Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

Pride goes before…uh, what was the saying again?

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Whatever it is, it seems to have hit some Middle Eastern plutocrats’ paradise or other… Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles — sedans, SUVs, regulars — abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say … Continue reading →

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Privatized Cities

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

An Al-Jazeera English report by Canada’s own Avi Lewis (spouse of Naomi Klein, who wrote The Shock Doctrine, in which the Sandy Springs story also figures).Want to see Completely Fucking Clueless in action? Get a load of that Republican dude. … Continue reading →

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Dear Big Publishing: You suck!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Sabina Becker

And do you know why? Salon.com does: Thanks to conglomeration and corporate distribution models, some of publishing’s biggest houses were laid very low by the current stock market collapse. And scary holiday book sales figures compounded the industry’s woes, with … Continue reading →

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I’m just sayin’…

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Day before yesterday, I made some off-the-cuff observations: I once worked, briefly, in a retail mall that had one major thing in common with [the Sambil La Candelaria]–no windows. Only the corridors had a poor semblance of windows–skylights, badly constructed … Continue reading →

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Christmas: the untold story

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Sabina Becker

That was last year. This year, “Santa” will be throwing himself off a window ledge over Wall Street. I can hardly wait!

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Quotable: Frantz Fanon on neoliberalism

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“But when decolonization occurs in regions where the liberation struggle has not yet made its impact sufficiently felt, here are the same smart alecks, the sly, shrewd intellectuals whose behavior and ways of thinking, picked up from their rubbing shoulders … Continue reading →

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Don’t they know it’s Christmastime at all?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Remember when Boy George still had hair? (Okay, EXTENSIONS?) Or when Simon Le Bon was still cute, and George Michael was still in the closet? Sure you do:Happy holidays, bankers. Don’t all throw yourselves off the ledges at once, or … Continue reading →

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How to turn a fascist into a cuddly teddy bear

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Why, how else? Open a museum dedicated to “humanizing” a monster: Visitors to the museum can see the late general’s office, desk, uniforms, medals – even his large collection of toy soldiers, representing all the divisions of the Chilean army … Continue reading →

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So much for right-wing turns making journalism “lively”

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Sabina Becker

I’ve been reading a number of newspaper writers (or former ones) diagnosing What Went Wrong at their respective (ex-)rags lately, and go figure, a lot of them are saying things remarkably like what the guy at Whap! Whap! said in … Continue reading →