Author Archives: Sabina Becker

“Don’t keep looking for your brother, they threw him from a helicopter”

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Pura Soto Rojas points to a headline: “SHOT”. It refers to the deaths, by secret firing squad, of leftist guerrillas during the “democratic” years of the Fourth Republic. Years which were not so democratic in fact, as the tragic story … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Might be a brave new world…

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Sabina Becker

…but it’s really not my home: For me, this is the song that started a lot: my love for the music (and social justice activism) of Tom Cochrane, and oh yeah: my interest in Neruda, for whom the album that … Continue reading →

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Wankers of the Week: Weiners, wieners and just plain dicks

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! So, how are you liking Schlongergate? Yeah, me neither. But at least it spawned some funny toons, which I’ve put to good use here. Not everyone on this list has something to do with the flaccid scandal … Continue reading →

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Collateral Suicide

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Sabina Becker

What do I have against the “humanitarian intervention” of NATO in Libya? Lots of things. This video contains a clue as to some of them: So, let’s recap: So far, no Gaddafi. Their main target (as declared by NATO) remains … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Brigette has NOT left Ottawa yet!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Here she is, speaking at today’s “Stop Harper” rally: Photo courtesy Dylan Penner, via Twitter.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Ollanta Presidente!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Sabina Becker

My gosh, the dominoes are just tumbling in Latin America, aren’t they? It’s getting so that you’d hardly recognize the place anymore. First it was Venezuela, then Bolivia and Ecuador. Argentina and (for a while) Chile have had some progressive … Continue reading →

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So, “Arab Spring” was the wrong thing for Brigette to say?

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Funny, but actual Egyptians don’t think so: The Arab Spring, they say, isn’t about ballot boxes, it’s about the dignity of humanity. Something the Harper Government™ doesn’t respect, and probably never did. While we’re at it, let’s compare and contrast … Continue reading →

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Ah, memories!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sabina Becker

This video, from 1990, shows Rush Limbaugh filling in for Pat Sajak on the latter’s short-lived (if you blinked, you missed it) TV talk show…and getting clobbered, metaphorically speaking, by an anything-but-captive audience: In the first segment, the Pigman tries … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Greece Has Talent

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sabina Becker

OMG, what do they put in the ouzo? It makes guys musical in all the, uh, most interesting places: Very nice, fellas! Do you do requests? I wanna hear “Zorba’s Dance”.

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“Shame on you!”

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Hotel maids in New York turned out en masse to protest Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a legal hearing. I wonder if the French press considers things like this to be “barbaric” and “vulgar”, too.

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