Aaah, Pogumjari…
they look pretty thin
Erdogan apologises to Kurds for mass killing |
Turkish PM issues first official apology over military campaign in Tunceli that killed nearly 14,000 Kurds in the 1930s.
Fantastic collection of Soviet objects… thanks, Saoirse! Freedom indeed.
“He was covered in so much of what used to be called ‘bling’ in the 90s and swathed in so many designer schmattes, it was like if Marie Antoinette attended a bake sale in support of the Revolutionary Tribunal.”
Nice…
By Bruce LaBruce
Last week I was talking about how stylistically-challenged the Occupy Wall Street movement is, and how important style is to any radical manifestation. Well, I was so busy fretting about the style deficit of these disheveled, bedraggled, drum-beating revolutionary dilettantes that I didn’t even get a chance to address the real 800-pound gorilla in the room: advanced capitalism. That’s right, unregulated, unrestrained, evangelical, fundamentalist free market capitalism, the kind that is about to plunge the world into a tailspin of economic hardship, austerity, and widespread poverty. When soviet communism failed and the Iron Curtain fell, everyone was eager to bury communism forever. Now that capitalism is threatening to destabilize the world order, why isn’t it also being recognized as a failed political system? Just asking.
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AWESOME.
Via nevver:
There’s something more, I think, than tawdry voyeurism here. It ain’t pretty.