In the wake of last week's election, there has been much gloating and vindication over the deceitful speciousness of right-wing media. What this glosses over, though, is that most US media are corporate-controlled and designed to deliver eyeballs to advertisers--they are not designed to inject deep and complex truths into the national discourse. Read More »
I was asked by an anarchist newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela to write about our recent election. I don't know if the readers knew much about our "system" of government. This is what I came up with. Read More »
"This country now must choose between love and fear. The latter engenders hate but, in my view as a monk, God would have us love God and each other, and everything flows from that love." - Santa Claus Read More »
By Blake Jones In a summer filled with blockbuster superhero movies such as “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “The Amazing Spiderman,” Free Press Houston set out on a mission to find some real caped crusaders. For the past few years, a group of civilians calling themselves the Xtreme Justice League have been patrolling the greater San Diego area in an attempt to “suppress evil.” Geared in masks and armor, and equipped with pepper spray and stun guns, these masked crime fighters take to the streets to help out those in need. Recently FPH got the opportunity to speak with XJL ... Read More »
You know what the politicians say (what their focus groups tell them you want to hear), you know what the pundits say (whatever will get them more ratings), and you know what the comics say (whatever will get them a cheap laugh)--now come hear the poets. Read More »
by Harbeer Sandhu Illustration by Blake Jones By framing the Oak Creek massacre as an isolated incident, we delude ourselves into thinking of it as a randomized event carried out by a troubled individual. However, if we place the gurdwara shooting within its broader context, we can clearly see that it fits a troubling pattern of hate and bigotry within this country. – Simran Jeet Singh, as quoted in the Huffington Post on 8/17/12 We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children. - “The 14 Words” credo favored by white supremacists I don’t mean ... Read More »
"The 'Drug War' kills more people than drugs themselves." - Tony Payan, Ph.D., Baker Institute (Rice University) Scholar for Immigration and Border Studies Read More »
"I am a Marxist and Socialist and/or Communist and a Trotskyist etc and a member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO). I'll cop to any of those..." Read More »
The trial of three members of the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, has begun. The three women, Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were arrested in early March on charges of“hooliganism” and have been in jail ever since. And as if five months behind bars for staging an impromptu performance in a cathedral isn’t bad enough, they are facing up to seven years in prison if found guilty. Pussy Riot is a feminist punk band from Russia that has been causing ‘trouble’ for almost a year now. Five of the ten members staged a performance on ... Read More »
This is the fourth FPH Librotraficante road report. For background, check out my previous articles: Books Are A Gateway Drug, Remember the Alamo, Revenge of the Nerds and Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso. This picks up where the last post left off. Following a late night at the hotel bar with painter Cesar Martinez, photographer Diana Molina, and bloggers Michael Sedano of La Bloga and Jesus Trevino of Latinopia, we are off again. Leaving El Paso, we are treated to a view of the border wall. The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo is little more than a dry ... Read More »
