Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Updating of Cuban economic model continues to advance...
SHARE The Council of Ministers, in a September 21 meeting presided by President Raúl Castro Ruz, approved a group of policies which respond to various Economic and Social Policy Development Guidelines of the Communist Party and the Revolution, thus continuing to move forward with the updating of Cuba's economic model.

(1 comments)        Thursday, May 9, 2013
A Very Brief Review of "The Economic War Against Cuba" at Monthly Review
SHARE It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of the U.S. government's ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people.

       Saturday, April 20, 2013
American Buffet, by Sue Warrior
SHARE Sue Warrior, a self-described "couch potato with only two eyes," has published poetry, fiction, essays and articles in various on-line and hard-copy journals. She has no cats. Nor does she own a car, preferring to travel to and from her home to her studio by bicycle or if absolutely necessary, on foot.

(2 comments)        Thursday, April 11, 2013
Dennis Hopper, Contemporary Artist
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(1 comments)        Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Degeneration Guaranteed
SHARE We will have to learn to live with Flickr Commons being representative of where Amerika's at.

(2 comments)        Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The Death of Hugo Chavez, by the Editors, Granma International
SHARE CARACAS, March 5. Hugo Rafael Chávez, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, died in the hours of this Tuesday afternoon. The announcement was made by Vice President Nicolás Maduro.

(4 comments)        Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Killing of Abraham Lincoln, on DirectTV, narrated by Tom Hanks
SHARE I've known for some time that Tom Hanks is a Hollywood Conservative, so I wasn't surprised when he concluded his narration of this Hollywood Blockbuster by saying Abraham Lincoln had insured (for all time), "government of the people, by the people and for the people..."

(1 comments)        Friday, February 15, 2013
Is This Forking Afghanistan?!?! - by Arthur Silber
SHARE Dateline February 13, 2013: A note for all the cheery, optimistic, dumbass types, who are always all like, "Oh, we're so much more advanced today than people were in the past. We're refined and f*cking civilized, man!" And at some point, they say something like, "It's not like we burn people at the stake anymore!"

       Thursday, February 14, 2013
For Your Information
SHARE Recently it came to light that Netflix can determine where your machine left its little indicators on their discs, and that occasioned my musings about how they already reap profits thereupon.

(3 comments)        Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Suicide by Rosemarie Jackowsky at Dissident Voice (02/5/2013)
SHARE The "Assisted Suicide Bill" does exactly what it is designed NOT to do. It will eliminate choice for the most vulnerable. Unintended consequences are sure to follow if this becomes law. Prejudice cloaked in good intentions is still prejudice.

(11 comments)        Thursday, January 31, 2013
I've got just one thing to get off my chest
SHARE And it has to do with OEN's drift toward complacency and conformity with the powers that be; in a word, it has to do with OEN's increasing conformance with other money-grubbing, mainstream newsy gab, AND her outright rejection of non-American radicalism in America, ie, her outright rejection of communist-tending or explicitly commie pieces.

       Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Lin Dinh Strikes Again ! !
SHARE It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's SUPER-LIN-DINH !

       Monday, January 21, 2013
Honor Martin Day
SHARE I was fortunate enough to witness a sermon by Doctor Martin Luther King in Massachusetts in 1962. And the following picture from Wikipedia is the very spitting image still in my memory.

       Saturday, January 19, 2013
Now on LMN (Ladies' Movie Network), at a Television Near You,
SHARE Below is Barbara Hershey in the stunning movie "Left To Die":

(3 comments)        Friday, January 11, 2013
Vik Muniz's Award-Winning DVD, Waste Land.
SHARE Once upon a time there was an excellent contemporary Brazilian artist who did his thing for the largest garbage dump in the world, which is located outside Rio de Janeiro, and for Hollywood, which is not, and the result of Vik Muniz's efforts became a prize-winning DVD called Waste Land (released in 2010 and available at Netflix). I've watched it twice and I'm here to say it is something, something which probably warrants watching more than twice.

       Sunday, January 6, 2013
West Virginia Good Ole Boy Joke
SHARE A Virginia State trooper pulled a car over on I-64 about 2 miles south of the Virginia/ West Virginia State line.

(3 comments)        Friday, January 4, 2013
Chris Hedges on LinkTV
SHARE I watched Chris Hedges yesterday morning on LinkTV, for about 45 minutes, and I must say that after having read so many complimentary things about him at OpEdNews I was disappointed.

(6 comments)        Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The Excellence of LinkTV Continues,
SHARE Many of us actually spend time watching television, and even the boob tube has its moments. A new series of shows has appeared on LinkTV and they appear around-the-clock on Direct TV in northern California at Channel 375.

(2 comments)        Sunday, December 30, 2012
No Picture Necessary: An UnChristmas Story, 2012, by Arthur Silber
SHARE "Yes, sir. We've been tracking them for the last week. They've been traveling through an area controlled by that terrorist group we're watching. Every night, they've stayed at the homes of people who are family relations or friends to someone we suspect of being a terrorist. All of them are involved with those protests about taxes, the land appropriation policy, and the forced labor program. As you know, sir, some of those protests have been very violent."

       Sunday, December 23, 2012
For Ms Cindy Sheehan,
SHARE Ahead of her time,

       Monday, December 31, 2012
LinkTV is Good Commercial TV ! ! !
SHARE It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but Channel 375 on DirectTV (in northern California only?) is very good TV. And even OEN contributors must have downtimes when we have to relax, and yes, even click on the ole boob tube.

(4 comments)        Sunday, June 3, 2012
What Did Neils Bohr Know, and When Did He Know It?
SHARE In the beginning, there was knowledge about the structure of the atom, and the consequent destructive power implicit in that structure, if use of this knowledge were not kept secret. And there was a brilliant Jewish physicist named Neils Bohr, a Dane, who lived in Denmark even while Hitler was ranting out loud about rounding up European Jews for a final solution in Germany and eastern Europe. And this brilliant physicist was already an insider in the Danish government, which was evidently ignorant of the genocide being practiced at this very time by the American Air Force while setting up an (atomic) bomber-launching site in Greenland, genocide against the native Greenlanders who lived in those icy climes.