By Mark | February 13, 2012
I just received a note from a U.S. expatriate living in France, asking me to confirm whether or not what he’d heard today on the BBC about a homeless encampment on the outskirts of Ann Arbor was indeed true… Sadly, I had to tell him that Camp Take Notice was in fact real. Here’s a […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Alana Gehringer, black mould, Brian Calley, Brian Durance, Bush tax cuts, Camp Take Notice, homeless encampments, homelessness, hunger in America, rats, Reagan M. Sova, tent cities |
By Mark | February 1, 2010
A few days ago, I came across this provocative quote from Jewish author Norm Finkelstein, and thought about sharing it here: “Every single member of my family on both sides were exterminated… I consider nothing more dispicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition […]
Posted in Other, Religious Extremism | Also tagged assassination, holocaust, Israel, Jewish settlements, lethal injection, Norm Finkelstein, occupied territories, Palestine, Palestinians, Panorama |
By Mark | January 31, 2010
Instead of following my heart tonight and writing about the colossally fucked-up narcissist John Edwards, I’ve decided to share a link to a BBC piece about why we Americans so often vote against our own best interests. (I love watching the relatively level-headed Brits trying to understand the Tea Partification of their former colonies.) The […]
Posted in Observations, Politics | Also tagged anti-intellectualism, authenticity, Davide Runciman, death panels, defunding public schools, Economics, elitism, fake sincerity, French Revolution, French Revolution in reverse, How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, John Edwards, public education, school vouchers, speaking from the gut, stupid Americans, Tea Partyfication, the concentration of wealth, Thomas Frank, voting against your own interests, What's the Matter with Kansas? |
By Mark | January 24, 2010
In July 2003, the body of former United Nations weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was found in the woods, near his home in Oxfordshire, England. Kelly had, shortly before this, been outed as the source of a BBC news report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Kelly, it would seem, disagreed with the government of […]
Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Chilcot Inquiry, CIA, conspiracy theories, David Kelly, Harrowdown Hill, Hutton Inquiry, Iraq war, Joe Wilson, July 2003, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Lord Hutton, many dark actors playing games, Oxfordshire, post mortem, suicide, The Brits, United Nations, Valerie Plame, weapons inspectors, weapons of mass destruction, WMD |
