Some Favourite Sites

News & Current Events

See the Alternative Media list I compiled for Connexions here.

 

Political

Connexions - A library of documents about democratization, economic justice, environmental responsibility, civil liberties, and the creation and preservation of community. I am the co-ordinator/managing editor of Connexions.

Climate & Capitalism - Online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative.

Green Left Weekly - Independent Australian publication/Web site committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality, providing local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate for the anti-capitalist movement.

Insurgent Notes - Libertarian communist journal.

libcom.org - Radical news and analysis from libertarian communist, anarchist and left-marxist perspective.

Marxists Internet Archive - Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and others in the Marxist tradition.

Other Voices - A digest, published every two weeks, edited by Ulli Diemer, of new and archival content from the Connexions website and other progressive websites. Regular features include a selection of new articles, news about grassroots archives and people’s history, website of the week, book of the week, film of the week, and other news and resources.

Solidarity - A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine.

 

Blogs & Personal Websites

Williamblum.org - Archived website of the late William Blum.

Break Their Haughty Power - Loren Goldner’s website.

Bureau of Public Secrets - Ken Knabb’s Situationist site: “Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune”.

Chomsky.info - Noam Chomsky’s website.

Jonathan Cook - Cook is a British journalist reporting from Israel/Palestine.

Cedric Johnson - Cedric Johnson is associate professor of African American studies and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Caitlin Johnstone - A socialist whose writings focus especially on exposing the establishment narrative control apparatus.

Kenan Malik - Kenan Malik’s Pandaemonium website.

Craig Murray - Scottish author and human rights advocate.

Maryam Namazie - Advocating free speech, secularism, and women’s rights.

JohnPilger.com - The films and journalist of John Pilger.

Adolph Reed - Socialist scholar specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics.

Michael Riordon - Michael Riordon: the view from where I live.

Sahra Wagenknecht - Member of the German Left Party (“Die Linke”).

 

Research & Reference

Sources - Expert sources and media spokespersons ready to answer questions on their areas of expertise.

The Canadian Encyclopedia - A wealth of information about Canada, especially Canadian history.

Wikipedia - Often the place to go for a first look at an unfamiliar topic, though not the last word on it.

Connexipedia - Social justice encyclopedia.

ibiblio - Large online library.

Improbable Research - Fun with research.

 

Miscellaneous

Bat Conservation International - A site devoted to bats.

International Dark Sky Association - Fighting the light pollution that makes it increasingly impossible for most of us to see the stars in the night sky.

PostModernism Generator - Automatically generates post-modernist essays.

Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence - Originally 100 Proofs of God’s Existence, but they found more. Number 17 is arguably the most persuasive, though number 145 will appeal to many people.

 

Video

The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough introduces the incredible lyre bird.

Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment - There are many; I like this one.



Off the Bookshelf: What I’ve Been Reading

Most recent at the top

Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist. Brewster Kneen

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. Eric Hobsbawm

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas. Stephen Jay Gould

The Grid. Philip Kerr

Catch a Fire: Life Tales. Murray MacAdam

The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird: Essays on the common and the extraordinary. Tim Bowling

Stump Ranch Chronicles and Other Narratives. Rolf Knight

A Diet to Die For. Joan Higgs

Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes. Stephen Jay Gould

The cuckoo’s calling. Robert Galbraith

A Man of Our Times: The life-history of a Japanese-Canadian fisherman. Rolf Knight and Maya Koizumi. The story of Ruichi Yoshida.

A Runner’s Journey. Bruce Kidd

Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography. Catherine Owen (ed.)

Open Heart, Open Mind. Clara Hughes

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond

Der Unendliche Augenblick: Warum Zeiten der Unsicherheit so wertvoll sind. Natalie Knapp

1493. Charles C. Mann.

When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography. Jill Ker Conway

Blue Highways. William Least Heat Moon (the third time I've read it)

Dance on the Earth. Margaret Laurence

The Meaning of Everything. Simon Winchester

Into the Looking-Glass Wood. Alberto Manguel

The Smallest Objective. Sharon Kirsch

Circle in the Darkness. Diana Johnstone

Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter, by Astrid Lindgren

Call the Midwife. Jennifer Worth

Otherwise. Farley Mowat

The Trouble with Islam. Irshad Manji

Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944. J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton

Howl Like the Wolves: Growing Up in Nazi Germany. Max von der Grün

The Great Lakes. Robert Thomas Allen.

The St. Lawrence Valley. Ken Lefoli.

The Atlantic Coast. Franklin Russell.

A Very Ordinary Life. Rolf Knight and Phyllis Knight

A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books. Alberto Manguel.

A People’s History of the German Revolution. By William A. Pelz

That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority. Leon Rosselson

Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s. Ernest Tate

Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women’s Running Revolutionary. By Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox

Where Is Here? Canada’s Maps and the Stories They Tell. By Alan Morantz

POW: Behind Canadian Barber Wire. David J. Carter

Escape from Canada!. John Melady.

The Other Side of Silence. Philip Kerr.

The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture. Walter Kendrick.

The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis. Phyllis Grosskurth.

Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man: A Memoir. Eric Wright

The Lying Stones of Marrakech. Stephen Jay Gould

November Rain. Maureen Jennings

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin

Money for Nothing. Donald Westlake

A Legacy of Spies. John Le Carré

Ever Since Darwin. Stephen Jay Gould

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. By J.D. Vance

Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: Volumes 1-4

Injichaag: My Soul in Story. Rene Meshake & Kim Anderson

Ironies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism. Isaac Deutscher

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemcial Boyhood. Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars. Oliver Sacks

Walden. Henry David Thoreau

An Unauthorized Biography of the World. Michael Riordon

A Song of Lilith. Poem by Joy Kogawa, Artwork by Lilian Broca

The Morningside World of Stuart McLean. Stuart McLean

A Dirty Job. Christopher Moore

Notebooks 1936-1947. Victor Serge

Das doppelte Lottchen. Erich Kästner

If the Dead Rise Not. Philip Kerr

Holocaust to Resistance: My journey. by Suzanne Berliner Weiss

Sister Language. Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie

A Very Easy Death. Simone de Beauvoir

Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto. Peter Graham with Ian MacKay

Elegy for Iris. John Bayley.

The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story. Arundhati Roy

Capitalism: A Crime Story. Harry Glasbeek

The River of Consciousness. Oliver Sacks

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Andrés Reséndez.

Musicopilia. Oliver Sacks.

A Book of Surrealist Games. Compiled by Alastair Brotchie; Edited by Mel Gooding.

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I: Economic Writings 1. Rosa Luxemburg.

An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Robin Blackburn

Gently to Nagasaki. Joy Kogawa.

The Price of Butcher’s Meat. Reginald Hill.

Death Comes for the Fat Man. Reginald Hill.

An Execution in the Family. Robert Meeropol.

Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side. Michael Riordon.

A Most Wanted Man. John Le Carré.

Roads to Quoz. William Least Heat-Moon.

Preface to the Phenomenology. G. W. F. Hegel.

Mirrors. Educardo Galeano.

On the Natural History of Destruction. W.G. Sebald.

The World Turned Upside Down. Christopher Hill.

Our Way to Fight. Michael Riordon.

Radicalism in America. Sidney Lens.

Primitive Rebels. Eric Hobsbawm.

Ten Days That Shook the World. John Reed.

The Paris Commune of 1871: The View from the Left.

What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thomas Frank.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on education and social change. Myles Horton, Paulo Freire.

A Paradise Built in Hell. Rebecca Solnit.

Memories of Fire. Eduardo Galeano.

Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate. Alberto Manguel. 2000

Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945. Richard Löwenthal; Patrik von zur Mühlen.

Six Men. Alistair Cooke.

On the Road. Jack Kerouac.

Catch 22. Joseph Heller.

Dialogues of the Dead. Reginald Hill.

One Step Behind. Henning Mankell.

The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World. Joel Kovel.

Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era. David Herbert Donald.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Richard Dawkins.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Charles C. Mann.

The World Without Us. Alan Weisman.

Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory. Staughton Lynd & Andrej Grubacic.

Lincoln. Gore Vidal.

Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky. Normand Baillargeon.

I Have Lived Here Since the World Began. Arthur J. Ray.

Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Kenan Malik.

Hell & High Water: Canada and the Italian Campaign. Lance Goddard.

The Joy of Revolution. Ken Knabb.

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould.

A Century of Noir. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins.

The History of Costa Rica. Ivan Molina & Steven Palmer.

We CAN Change the World: The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life. David G. Stratman.

The Library at Night. Alberto Manguel.

Pierre Berton: A Biography. A.B. McKillop.

Beyond a Boundary. C.L.R. James.

A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium. Chris Harman.

The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Thomas Pakenham.

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870. Hugh Thomas.

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Marshall Berman.

The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore. Robert Finch.

Amish Life. John A. Hostetler.

Darwin and the Beagle. Alan Moorehead.

Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. Noam Chosmky.

Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography. William Lee Miller.

The Ax. Donald Westlake.

Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.

A Green History of the World. Clive Ponting

Surrealism. Michael Robinson

The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins.

The Essential Calvin & Hobbes. Bill Watterson

The Tree. Colin Tudge

To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee

Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes.

Anne of Green Gables. L.M. Montgomery

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet. Elaine Feinstein

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge. Miranda Seymour

Dark Age Ahead. Jane Jacobs

The Ice House. Minette Walters

The Ability to Forget. Norman Levine

A Multitude of Sins. Richard Ford

The Bridges of Madison County. Robert James Waller

Dialogues of the Dead. Reginald Hill

The Constant Gardener. John Le Carré

Forty Stories. Anton Chekhov

Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991. Eric Hobsbawm

Blue Highways. William Least Heat Moon

 

Films I’ve Been Watching

Most recent at the top

Cave of Forgotten Dreams. (Werner Herzog)

Departures (Okuribito)

Dawson City: Frozen Time

The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

Carla’s Song (Ken Loach)

The Navigators (Ken Loach)

The Young Karl Marx

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Double Indemnity

Captain’s Paradise

Rebel in the Rye

I Am Not Your Negro

Un Chinois tombe du ciel!

The Overture

East Side Sushi

Sine Fronteras

The Gardens of Litte Italy

I, Daniel Blake

Sweet Bean

Last Train Home

Going in Style

Pride

Nobody Knows

Adrift in Tokyo

Dogs on the Inside

Queen of Katwe

Moonlight

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Baran

Kedi

Ballad of a Soldier

Women Without Men

Secret Ballot

Snowden

Raju

Corpo Celeste

All Governments Lie

Shun Li and Poet

Bagdad Cafe

On the Rhumba River

Free State of Jones

The Devil’s Miner

Pele: Birth of a Legend

The Book Thief

Battleship Potemkin. 1925

West Side Story

Trumbo

Ida. 2014. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska

Paddle to the Sea.

Inch’Allah Dimanche. 2001. Directed by Yamina Benguigui.

CitizenFour. 2014. Directed by Laura Poitras.

Monsiuer Hulot’s Holiday. 1952. Tati.

Since Otar Left... 2004. Directed by Julie Bertuccelli.

Avatar. 2009. Directed by James Cameron.

Hermitage Revealed. 2014. Directed by Margy Kinmonth.

La Pivellina (Little Girl). 2009. Directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. Asia Crippa, Patrizia Gerardi, Walter Saabel, Tairo Caroli

Ladies in Lavender.2004. Directed by Charles Dance.

Grand Budapest Hotel.2014. Directed by Wes Anderson.

Kitchen Stories. 2003. Directedy by Bent Hamer.

Finding Vivian Maier. 2013. Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel.

West Side Story. 1961. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn

Found Memories (Historias que so existem quando lembradas). Directed by Julia Murat. Sonia Guedes, Lisa Favero, Luiz Serra.

Foreign Correspondent. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Black Balloon. 2008. Directed by Elissa Down.

Ilo Ilo. 2013. Directed by Anthony Chen.

My Cousin Vinny. 1992. Directed by Jonathan Lynn.

The Angels’ Share. 2012. Directed by Ken Loach.

Even the Rain. 2010. Directed by Ic젲 Bolla쬮

The Artist. 2011. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius.

11 Flowers. 2012. Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai,

Lincoln. 2012. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

Hannah Arendt. 2012. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Barbara Sukowa.

The Big Lebowski. 1998. Directed by Joel Coen.

Tomboy. 2011. Directed by Celine Sciaman.

Still Walking. 2008. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Yoshio Harada, Kirin Kiki.

Le Havre. 2011. Written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel.

Bread and Roses. 2000. Directed by Ken Loach. Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo.

The Kid with a Bike. 2011. Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Cécile de France, Thomas Doret.

De vrais mensonges. 2010. Directed by Pierre Salvadori. Audrey Tautou, Sami Bouajila, Nathalie Baye.

Cinema Paradiso. 1988. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin.

The First Grader. 2010. Directed by Justin Chadwick. Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge.

Laila’s Birthday. (Eid milad Laila). 2008. Directed by Rashid Masharawi. Mohammed Bakri, Areen Omari, Nour Zoubi.

The Middle of the World. (O Caminho das Nuvens). 2003. Directed by Vincente Amorin. Wagner Moura, Claudia Abreu, Ravi Ramos Lacerda.

The Milagro Beanfield War. 1988. Directed by Robert Redford. Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga.

Particle Fever. 2013. Directed by Mark Levinson.

Le Quattro Volte. 2011. Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino.

Tsotsi. 2005. Directed by Gavin Hood. Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe.

Umberto D. 1952. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari.

Monsieur Lazhar. 2011. Directed by Philippe Falardeau. Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nelisse, Emilien Neron.

Je veuz voir (I want to see). 2008. Directed by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige. Catherine Deneuve.

Il Posto. 1962. Directed by Ermanno Olmi. Sandro Panseri, Loredana Detto.

Sugar. 2009. Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland.

The Snow Walker. 2003. Directed by Charles Martin Smith. Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell.

Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light). 2010. Directed by Patricio Guzmán.

Salt of the Earth. 1954. Directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe, Mervin Williams, David Sarvis, Ernesto Velázquez, Juan Chacón, Henrietta Williams.

Takva: A Man’s Fear of God.. 2006. Directed by özer Kiziltan. Erkan Can, Güven Kiraç, Meray ülgen.

20 Fingers. 2004. Mania Akbari. Bijan Daneshmand, Mania Akbari

The Informant. 2009. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt.

Le Voyage En Armenie. (Journey to Armenia.) Directed by Robert Guediguian. 2006. Ariane Ascaride, Marcel Bluwal, Gerard Meylan, Simon Abkarian, Serge AvÉdikian, Chorik Grigorian, Roman Avinian, Kristina Hovakimian, Madeleine Guediguian.

Eight Men Out. Directed by John Sayles. 1988. John Cusack, David Strathairn, Michael Rooker, Michael Lerner, Charlie Sheen, Christopher Lloyd, Clifton James, John Sayles, Studs Terkel

Kandahar. Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. 2001. Nelofer Pazira.

High Hopes. Directed by Mike Leigh. 1988. Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna DorÉ, Philip Jackson.

Limbo. Directed by John Sayles. 1999. David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Vanessa Martinez.

Looking for Eric. Directed by Ken Loach. 2009. Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop

Sunshine State. Directed by John Sayles. 2002. Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Jane Alexander, Alan King, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Cobbs.

Invictus. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 2009. Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon.

The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick. 1998. Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, John Cusack.

The Secret in Their Eyes. Directed by Juan JosÉ Campanella. 2009. Ricardo DarÍn, Soledad Villamil, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella, Pablo Rago.

Ballast. Directed by Lance Hammer. 2008. Michael J. Smith, JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail.

Amal. Directed by Richie Mehta. 2007. Rupinder Nagra, Koel Purie, Seema Biswas, Roshan Seth, Naseeruddin Shah.

Divided We Fall (MusÍme si pomáhat). Directed by Jan Hrebejk. 2000. Boleslav Polivka, Jaroslav Dusek, Anna Siskova, Csongor Kassai.

Lemon Tree. Directed by Eran Riklis. 2008. Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael.

Slumdog Millionaire. Directed by Danny Boyle. 2008. Dev Patel.

1900. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. 1976. Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster.

Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones. 1979. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Sue Jones-Davies

Padre padrone. Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. 1977. Saverio Marconi, Fabrizio Forte, Gavino Ledda

The Death of a Cyclist. Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955. Alberto Closas, Lucia Bosé

The Education of a Fairy. Directed by José Luis Cuerda. 2005. Ricardo Darin, Irene Jacob, Victor Valdina Reina.

La Vie En Rose. Directed by Olivier Dahan. 2007. The life of Edif Piaf. Marion Cotillard.

Honeydripper. Directed by John Sayles. 2007. Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Clark Jr.

Beshkempir (The Adopted Son). Directed by Aktan Abdykalykov. 1998. Mirlan Abdykalykov.

Occupation 101. Directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish. 2007. Documentary.

Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others). Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2007. Ulrich Mühe.

Roads to Koktebel. Directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Aleksei Popogrebsky. 2003. Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Csernyevics.

Monsoon Wedding. Directed by Mira Nair. 2001.

Offside. Directed by Jafar Panahi. 2006.

Harlan County USA. Directed by Barbara Kopple. 1976. Documentary.

Ma Vie En Rose. Directed by Alain Berliner. 1997. Georges du Fresne.

Avenge But One of My Two Eyes. Directed by Avi Mograbi. 2006. Documentary.

The Piano. Directed by Jane Campion. 1993. Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel.

The Ramallah Concert. Daniel Barenboim and the East-West Divan Orchestra. 2005. Documentary.

Casa de los babys. 2003. Directed by John Sayles. Daryl Hannah, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen.

The Straight Story. Directed by David Lynch. 1999. Richard Farnsworth.

Serko. Directed by Joel Farges. 2006. Aleksei Chadov.

Lone Star. 1996. Directed by John Sayles. Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Stephen Mendillo.

Passion Fish. 1992. Directed by John Sayles. Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett.

The Enigma of Kapsar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle). Directed by Werner Herzog. 1974. Bruno S.

Amélie. (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) Directed Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 2001. Audrey Tautou.

Matewan. Directed by John Sayles. 1987. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe, Will Oldham, Jace Alexander.

The Brother from Another Planet. Directed by John Sayles. 1984. Joe Morton, David Strathairn, John Sayles.

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. Directed by Vincent Ward. 1989. Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood.

The Secret of Roan Inish. Directed by John Sayles. 1994. Jeni Courtney.

Schultze Gets the Blues. Directed by Michael Schorr. 2004. Horst Krause.

Vera Drake. Directed by Mike Leigh. 2004. Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney.



 

Past Gleanings

Turn off the Canadian Media, Please Justin Podur says the Canadian media are a biased little niche of pro-Israeli spin, and should be seen that way.

Israel Is Losing This War Uri Avnery writes: What will be seared into the consciousness of the world will be the image of Israel as a blood-stained monster, ready at any moment to commit war crimes and not prepared to abide by any moral restraints. This will have severe consequences for our long-term future, our standing in the world, our chance of achieving peace and quiet.

Women Living Under Muslim Laws An international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women Initiated by a group of activists, lawyers, journalists, and academics, who are committed to ending the stoning and killing of women.

The Brick Testament An illustrated Bible that even atheists can appreciate.

Manifestos, Political Statements, Programs, Visions A page of radical and progressive manifestos.

Against Multiculturalism Kenan Malik says that A truly plural society would be one in which citizens have full freedom to pursue their different values or practices in private, while in the public sphere all citizens would be treated as political equals whatever the differences in their private lives.

Rationality/Science Noam Chomsky defends the principles of rational inquiry against postmodernist ’critiques’

Why Israel? Jason Kunin asks: Why does Israel deserve sanctions?

The Stupid Opinion That All Opinions are Equal: Elsa Schieder is frustrated by illogical people.

Royal Moments in Broadcasting

 



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