Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Music for a Sunday: Got the blues?

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Sabina Becker

I do…but they’re the best kind of blues, daddy-o: Bossa nova’s finest drummer, Milton Banana, jazzes out on us. And it’s the coolest sound you ever heard.

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Wankers of the Week: Eagle 1, Der Donald 0

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Welp, it looks as though the eagle has, indeed, landed…its beak in Der Donald’s grubby hand. A more fitting metaphorical image there could not be…and a more fitting theme for this week’s entry, neither. And here, in … Continue reading →

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Hey, Syrians: Welcome to Canada!

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Sabina Becker

These kids have something to say: The kids are all right. It’s the adults that could do with some schooling, methinks. As-salaam alaykum.

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A few random thoughts on the Venezuelan election fiasco

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Sabina Becker

“When they take away your grandpa’s pension, say it with pride: But we have change!” So, this happened. The “democratic” Venezuelan opposition’s dirty tricks and intimidation campaigns finally paid off…sort of. But it looks as though their honeymoon in the … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Noam Chomsky on terrorism

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Happy 87th Birthday to a guy who can SO make quippy quotes. (And no presents for the media who ignore him.)

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Remember Montréal.

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Sabina Becker

26 years ago, as a third-year university student and feminist volunteer at the Queen’s Women’s Centre, I felt murder breathing down my neck. Walking to class every day, the ever-present Kingston slush seeping cold and damp through the seams of … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Alan Woods on the legacy of Hugo Chávez

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Sabina Becker

The British leftist and representative of Hands Off Venezuela speaks (in Castilian Spanish, with English subtitles) of what needs to be done during and after today’s elections in Venezuela. Let’s hope the Bolivarian turnout was strong, and that the oligarchy … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Scott Weiland, RIP…

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Sabina Becker

The former frontman of the Stone Temple Pilots, who waged a long and painful battle with heroin and crack addictions, has crashed for the final time. Here, he fronts another of the three major groups he led in his storied … Continue reading →

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Wankers of the Week: Asshat Calendar

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! And crappy December, that most commercial and eye-rollingly pious of months, when all of Wingnuttia fights the bogus War on Christmas with bullshit bullets and cannonades of crapola. And brace yourselves, folks, because this week’s wankapedia is … Continue reading →

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