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    Chomsky Lecture Dublin - Tonight 7pm

    Droid: "Padraig - Im currently getting round to answering your post - " That shouldn't prove too challenging, given that you have yet to begin engaging in any actual discussion. Droid:"but Im wondering if I should bother now... http://irishantiwar.org/bboard/q-an...sh%20Anti%2dWar If your...
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    rd laing

    Hope so [before moving on to Lacan, that is ...]. But I always avoid carpaks.
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    Chomsky Lecture Dublin - Tonight 7pm

    "The ultimate paradox for me is that because he lacks a theoretical framework, Chomsky even gets the facts wrong sometimes ... Chomsky retains a certain commitment to what is the most elemental ingredient of American ideology, individualism, a fundamental belief that America is the land of free...
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    Chomsky Lecture Dublin - Tonight 7pm

    Chomsky talk: brief comment "The ultimate paradox for me is that because he lacks a theoretical framework, Chomsky even gets the facts wrong sometimes."===>Slavoj Zizek [see Kapital's [hysterical] Obstacles to the Impossible ] Just back from this public address by Chomsky. While as erudite...
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    Make BoBono History: Confronting the Geldof-Bono Obsenity

    Hi Woebot, Yes, ditto ... I first met U2/Bono not far from where I am at the moment (waiting to see Chomsky at UCD in a few minutes) - in 1979 at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin's Temple Bar. They were supporting punk poet Patrick Fitzgerald. But following their run-away success via the US...
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    Chomsky Lecture Dublin - Tonight 7pm

    I'm there now :) Will be saying "Hi Noam, been a while" Thursday at Tower Records, Wicklow St 3pm, [book signing]
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    Make BoBono History: Confronting the Geldof-Bono Obsenity

    And I hear Geldof has just been co-opted by Britain's Conservative Party as an advisor on global poverty: Geldof helps Tory poverty policy. So that's all nicely wrapped up then ... 'This will not make poverty history. It is vastly disappointing. Millions of campaigners all over the world have...
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    Nuclear strike against Iran due end of March

    For many years I've had the greatest respect for Michel Chossudovsky's reportage, commentaries, and analyses. His incisive and startling reports on such as The Destabilization of Haiti , America's Agenda for Global Military Domination, or America's War for Global Domination, are superb case...
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    Make BoBono History: Confronting the Geldof-Bono Obsenity

    Indeed. Just witness how last year's BB runner-up, the politically-articulate but ideologically-over-identified, Derek [Black, gay, and conservative, the new chic] has since fared - he's probably what provoked Galloway to have a go ... Further confirmed by the antics of assorted rock dinosaurs...
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    Make BoBono History: Confronting the Geldof-Bono Obsenity

    Make BoBono History: Confronting the Geldof-Bono Obscenity Greetings. As this is my first post to this forum, brevity shall necessarily prevail. We've probably all forgotten that mischievous non-event already, but ... "The repeated claim from onstage multi-millionaires that the audience were...
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