Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

Quotable: Howard Zinn on the true meaning of Remembrance Day

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“Let’s go back to the beginning of Veterans Day. It used to be Armistice Day, because at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I came to an end…Veterans Day, instead of … Continue reading →

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The day Mississauga became a ghost town

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Since I’m on a Gordon Lightfoot kick today, I might as well include another apt song of his to introduce this entry and set the emotional tone:Thirty years ago today, the local nighttime news was filled with some of the … Continue reading →

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The gales of November came early…

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A well-made tribute to the 29 sailors who went down 34 years ago in the most famous Great Lakes wreck of all time–that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. They all came from the US, but because they went down in Canadian … Continue reading →

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Time to end this war, NOW

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Sabina Becker

FUX Snooze, as usual, gets it wrong. The shooter’s cousin sets them straight.When an army doctor busts in and starts shooting the place up in order to prevent the deployment of his comrades to Afghanistan (and himself to Iraq), what … Continue reading →

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The CIA is…WHAT?

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

From the Old Grey Whore of New York, a head-scratching opening to a story that I thought ought to have been open and shut long ago… Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Good to Know, If You REALLY Care, Isn't That Illegal?, Karma 1, Dogma 0, Newspeak is Nospeak, The "Well, DUH!" Files, The War on Terra | 5 Comments

This one won’t be running off to Peru for asylum…

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Venezuelans carry the body of a comrade during the Caracazo. Caracas, Venezuela, late February-early March, 1989.…because he’s one of those responsible for an old massacre, and the people of Venezuela are anxious to see him brought to justice at home: … Continue reading →

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Is this what it takes to stop the bleeding?

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Sabina Becker

From France, something mightily disturbing about where privatization of formerly public companies goes if taken to the crapitalist extreme… France Télécom today shelved its restructuring programme after the suicides of 25 workers whose deaths have been linked to a modernisation … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics for Dummies, Filthy Stinking Rich, If You REALLY Care, Isn't It Ironic?, Morticia! You Spoke French!, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!, The "Well, DUH!" Files | Comments Off

Another day, another death in Tegucigolpe

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Sabina Becker

From Aporrea, more evidence that the Gorilletti dictatorship has got to die: The National Front Against the Coup D’état in Honduras condemned the murder of one of its leaders during the repression of political anti-coup demonstrations.The latest victim has been … Continue reading →

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A giant joke on the whole notion of world peace

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“The Right to Live in Peace”, by Víctor Jara. He wrote this song in honor of Vietnam when the war there was still raging. For speaking out for the Vietnamese, and for his own Chilean and Latin American brethren, Jara … Continue reading →

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Tu querida presencia, Comandante…

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A documentary of the life of Che Guevara. On this, the anniversary of his assassination by the CIA’s thugs in Bolivia, it’s useful to know who he really was, and why the moneyed interests wanted him dead. Contrary to popular … Continue reading →