Monday, July 28, 2014

Desert Rebels Against Dystopia

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"Good News,” by Edward Abbey, 1980 Abbey is the desert anarchist who wrote while working as a park ranger around the Grand Canyon...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Mutiny on the Bounty

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"Soldiers in Revolt – GI Resistance During the Vietnam War,” by David Cortright, 1975, intro by Howard Zinn This is a true work of...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Dive Down

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"Palmers Bar,” Minneapolis, West Bank (of the Mississippi River), Minnesota, USA Community is a word, and the actual reality is fl...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Revolution Continues

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"The End of the Revolution – China and the Limits of Modernity,” by Wang Hui, 2011 China contains the largest working class in th...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Nothingism

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ART is DEAD First God died, now this.  What to do?  The London Tate Modern museum is a perfect example of how various forms of Western ‘...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Scenes From The End Of The World

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"Last Train to the Zona Verde,” by Paul Theroux, 2013 Theroux confirms that Africa is the home to the most ghettoized cities in ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Workers of All Lands Unite

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Left in London Tourism is a not always about   beer and pasta or museums.   In London, with its long history of capitalism and labor,...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Whereas Our Hero Falls a Bit Flat

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"Capital in the 21 st Century,” by Thomas Piketty, 2013 - Second Review - Part of Chapter III and Chapter IV Piketty certainly ne...