Culture
Gerald Horne: Fighting Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii
Gerald Horne, Fighting Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 2011) 459 pp First let me apologize to Gerry Horne, since I promised to review this massively researched , absorbing, and important history months ago.
What Must Be Said
What must be saidWhy have I been silent, silent for so long?,Our generals have gamed it out,Confident the west will survive.We people have not even been considered.What is this right to “preventive war”?A war that could erase the Iranian people.Dominated by it’s neighbor, pulsing with righteousnessSmug in the fact that it is they, not Iran,Who have the Bomb.Why have I so far avoided to identify Israel by it’s name?,Israel and it’s ever increasing nuclear arsenal,Beyond reproach, Uncontrolled, uninspected.We all know these thingsYet we all remain silent, fearful of being labeled:anti-SemitichatefulworseConsidering Germany’s past these labels stickSo we call is “business”, “reparation” take your pick,As we deliver yet another submarine.As we provide to Israel the means to deliver annihilation.
Sones del Zócalo
Mexico City sones terremoto bluesA Mexican Johnny Depp look-a-likeis condemned to play Edward Scissorhands on a street-cornerAnother Mexican, with the square jaw of Michael Keatonin full Batman regaliaposes for photographs with tourists and other passerby's
London and Orwell
london and orwell london and orwellrevolution on the riseand beating retreatlondon and orwellintellectuals engagedand then in despairlondon and orwellfanon's question of our tasksfulfill or betray?berkeley ca 3-8-2012
IT
IT (originally published in Pemmican)The U.S. government should balance its budget ... just like the Coppolla family does,"Eddie the custodian says.The Republicans in the election seek to win popular supportfor destroying the gains of the New Dealby raising the banner of a "Contract With America." "There is no free lunch in industry...why should there be onein government,"says the Jamal the clerical.The real aim of their campaign against "Big Government"is to institute taxcutsand other government handoutsto big business and the rich.
