Category Archives: Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind

Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Seeing as it’s the 50th anniversary of the incident that inspired this here song, I figured it would be a friendly gesture to post it for all my US friends: Oh yeah, and the movie that got made about it, … Continue reading →

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Syria: Turkey tips its hand, NATO objectively pro-Daesh, Canada WTF?

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Sorry for that inelegant header, but this is gonna be an untidy post that covers a lot of rough ground, so hang onto your hats, kiddies. First up, a little video from that shootdown of a Russian Sukhoi yesterday: … Continue reading →

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Silence around the roots of the Syrian “jihad”

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Sabina Becker

The Real News delves into the operations of Daesh: who’s funding them, and how they are getting their war matériel. Obviously, the idea that they’re generating their own income is false. Their operations are too expensive to be fueled by … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Ridin’ in a motorcade…

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Whatchoo say?

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Algeria: The real, unmentionable key to the Paris attacks

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Sabina Becker

The Battle of Algiers, an award-winning film based on the true story of the struggle for Algerian independence. Saadi Yacef, who plays El-Hadi Jaffar, was an actual FLN guerrilla leader; the character Jaffar is basically himself a few years before … Continue reading →

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Let’s all bomb Belgium!

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Sabina Becker

No, seriously. Let’s all bomb Belgium, because that’s where the terrorists who struck Paris got their orders from. François Hollande called the attacks “an act of war”. Therefore, it stands to reason that one must declare war on the source … Continue reading →

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Quotable: George Orwell on war

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Sabina Becker

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More Music for a Sunday: No more war, no more war, no more war…

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Quite possibly the coolest protest song ever (and yes, there is an awful lot of competition for that status). Sade is as great in live performance as she is on the record. And she is note-perfect here.

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Music for a Sunday: This is the world we live in

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Sabina Becker

We got the funk, we got the funk:

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Call it love, or call it reason

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Sabina Becker

It’s Remembrance Day again, and I’m not out there in the rain with the others, saluting at the cenotaph. I’m not out there listening to the Last Post, the moment of silence, and then the forlorn reveille. I’m not even … Continue reading →