Put on Your Flat Cap and Grab Your Whippet, We’re Off Home.

Oh, those pesky Tory ministers. Just when you thought they couldn’t alienate anymore social groupings, they go and pick a fight with northerners. Oliver Letwin – son of an LSE professor, alumni of Eton, and graduate of Cambridge University – has got himself into all sorts of bother by suggesting, in a discussion about airport expansion, that “we [...]

Red Cosmos : Red Rockets Over The Horizon (1)

“The United States is expressing its admiration, confusion and surprise” – October 1957 US newsreel In 1938 Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov had been identified as an enemy of the Soviet State. A Trotskyite plotter who had conspired with other missile designers and technicians to overthrow socialism and derail the Russian path to progress. Of course, Sergey [...]

The Shock Doctrine : The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism

Mcgill University (located in Montreal, Canada) has a stellar reputation as one of the worlds best educational institutions – ranking in the top 20 universities worldwide according to the Times Higher Education Guide. However, few people are aware of Mcgill’s significance in the history of the development of neo-liberalism. In the 1950s and 1960s, encouraged [...]

Earth Vs The Flying Saucers

The Star Trek episode with the gambling brains, Dixons ice cream and watching news footage of flying saucers over the Capitol Building lawn in 1952. These are the earliest memories I have of my childhood – that probably says a lot about my personal development thus far. . In regards to the first two, I [...]

US Foreign Policy In A Nutshell

Since 1945 the United States government has overtly or covertly been involved in the overthrow or attempted overthrow of numerous foreign regimes. There was Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Cuba in 1959 and 1961, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, Iraq in 1963, Brazil in 1964, Republic of Ghana in 1966, Iraq (again) in 1968, Chile [...]

A Religion And A Town Pt 4 – The Antecedents

Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 The town of Dewsbury has a population of 56,030, with the figure remaining steady over the last forty years. It sits on the trans-pennine rail link that travels between Newcastle and Manchester, a ten minute journey west takes citizens to Leeds, whilst to the East there is [...]

Fidel Castro Speech To UN General Assembly (1995)

Half a century ago, the United Nations Organization was born after the conclusion of a monsterous war when 10 million lives were lost at its peak moments. Presently, 20 million men, women and children are dying every year of hunger and curable diseases. Some wealthy nations have an 80-year life expectancy while others have hardly [...]

No We Can’t!

Considering that the United States sent a mission to the moon 41 years ago, it would not be particularly quixotic to point out that the ambitions of humanity have slowly dissipated since then. We can map the human genome but we cannot provide affordable healthcare for those in the richest nations, let alone for those in [...]

Vigilante Man

The late, great Woody Guthrie‘s “Vigilante Man” accompanied by some excellent footage from a 1975 documentary called “Brother Can You Spare Me a Dime”. The clip includes footage from the Bonus Riots of 1932, San Franscisco General Strike 1934, Republic Steel Strike 1937, General Motors Labor Strike 1937, and so is an interesting and important part of [...]

It’s Good To Be A Mother In Cuba

The Castro brothers and Cuba are at it again – thwarting US claims that the small socialist state off the coast of Florida is the linchpin in an ‘Axis of Evil‘. It turns out that Cuba is a pretty good place to be a mother. According to a report by Save The Children Cuba is the best [...]