Category Archives: Teh Russkies

Photo du jour: Scary Russkies!

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Did Der Drumpf meet with Pooty-Poot? No pix, so I’m assuming he didn’t. However, we do have this: …which looks like a rather cordial and friendly meeting to me. Things that make you go hmmmm, eh?

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Venezuela and El Salvador recall ambassadors from Brazil

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Amid all the absolutely atrocious shit news from Latin America of late, there’s one bright spot: All the local progressive governments who are not taking putschism lying down. Whether it’s at home or in a country right nearby, they’re making … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl, 30 years later

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Sabina Becker

I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 18 at the time (yes, I realize I’m dating myself here!), and scared shitless of the implications. All of Europe was in a panic, as was all of the former Soviet … Continue reading →

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Why the Panama Papers matter: a victim’s-eye view

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Sabina Becker

War crimes, child sex slavery, the destruction of public services around the world…these are just a few of the horrors enabled by tax evasion, fraud, and offshore shell corporations. Is paying less in taxes really worth this to YOU?

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Photo du jour

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Barack Obama, in Cuba, in front of that famous mural based on THAT famous picture of Che. A sight for sore eyes, and one that many thought we’d never see. And one which right-wing idiots, completely forgetting Nixon in China, … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: We’ll see how brave you are…

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Sabina Becker

…and all your dollies have friends.

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Syria: Turkey tips its hand, NATO objectively pro-Daesh, Canada WTF?

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Sorry for that inelegant header, but this is gonna be an untidy post that covers a lot of rough ground, so hang onto your hats, kiddies. First up, a little video from that shootdown of a Russian Sukhoi yesterday: … Continue reading →

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Chris Alexander, refugee killer

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Chris Alexander killed little Alan Kurdi. Alan is the three-year-old Syrian boy whose drowned body, washed up on a Turkish beach, has been plastered all over the media, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. His mother, Reham, and older brother Galib, … Continue reading →

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Big bordello raid in four countries over human trafficking concerns

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Police vans outside the “Paradise” bordello in Stuttgart, Germany. This was not the only big bordello they raided; there were three others. But they hadn’t come to arrest the girls and women inside; instead, they were after those who had … Continue reading →

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Why isn’t legalized prostitution safer?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Ah yes. Pity the poor john who got the short end of that stick, eh? He came hoping to pay for the illusion that she was really into the “mutual pleasure” of his escapist fantasies, only to be left cockadroop … Continue reading →