Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

Cristina’s pet gloat

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Hey! Remember how Argentina defaulted on its debt in 2001? And how it kicked out the IMF a short time later? Well, looks like that was a smart decision. And the significance of yet another IMFer being in deep shit … Continue reading →

Posted in Don't Cry For Argentina, Economics for Dummies, EuroPeons, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Free Trade, My Ass!, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Karma 1, Dogma 0, Schadenfreude, Under the Name of Spain | Comments Off

Summit of the Americas: Venezuelan fascists and Che’s murderer get precedence over their own victims’ families

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Lt. Yendry Velázquez, 36, widow of a Venezuelan soldier murdered during last year’s guarimbas, confronts Lilian Tintori outside the Americas Summit in Panama City. “Your husband is still living, mine is dead thanks to yours,” she says. And that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Fascism Without Swastikas, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Obamarama!, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Argentina: Once more, the plot thickens in the Nisman case

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Are these Argentines still “Nisman”? They might not want to be anymore, if the latest news on the sensational case of the maybe-murdered-maybe-suicided prosecutor has any bearing on the matter: Some 400,000 people marched in Buenos Aires less than two … Continue reading →

Posted in Don't Cry For Argentina, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Israelly Uncool, Law-Law Land, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Bill C-51: Are you on Harpo’s enemies list yet?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Sabina Becker

If not, shame on you. Watch this and learn why it behooves you to become an enemy of PetroState Canada and Fortress North America: Democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and political association, the indigenous peoples, the right to … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Bullies, Canadian Counterpunch, Environmentally Ill, Fascism Without Swastikas, If You REALLY Care, Isn't That Illegal?, Isn't That Racist?, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Spooks, Teh Injunz, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

In Germany, fear is prostitution’s constant companion

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Remember how, back in 2002, progressives from all over the world heralded Germany’s suddenly liberalized prostitution laws? Finally, they said — the “oldest profession” would become a job just like any other! Unionization! Freedom of sexual expression! Workers’ rights for … Continue reading →

Posted in Confessions of a Bad German, Economics for Dummies, EuroPeons, Filthy Stinking Rich, Free Trade, My Ass!, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Men Who Just Don't Get It, Uppity Wimmin | Comments Off

Meme du jour…

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Sabina Becker

And, given the state of our current government and its blatantly racist legislation (and actual neo-Nazi past), this meme was inevitable.

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Confessions of a Bad German, Fascism Without Swastikas, Isn't That Illegal?, Isn't That Racist?, Law-Law Land, Newspeak is Nospeak | Comments Off

Cristina kicks Israel’s ass; Bibi own-goals himself before US congress

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Sabina Becker

A half-hour portion of Cristina’s speech before the Argentine parliament the other day, which lasted about four hours in all. This portion specifically concerns the AMIA and Israeli embassy bombings. If you can understand Spanish, you really need to see … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Deepest Darkest Africa, Don't Cry For Argentina, Economics for Dummies, Fascism Without Swastikas, Gazing on Gaza, Isn't That Illegal?, Israelly Uncool, Law-Law Land, Persian Cats, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia, The War on Terra, The WTF? Files, Uppity Wimmin | Comments Off

After 40 years, a victim of Franco’s Spain tells her story

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Lidia Falcón in an archival photo, likely taken before her seventh and final arrest under the Franco dictatorship. The leftist lawyer and feminist was falsely linked to a crime allegedly carried out by Basque separatists in Madrid in September 1974. … Continue reading →

Posted in Don't Cry For Argentina, Fascism Without Swastikas, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Sick Frickin' Bastards, The United States of Amnesia, Under the Name of Spain, Uppity Wimmin | Comments Off

The Spy Cables: How South African intelligence was diverted — and PERverted

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Sabina Becker

By now, this should be a familiar story to anyone who’s been following the War on Terra even casually: A country’s intelligence resources get shamelessly gobbled up by the CIA and Mossad in an effort to blame any domestic terrorism … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Deepest Darkest Africa, Don't Cry For Argentina, Fascism Without Swastikas, Gazing on Gaza, Isn't That Illegal?, Korean Kimchi, Persian Cats, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia, The War on Terra | Comments Off

Ex-DEA agent slams Salazar, CIA and DEA

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Celerino Castillo busted his ass in the 1980s trying to get to the bottom of the Nicaraguan cocaine trafficking networks in Central America. Imagine his horror when he found out that the very same US government he was working for … Continue reading →