I have just finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and was doing some research on John Perkins when I chanced upon the following videos. Even if you do not agree with Perkins’ approach or are critical of the lack of evidence presented in his book, these two videos leave you little doubt about… Read More: A timeline of American imperialism »
If you have been following this blog, you will notice that I haven’t updated for a while. The reason is simple. Access to my Blogger account has been blocked since May 15 by the Great Firewall of China, perhaps in anticipation of the Tiananmen anniversary on June 4. (The proxy server that I have been… Read More: Blogger blocked ahead of Tiananmen anniversary »
From a post titled “Service Outage (a note from the USA)” by Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone: Dear World, The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located.… Read More: Uncle Sam says sorry »
The recent public outcry over the losses incurred by the town councils in Singapore has provoked a response from Teo Ho Pin, the chairman of the PAP Town Councils, who reminded residents to “be thankful”. Here’s a scanned image of the report. (Or click the related story links below to follow the discussion on this… Read More: Be thankful »
It may have gone unnoticed by people, but today is Workers’ Party’s Democracy Day, in commemoration of the groundbreaking day on 31 October 1981 when Singaporeans voted in their first opposition member of parliament – the late J.B. Jeyaretnam – after 16 years. Incidentally, I was going through my collection of books and I realised… Read More: Democracy Day »
Ever since I left Singapore, I’ve been so out of touch (deliberately at times) with the political scene in Singapore that I didn’t know JB Jeyaretnam has passed away two days ago until a friend sent me an e-mail alert. I’m sure by now there will be plenty of eulogies for Singapore’s best-known activist (arguably,… Read More: Rest in peace, JBJ »