I There is a good website for the trial of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, for very serious human rights violations in Peru. The trial begins 10 December 2007 in Lima. This video has a slightly anti-Asian frame (Fujimori fled to Japan and claimed Japanese citizenship at one point, and he is known in Peru as “El … More Alberto Fujimori
Tower of Babel – Western Epistemology, by Jennifer Cascadia. A snippet: “Rational thinking has become a lost art, and catering to one another’s ‘perceptions’ by treating all perceptions (no matter how outlandish) as if they were already valid components of reality itself has become more common. In other words, social interactions have become politicised. . … More On Perception and Reality
Via Truthout: Today a huge mining corporation, Grupo México, has provoked a strike by demanding that miners work 12 hours a day instead of eight in Peru’s largest copper mine. The Peruvian government supports the company, because it believes longer hours and lower wages will attract more foreign investment. Since NAFTA passed, the same company … More Andean “Free” Trade
Esta tarde llueve, como nunca; y no tengo ganas de vivir, corazón. Esta tarde es dulce. Por qué no ha de ser? Viste gracia y pena; viste de mujer. Esta tarde en Lima llueve. Y yo recuerdo las cavernas crueles de mi ingratitud; mi bloque de hielo sobre su amapola, más fuerte que su “No … More Heces de César Vallejo
Read this by Greg Palast. It appears that Hillary Clinton‘s old law partner did time for refusing to testify against her . . . and was paid $500K for it by the Little Rock company Entergy and its partners, the Riady family of Indonesia. There is much more to it and it all has to … More On Entergy
This is for everyone, but especially for anyone who has been told by persons untrained in literature and unaware of the labyrinth which is autobiography, that it is “dishonest” to have a writing persona which does not correspond to a “true” self. “To the Strand, to my bookseller’s, and there bought an idle, rogueish French … More El laberinto del yo
There are famous living writers who blog, including but hardly limited to Carmen Boullosa, Laila Lalami, and Cristina Rivera Garza. James Baldwin, who is not living, maintains a page on MySpace. But did you know that pre-20th century figures such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Samuel Pepys were also blogging? Do you know … More Blogging from the Other Side
One of the prisoners I work with was convicted in part through an FBI error. Now there is another. …[T]he FBI lab has never gone back to determine how many times its scientists misled jurors. Internal memos show that the bureau’s managers were aware by 2004 that testimony had been overstated in a large number … More A Famous Reason to Oppose the Death Penalty
“If y’all are losing, who’s winning? ‘Cause it ain’t us.” Meet Chris Rock, commenting on the situation of white people who, as we know, are suffering renewed oppression. We like to argue and speculate about race, but class – long a taboo topic in “A-merry-ca” (h/t Field Negro) where everyone can “pursue happiness” – has … More On Neoliberalism and the White Man’s Lament
When my university discovered the Wikipedia and decided it could not be cited as a source in dissertations because it was not authoritative, I laughed. While I do strongly encourage students to consult reference works of all sorts, and while I like the Wikipedia, I do not allow citation from any encyclopedias or handbooks. However … More Conservapedia
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