His Holiness,The Dalai Lama of Tibet The Dalai Lama has launched a fierce attack on Chinese rule in his Tibetan homeland, saying his people had experienced "hell on Earth". Five decades of Chinese rule had caused "untold suffering", Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said, accusing Beijing of creating ...

In this post, and more recently in a comment here, I was optimistic about the capacity of the South African proletariat to act in solidarity with the dissenters in Zimbabwe, and in this post I was critical of the South African regimes complicity in bolstering Mugabe. Today, I read this at Freeborn J...

This is a continuation of yesterday's music post. First, there's more mp3s by Why? (aka Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf) at Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, This Recording, and Stop Okay Go. It's hip hop, but in a very leftfield, un-ghetto way: it will appeal to people that like Beck more than people who life Kanye Wes...