Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

Why economic globalization really, REALLY stinks

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Sure, it’s easy for us lefties to say that corporate globalism sucks the big banana. We’ve been saying that for over two decades now. But if you want to see, not just hear, why it’s a bad idea, I suggest … Continue reading →

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Economy, ecology…they’re closer than you think

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Sabina Becker

This piece on the Beeb gives me the heebie-jeebies. Not because it tells me anything new, but because finally, a mainstream media outlet is publishing what regular enviro-lefties like me have known for a long, long time: The global economy … Continue reading →

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Scary Thought #10: Prepare to soil yourselves again, folks…

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The National Debt Clock in Manhattan is now too small for the number it’s meant to tally. You may want to avoid Wall St., I hear they’re about due for a shower of suiciding stockbrokers.

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Money as Debt

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Okay, class, here’s your weekend assignment: Watch this 47-minute video. Don’t mind the cheesy animation; pay attention to the very simple lessons contained therein. If you do, you might just end up understanding the whole US (and world) credit crisis … Continue reading →

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People are disappearing in Peru

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Does Alan Garcia give a shit? Aporrea thinks not: Human rights groups have denounced the disappearance of 11 persons during military operations to search for a column of Shining Path guerrillas in southeastern Peru.The denunciation was made by a peasant … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Adolfo Gilly places Bolivian racism in a nutshell

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“In that domination, being a full citizen means being white or an assimilated mestizo. To become a citizen, an Indian must stop being Indian and see themselves and be seen as being white; break from their concrete historical community, that … Continue reading →

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A prophet in her own country

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Amy Goodman’s arrest yesterday at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, may be just a sideline in the US, but in other countries, it’s big news. Aporrea, the popular Venezuelan news portal, made her story top of their … Continue reading →

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Something is very wrong with this picture

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Sabina Becker

From Aporrea, some shocking facts about soap operas in Mexico: Each episode of the soap opera “Fire in the Blood”, one of the most-watched in Mexico, contains an average of 50 scenes of violence against women, according to a study … Continue reading →

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Who writes these dumbass editorials?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

More tired old “21st century socialism looks just like 20th”, courtesy the Financial Times. More tired old “Chavez is a dictator”, courtesy the Richmond Times Dispatch. And in the grand (tired) old tradition of unsigned editorials, the authors are not … Continue reading →

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Yep, that Catholic church is sure progressing…

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sabina Becker

What century is this again? Rev. Sergio G. Roman sounded the alarm against miniskirts in an online publication to prepare Catholics for a church family-values forum next year in Mexico City. “When we show our body without prudence, without modesty, … Continue reading →

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