Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

Jeremy Scahill has a YouTube channel!

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

If you ever wanted to know about US mercenaries and just how low they can go, this is the guy who wrote the book. It’s called Blackwater, and it’s not pretty, but it’s one compelling read. It will wake you … Continue reading →

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Alan fiddles while Pisco burns

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Alan Garcia finally takes his doctor’s advice and starts his new aerobics program. Maybe he’ll finally lose some of that weight.Crikey, what is up with the president of Peru? Dancing around like a marionette while Pisco is still in such … Continue reading →

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Racism, branded on the skin

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Carimba, marcada en mi pielby Guarataro Video (in Spanish) about the prevalence of racism in Venezuela. It’s a fact much denied by the upper classes (who are overwhelmingly white), but when seen through “black” eyes, it becomes impossible to miss. … Continue reading →

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Al Gore, I love you!

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Watch this, and in half an hour, I guarantee you’ll be in love too:Al Gore makes the case for a no-carbon energy economy. And in so doing, he kills a lot of crapitalist birds with one stone. It’s a brilliantly … Continue reading →

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Hideous tanorexia strikes again!

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Oh God, I won a rhinestone tiara for one whole year! All the torture has been worth it!” Well, here’s a foregone conclusion that I wish the world could forego: Once again, a totally un-Venezuelan-looking Miss Venezuela has been crowned … Continue reading →

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It’s not just Evo or Chavecito…

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…it’s all of Mercosur rejecting that draconian, disgusting European “Return Statute”–you know, the one that deprives undocumented immigrants of all legal rights, including recourse to an attorney before the country they’re in decides to boot them out–after a prison stay … Continue reading →

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Synchronicity works in mysterious ways

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Sabina Becker

So here I am, listening to a test-cast by my mega-talented friend Tony “T-Bone” Jones. It’s called “Song of Bobby Kennedy”, and it’s about 20 minutes of trance-dance electronica interspersed with a rousing and cautionary speech by Bobby Kennedy. “A … Continue reading →

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The myth of happy racism

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Found a little item on Aporrea and thought I’d translate it and follow up with a few thoughts of mine own: Could it be that my black friends in the Venezuelan opposition don’t feel that they are being alluded to … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Canadian Counterpunch, Filthy Stinking Rich, Found in Translation, Free Trade, My Ass!, Huguito Chavecito, If You REALLY Care, The Hardcore Stupid | Comments Off

Brigitte Bardot, phoquez-vous!

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Sabina Becker

I’m always amazed that the same people who bawl over baby seals in some other part of the world have so little regard left over for abused humanity coming to their own shores. Take (please!) the example of Brigitte Bardot, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Barry Nolan on the myth of free speech

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“In today’s America, speech is only ‘free’ when you are talking down to someone less powerful that you. Speak ‘up’ — and look out.“In your work life, they can fire you, as I found out, for quietly saying something that … Continue reading →

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