Category Archives: Newspeak is Nospeak

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Gorgeous, George!

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Sabina Becker

OMG, look who got arrested earlier today: Yes, that’s George Clooney. The movie star. He’s now free, along with his dad and a group of other prominent activists who were protesting on behalf of the people of Sudan, in front … Continue reading →

Posted in Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff, Crapagandarati, Festive Left Friday Blogging, Heroes for Today, If You REALLY Care, Isn't It Ironic?, Merry Old England, Newspeak is Nospeak, The Bold and the Badass, The United States of Amnesia, The WTF? Files | Comments Off

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito gets a visitor

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Via Cubadebate’s Facebook page, some fresh photos that came in just now: Now, who might that healthy, hearty-looking guy be? Surely not the same walking corpse that the lamestream media, on the orders of a crapaganda-peddling putschist private “intelligence” (ha!) … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Festive Left Friday Blogging, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Newspeak is Nospeak, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | 1 Comment

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Playing catch-up with El Ecuadorable

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Sigh. What’s a girl to do when she’s looking for Latin American lefty-porn to give her readers their Friday fix of progressive pulchritude? All the news is full of Chavecito and his maybe-recurred cancer (or maybe-just-scar-tissue, did-THAT-ever-occur-to-you-crapaganda-whores?). And we all … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, Crapagandarati, Ecuadorable As Can Be, Festive Left Friday Blogging, Huguito Chavecito, Morticia! You Spoke French!, Newspeak is Nospeak | Comments Off

Man up, Vic!

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You want a piece of me? First, Vic, get a warrant: And when you’re done that, get a life: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews claims he was attacked on two internet fronts from inside the House of Commons last week … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Crapagandarati, Do As I Say..., Fascism Without Swastikas, Isn't It Ironic?, Law-Law Land, Men Who Just Don't Get It, Newspeak is Nospeak, Schadenfreude | Comments Off

Henrique Capriles Radonski: Neither victim nor victor

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Remember this picture? The lamestream media up here don’t want you to. According to them, this silly poser, who pretended to be a Communist while in China for the Beijing Olympics, is The Man Who Will Beat Hugo Chávez, assuming … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Newspeak is Nospeak, The United States of Amnesia, Who Forgot Poland? | Comments Off

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Another satellite for Venezuela

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Looks like Simón Bolívar will have even more company in orbit. In addition to his Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts, he’s going to be joined by another Venezuelan satellite, named after another independence hero: The new satellite, “Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda”, … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, All the Tea in China, Canadian Counterpunch, Crapagandarati, Ecuadorable As Can Be, Festive Left Friday Blogging, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Newspeak is Nospeak, She Blinded Me With Science, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A documentary made a few years back, but still broadly relevant today. It’s all about how corporate lobbyists control government, and how corporate interests control media, and the dangers to democracy that result from this high degree of corporatization. The … Continue reading →

Posted in BushCo Death Watch, Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Good to Know, If You REALLY Care, Newspeak is Nospeak, The United States of Amnesia | 1 Comment

Festive Left Friday Blogging: The kids are all right…or should I say LEFT?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Who says so? No less an authority than The Pew: Young people — the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement — might be getting more comfortable with socialism. … Continue reading →

Posted in Festive Left Friday Blogging, Newspeak is Nospeak, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!, The "Well, DUH!" Files, The United States of Amnesia | 3 Comments

Cristina gets cancer, Chavecito gets topical, Jezebel gets Teh Stoopid

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Dear lord, what is it with progressive LatAm leaders getting the fucking C-word? First it was Dilma, then Lugo, then Chavecito, then Lula, and now Cristina? President Cristina Kirchner is suffering from a papillary cancer in the right lobe of … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Don't Cry For Argentina, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Morticia! You Spoke French!, Newspeak is Nospeak, She Blinded Me With Science, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | 3 Comments

China: A village fights back

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Sabina Becker

The story, courtesy of the UK Telegraph: For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt. The last of Wukan’s dozen … Continue reading →