Aristide Returns - From The Nation

Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s triumphant return to Haiti after seven years of forced exile in South Africa signals a new stage in the Caribbean country’s popular and democratic struggle just as a resurgent right wing prepares to lay electoral claim—for the first time ever—to the country’s presidency in a controversial US-backed presidential poll on Sunday.

Irish Labour Watch - New Website

I have to admit I don't have high hopes for Labour's performance over the next few years. It is good to know however, that there are less cynical observers making a real attempt to keep them to their word. This new website proposes to track Labour's performance and measure the extent to which they stick to their word / completely sell out during the coalition. The most interesting will be whether the law of averages takes its toll and Labour follow the well-worn path of almost all junior coalition partners into the murky neverland with no where to sit down!

The Pipe - Official Trailer - Hopefully it will be screened in Barcelona soon.

Democracy Now!-March 1, 2011

"Behind the Arab revolt is a word we dare not speak" by John Pilger

I am impatient to know how today's Arab revolutions will be understood in the history books of the future. Forcing an imaginary retrospective would help to shake off the constrained lexicon the powerful of today have imposed on our debates. But as ever, John Pilger has already done so!