Archive for August, 2004
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
Following on from the previous discussion about Venezuala, authoritarianism, and poverty in general, this article by Medea Benjamin outlines just what it is that Chavez has been doing right.
Posted in Society and culture | Comments Off on Social programmes in Venezuala
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
I've just had an interesting (off-line) discussion with Zwichenzug of the Bellman about land reform, poverty, and populist politics (partly in response to his post about Chavez and Venezuala. He has a good point, in that producing good rhetoric and being disliked by TPTB (the powers that be) isn't necessarily ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on From the “You can’t be serious” department
Sunday, August 15th, 2004
Courtesy of ZNet we get the following figures for inequality in various nations (in the context of an essay on Venzuala):According to UN figures, the richest 10 per cent of the Venezuelan population has 62.9 times the yearly income of the poorest 10 per cent. (The comparable ratio for the ...
Posted in Income and poverty | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 13th, 2004
If this is photoshopped, they've done a good job:
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Is this real?
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
Wow. The UK Appeals Court has ruled that evidence gained by torture can be used as long as the torture is not committed by British agents. As the article says, this supports the 'contracting out' - or, I suppose, 'outsourcing' - of torture that the US is already experimenting with.
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on Torture OK, as long as you get someone else to do it?
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
The Columbia Journalism Review's Campaign Desk has a summary and critique of the electronic voting debate in the United States, and media coverage of it.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on CJR on evoting
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
Amazing to see the NYT actually pay attention to the class bias implicit in unpaid internships, especially in politics. I must say that I was very lucky to be living at home while I was an undergrad - it allowed me to, for example, work with Flirt FM without being ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Income and poverty, Personal | Comments Off on Internships and class divisions
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
I wonder if this will work.
Posted in Radio | Comments Off on Flash Radiojacking
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
Are you ready for National Preparedness Month?
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Preparing for Preparedness
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
By chance I read two pieces about John Kerry's service in Vietnam side by side - one in the Telegraph of London and another in Counterpunch. Obviously the authors come from different political perspectives. Steyn, in the Telegraph, pokes holes in Kerry's narrative of his service in Vietnam, exposing flaws ...
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on Kerry’s war record