Interview with Jeff Chester, author of "Digital Destiny, New Media and the Future of Democracy," conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris netneutrality

News Junkie Scott's Blog (2/18/07)

Raising a child is one of the most gratifying jobs you'll ever have and one of the toughest.

The Spanish “Transition to democracy” was simply a way to fortify the capitalist economic model. With such Transition, the Spanish dominant class eliminated all sort of social resistance and opened the way for business; they made a Francoism without Franco and presented the Transition as a triumph of the people. It was a history written by the owners of money and their fascist sentries.
But Memory, Dignity and Struggle continue

This last month there have been reports on the Internet that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was re-introduci ng a federal hate law called the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. But the human reality is that you have a right to hate—it is part of your emotional makeup. You have a right to be who you are—a creature of feelings and thoughts and attitudes. Or to put it another way, you have a right to be a “sentient” being which includes the right to experience hatred. This law was designed to censor debate on the Zionist issue.

Four days after its official beginning on Monday, the general strike continues in Guinea. The production of C.G.B, the second leading Bauxite producer in the world, has been halted, the workers also having stopped the trains carrying ore, while the production of the other consortium continues to grind towards a halt (provoking incendiary inflation in the prices of bauxite and aluminum on the world market). All economic activities are paralysed.

The African Socialist International (ASI) calls on urgent support
for the freedom struggle in Guinea-Conakry; raises the slogan, “Touch One! Touch All!”

How UN peacekeepers are used as thuggish paramilitary enforcers.

Seth Dietz, Starbucks barista and IWW member in Rockville Maryland, tells his story:

real leadership versus foreign control