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New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

25/07/2015

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

18/07/2015

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

Flights of Fancy and an Unwanted Runway

04/07/2015

The UK has not built a full-length runway in the South East since World War 2. Should it?...

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

17/06/2015

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

09/06/2015

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

Fighting to be treated fairly on the internet

07/06/2015

A revolutionary power shift from internet giants such as Google to ordinary consumers is critically overdue...

Jaz Coleman Spoken Word Tour

06/06/2015

Letters from Cythera...

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

10/04/2015

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

Test Dept – DS30 : April 23, Ritzy Picturehouse

03/04/2015

This screening of DS30 is accompanied by a selection of archive material of the group on film and video which will be followed by a Q & A with founding members ...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

Sane? That’s a Tough Goal in Insane Times

03/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapuman activity (since the advent of the oxymoron known as industrial civilization) has been defined by the exploitation of human...

The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapcocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human...

Negotiating Pain and Life’s Wounds

06/02/2015

How does one respond to the forces and circumstances that insult, oppress and torment one's soul?...

A picture of documents by Nuttakit/Freedigitalphotos.net

Privatising Child Protection

31/01/2015

Protection of vulnerable children is not possible if those delivering the services are not obliged to follow established rules....

Nuanced Chuckles with Charlie Hebdo : Free Speech and the Freedom to Complain

14/01/2015

You can make your case and express your view, but riling up the worst elements and trolling isn’t free speech; it’s just being an antisocial jerk....

Pete Seeger and the Cop Problem

08/01/2015

The true purpose of a union was and remains: to bind the oppressed and exploited in solidarity - not act as agents of their oppression....

Hell Is Other People(‘s Stuff)

02/01/2015

We inherited the shaded glades and sunlight-dappled gardens of Heaven but we have made our world a burning hell....

Torture and the Tooth-For-Tooth Reflex

27/12/2014

The reality of having, without reflection, internalized the propaganda of the state constitutes an act of evil, in and of itself....

About Political Correctness

19/12/2014

Political correctness is not actually about quelling ‘freedom of speech’ for the sake of defending others from offense....

baby hand by freedigitalphotos.net and Nutdanai Apikhomboonwaroot

11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

13/12/2014

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

Gurney at Al Shifa hospital, Gaza, by Kerry Anne Mendoza

Palestine: What Hope Peace? [Film]

29/11/2014

There is nothing left of 'Palestine', just small and disconnected pockets of pain. Further divisions and segregation will not work....

Manics by Cummings Heavily copyrighted, do not re-use

Assassinated Beauty : Proud Camden

12/11/2014

The exhibition is a retrospective of photos of Manic Street Preachers taken from Cummins' first NME shoot with the band in 1992...

Watching: Bourdieu [Vid]

09/11/2014

Sociology is a Martial Art follows the day to day mental life of Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist at the forefront of Post-structuralist theory until is death in 2002....

Julian Bahula [African National Congress] : Interview

03/11/2014

When Julian Bahula tells you music contains the power of revolution, that it is “a weapon for the struggle,” you believe him....

The BBC Is Snooping on You

01/11/2014

The BBC regularly uses spying powers granted under The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, intended for the interception of communications by terrorists....