from CounterPunch by MICHAEL WELTONDeciphering the meaning of Neo-liberalism as a historical force and societal form requires the energies and know-how of a sagacious sleuth like Hercule Poirot. Wendy Brown, a philosophy professor at UCLA (Berkeley) and author of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, has a Poirot intellectual sensibility and … [Read more...] about American Nightmare: the Depravity of Neoliberalism
Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program
Here is a necessary addition to the literature on FBI harassment of Americans and on U.S. social movements over the last century.Philip ClarkLamda LiteraryNovember 27, 2015Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program By Douglas M. Charles University of Kansas Press ISBN: 9780700621194 I confess to a degree of skepticism when I began … [Read more...] about Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program
On lâche rien: 諦めないぞ！。
魂におけるユートピア主義者、精神におけるノマドであれ。 私たちは皆「世界の市民」です。 私たちの闘いは同じ、夢も同じ、理想も同じです。 何も手放さないぞ！ 北フランス出身のSaltimbanksのバンドより、 尊敬と友情と連帯をこめて。This is a very popular French video with Japanese subtitles.日本語の字幕 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miY5ZuB1lZM]This is the English version: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6jAegQzmI?list=PLR34WsuKJGk_EjicynTtjyh-UMK1NzkQ1] … [Read more...] about On lâche rien: 諦めないぞ！。
How the News Media Sees Okinawa
Originally published in the FCCJ #1, Nov 2015 Islands in the streaming news Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga meets the press.As the face-off between the prefectural and central governments continues, the good news is that press interest has increased and coverage has improved.by Michael Penn The confrontation between the leaders of the U.S.-Japan alliance and the … [Read more...] about How the News Media Sees Okinawa
My Lawsuit vs. the National Diet Press Club
from the #1 Shimbun, September 2015 Hajime Shiraishi outside the National Diet Press Club building.Two years after being denied access to a building shared by media organizations, a journalist tries to keep her case alive.by Hajime ShiraishiTHE FOUR-STORY NATIONAL DIET Press Club Building, located in the middle of the Kasumigaseki government district and a … [Read more...] about My Lawsuit vs. the National Diet Press Club