserves. They represent the democratic future of a land the world helped free from tyranny. But three years after the fall of Gaddafi, Libya's new... Continue Reading →
Stalin ‘tried to kill John Wayne’
[Wayne was a fascist, so this is a point in Stalin's favor. -NP] (bbc) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so angered by John Wayne's anti-communism that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the Hollywood legend. John Wayne: The Man behind the Myth, by British writer Michael Munn, says there... Continue Reading →
Made in Bangladesh
(http://www.cbc.ca/) By: Tarannum Kamlani Who made that T-shirt you’re wearing? The one so stylish and cheap you had to have it in 5 different colours? Until April 24, 2013 not many of us really thought about the hands that made that shirt, or where it was made. On that day when the 8-story Rana Plaza... Continue Reading →
Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels near Iraq
(BBC) The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said. Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013. Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian... Continue Reading →
Adams Family Thanksgiving
Good stuff: http://youtu.be/2VbYZDohsHk
Christian clerics urge recognition of Palestinian state
Jerusalem (AFP) - Three leading Christian clerics in the Holy Land appealed Friday for more European governments to recognise a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. The call from the Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Lutheran prelates -- all of them Palestinian -- came after EU member Sweden last week announced its intention to... Continue Reading →
Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents
[Empire is manipulating Islam to advance its agenda. It is using Islam to silence its critics in the Gulf states. -- NP] (independent.co.uk) Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new... Continue Reading →
Iguala’s Martyrs are Immortal
Iguala’s Martyrs are Immortal LLCO.org Recently, following violence where six students were killed and 43 went missing in Guerrero, Mexico, burned remains were found in a mass grave in Iguala, about 200 km south of Mexico’s capital. The bodies in the grave reportedly match video images of students who were taken away by police. Several... Continue Reading →
Tumblr: Where First Worlders are the real victims
The graphic has some political errors, but it still makes an important point. First Worldism takes many forms: identity politics, bourgeois feminism, bourgeois gender activism, lifestyle politics, etc. Don't be fooled by opportunists and liberals. Serve the people. Serve the land. Stand with the truly oppressed. Stand with the Proletarian World. - New Power
Mexico’s 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened?
(www.npr.org) In the summer of 1968, Mexico was experiencing the birth of a new student movement. But that movement was short-lived. On Oct. 2, 1968, 10 days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic... Continue Reading →