Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

What? The Honduran coup isn’t over yet?

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Nope: Honduran police have turned professional arsonists. Their targets: Honduran peasant villagers. Their employers: Big illegal landowners who refuse to recognize the campesinos’ land claims under a 12-year-old agrarian reform law. Their enemy: President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in 2009 by … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with “crisis pregnancy” centres?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Well, for starters, there is NO SUCH THING as a “crisis” pregnancy. That word is utterly meaningless. And then there’s the fact that all this weasel-verbiage exists for a reason: to bamboozle unwary women (and girls!) into handing their decision-making … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Clan Murdoch circling the wagons

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Did I hear a meow? Why yes, I did. And look who’s here! The Stumpy Cat has some juicy tidbits for us about the ongoing saga of a right-wing media empire on the go-down. Whatcha got for us, kitty? Rebekah … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: How the IMF ate Greece

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Sabina Becker

An excellent, succinct interview with Michael Hudson, who explains how the European common market helped to tank the Greek economy, and then sold it out to the IMF. One jarring moment is when he says that all the historical assets … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: “A fantastic day for Britain”

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Sabina Becker

I was just reading a whole bunch of stuff about the News of the World phone-hack scandal when a certain stumpy-tailed cat started meowing at me. That can only mean one thing: Ms. Manx has some goodies for us! Lead … Continue reading →

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Heroes for Today: Hugh Grant, actually.

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Who’d of thunk that an actor who once became notorious for his run-in with a streetwalker would end up turning the tables on the paparazzi who made his private life virtually nonexistent thereafter? Or that he’d become a hero to … Continue reading →

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Vancouver riots: Revealing video shows what’s behind the “kiss” photo

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Sabina Becker

No, it really wasn’t a hot make-out session. (Too bad, eh?) Here’s what really happened: If you think the rioters were bad, the cops were WORSE. (Like I often say: It’s never a riot till the cops show up.) They … Continue reading →

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Dramatic turnaround in an Argentine adoption case

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera arrive to submit DNA samples in compliance with a judicial order. After 10 years of delays and legal wrangling, there will finally be an answer to the question: Are they children of the disappeared? The … Continue reading →

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Prison mafias: The newest plot to destabilize Venezuela

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Sabina Becker

From Patria Grande, another interesting look at the self-styled forces of “democratic civil society” in Venezuela, and what they’re doing to steer the country away from the “disastrous”, “Castro-communist” rule of Hugo Chávez Frías: The editor of the weekly “Sixth … Continue reading →

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“Don’t keep looking for your brother, they threw him from a helicopter”

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Pura Soto Rojas points to a headline: “SHOT”. It refers to the deaths, by secret firing squad, of leftist guerrillas during the “democratic” years of the Fourth Republic. Years which were not so democratic in fact, as the tragic story … Continue reading →