Frantz Fannon: Selected Writings

Works

National Culture and the Fight for Freedom, 1959
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness, 1961
The Wretched of the Earth. Conclusion, 1961

Further Reading

Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Kojève 1934
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir 1949
Preface to “Wretched of the Earth” by Jean-Paul Sartre 1961
African Socialism Revisited, Kwame Nkrumah 1967
All Cultures are Not Equal by Kenan Malik 2002

Gordon Brown’s Press Officer Harasses Journalists

Newsnight, June 26th 2007:
Gordon Brown’s Press Officer Tony McElroy abuses the Terrorism act to harass British journalists and keep them away from the unelected Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Gordon Brown’s Press Officer Harasses Journalists – Part 1

Gordon Brown’s Press Officer Harasses Journalists – Part 2

(20mins) Produced by BBC Newsnight. Hosted at YouTube.

The Truth About Gordon ‘Stalin’ Brown

The Truth About Gordon Brown

(4mins) Produced by NufffRespect. Hosted at YouTube.

Zeitgeist – The Movie

Zeitgeist – The Movie
Official Release (2007)

(116mins) Produced by Zeitgeist.com Hosted at Google Video.

“They must find it difficult…
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than the truth as authority.“
- Gerald Massey

The astronomical, mythological and political development of world religion, leading us into the modern age with an open account of ‘the greatest lie ever told’.

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

(6mins. Produced by T. Darnell. Hosted at YouTube)

In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millennium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.

This short video explains the significance of the Hubble Deep Field image and it neatly contextualizes the vastness of the universe and our relationship to it. This is amazing stuff: forget about the wars and the bloodshed for a few minutes and let this wash over your mind. This is truly the most important image ever taken by humanity.

Thanks to the member of the Hubble project

New Labour, Old Sleaze: Saudis, BAE and Blackmail

The BBC today reported that ‘Saudi Arabia says it is to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from UK firm BAE Systems for £4.43bn. The Ministry of Defence would not confirm the deal had been completed, saying negotiations are continuing. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) dropped a probe last year into a sale of jets to the Saudis in the 1980s.’

The following is an account of that former deal and the surrounding corruption:

New Labour, Old Sleaze: Saudis, BAE and Blackmail – part 1

New Labour, Old Sleaze: Saudis, BAE and Blackmail – part 2

New Labour, Old Sleaze: Saudis, BAE and Blackmail – part 3
(30mins) Produced by BBC UK. Hosted at Google Video.

Former British PM Tony Blair defended the government’s decision to halt the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) investigation into alleged bribery surrounding BAE Systems’ contracts with Saudi Arabia. The former prime minister told the House of Commons continuing the investigation would have damaged the UK’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.

However, he refuted allegations the attorney general Lord Goldsmith had attempted to block a subsequent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) investigation as “completely and totally unfair and wrong”. It had been alleged Lord Goldsmith had warned officials not to disclose information to the OECD investigation.

Quizzed in prime minister’s questions, Mr Blair defended the decision not to pursue an inquiry. He said: “First of all these allegations are strenuously denied by the Saudi royal family, secondly if we were then going to conduct an investigation then that might last two, three years into these allegations that frankly I think would lead absolutely nowhere. What it would lead to is the complete wreckage of a relationship that is of fundamental importance of the security of this country, to the state of the Middle East, and to our relationship with countries in the Middle East.”

Mr Blair continued: “I was asked for my advice as to what damage this investigation would do if it continued. I gave that advice because of the huge importance of working with Saudi Arabia on the Middle East peace process, on counter-terrorism, on the situation in the Middle East. I stick by that, and the idea frankly that such an investigation could be conducted without doing damage to our relationship is cloud cuckoo land, which after all is the natural habitat of the Liberal Democrats.”

The Liberal Democrats have called on Mr Blair to confirm what he knew about the alleged bribery (noting that bribery of a foreign official became illegal in 2002).

Since 1985, BAE Systems has signed £43 billion worth of arms contract with Saudi Arabia. But it was alleged these were agreed in return for payments totalling £1 billion to Prince Bander. The government halted a SFO investigation in December 2006 and the case has since been investigated by the OECD.

Exclusive – British Troops: Underfunded and Underloved

MiM has received exclusive images from the British armed forces currently stationed in Iraq, from a source who shall remain unnamed. The images show the ingenious compromises that British forces must implement on a daily basis due to the lack of funding provided by the Department of Defence, even though they have been thrust into a dirty, illegal war at the whim of politicians loyal to their American paymasters.

Above: the SCUD100 Human Missile.

Above: Latest Aeronautic defence system.

Above: The New British Trident ground patrol.

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!

END THE IMPERIALIST OIL WARS!

The Irresistible Rise of Tony’s Crony

New Labour and Anthony Blair in particular campaigned expressly with the slogan ‘no-more-sleaze’ before reaching the levers of power. On several occasions this pledge has been called into question as dishonest when revelations at least created an impression of the likelihood of conditional party funding.

This BBC program deals with the question if one benefactor of New Labour, Paul Drayson, has seen some calculated return on his donations. One criticism expressed by many, even from within the Labour Party, is that New Labour in power under Blair has not put a stop to secret dealings between politicians in power and smart business people.

WATCH HERE:

The Irresistible Rise of Tony’s Crony – part 1

The Irresistible Rise of Tony’s Crony – part 2

The Irresistible Rise of Tony’s Crony – part 3

(30mins) Produced by BBC UK. Hosted at YouTube.