I’ve just recently finished reading US economist Charles Wheelan’s Naked Economics. The book is intended as an introduction to mainstream economics, and does indeed provide a clear and understandable entry into the so called ‘dismal science’, explaining the supposed purpose of various American, and World financial institutions along the way. Wheelan, himself, is very obviously [...]
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Reading Howard Jacobson’s piece on theIndependent Jewish Voices in Saturday’s Indy, I was struck by the thought that the IJV weren’t just asserting themselves against the consensus amongst the mainstream Jewish community on I/P, but, in fact, also against the prevailing view within mainstream Media and commentary. For example, check out the following excerpt from [...]
You’d have thought after 25 years of living in Scotland with its cold and its rain and its generally piss poor weather I would be able to bear the freezing temperatures during this February cold-snap. But I can’t. I really, really, hate it, I want to live in Barbados. The fact is that the cold [...]
Check out this footage from an Iranian TV debate of Norman Finkelstein discussing the Iranian Holocaust Conference. He totally kicks ass. I hope it changes some people’s minds about NF, and counters the smears about him being a Holocaust denier. Part 2 of the discussion here (NF comes in at about 2 minutes) Part 3 [...]
The amazing Jew Sans Frontieres blog mention my Lenni Brenner piece. I’ve also been linked to by Pickled Politics reg, ZinZin, so I thought I should repay the compliment. As well as that I’ve decided to add a link to PP itself as I spend so much time there nowadays, as well as to a [...]
On Saturday I attended a talk by the American Marxist and anti-Zionist historian and author Lenni Brenner, organised by the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign as part of a series of events marking World Holocaust Week. The talk was held in a moderately sized room within the St-Stephens Church complex in Bath Street, very near the [...]
