All the sounds. All the noise. None of it, emanates from the real world. We have been made deaf to the sounds of the real world. We are forever drowning in an engineered reality, saturated in the deafening noise of the mega-Technopoly.

A review of the book: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll

Interview on the American war against drugs and the relationship of the Mexican government to Mexican narco gangs

Note to LA Times RE: Venezuela and Pluralism in the Media

3 days in central Athens with Algerian refugees listening to their stories and experiences. A chronic context but the humanity of the refugees shines through.

Glenn Greenwald speaks out against Amnesty's refusal to name Bradley Manning a Prisoner of Conscience

A Reuters Article that Might help Prevent Political Violence in Venezuela

The famine was one of history's rare socio-natural calamities in that it was predicted almost a year in advance, providing sufficient time to avert it

A reflection of former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt's closing statement at his dramatic trial for genocide in Guatemala City on May 9, 2013.

A reflection - in Spanish - of former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt's closing statement at his dramatic trial for genocide in Guatemala City on May 9, 2013.

“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt to close the most schools at one time in the nation, I don’t think you need another Columbine or Connecticut or another suicide because of bullying.” --- Sherise McDaniel, Chicago Public School pa...

Oilsands products and their pipelines are dangerous.

Keystone XL, Enbridge Northern Gateway and Plan 9 are all bitumen crude pipelines, and are therefore especially dangerous.

The May 2013 episode of Chicago Independent Television features segments on Chicago public school closings, and on oil fracking in Illinois.

We look at Golden Dawn's strategy for creating blood banks for Greeks (only) and the complicity of the Greek state.

The fast-processed-food, self-help-medicated, object-driven-mass-opinionated, techno-mania, the celebrity-glitz, the immiseration of reality and the commodification of the entire experience, the debauchery of the loveless, the elitism of the roman...

In the luminescence of their essences

The systematic attack on natural life forms by technology and science. The war on nature. The abandoning of earth.

Interview with Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian activist who worked to try to get villagers back to their homes, get people falsely accused out of jail, and win justice for victims

Have cell phone trees adapted themselves to be part of the natural tree oxygen cycle. This maybe one of the leading problems in global warming the proliferation of unnatural man made life forms.

The revolutionary spirit which Venezuela embodies may be the one thing that can save us from the current economic, political and moral morass

I consider myself a realist, as far as that is possible, and if that is radical, then all realism is radical

Votes for UKIP the right wing UK political party is an indication of a level hate politics gaining momentum over and above economic and social causes. With the Tory state and a dominant right wing press in the UK working the same message socliasts...

Bitumen crude pipelines are environmental catastrophes in the making. The planet cannot sustain any more such damage to its ecosphere.

Bitumen pipelines such as the proposed Keystone XL are environmental catastrophes waiting to happen. The planet cannot sustain any more of such damage to its ecosphere.