By Janet Phelan
The Public Relations arm of the U.S. government is taking a “stab” at your travel documents.
The latest edition of the US Passport exhibits what appears to be an Orwellian effort to deny the damage to the American dream our country has suffered in the last few years. Not content to spin the television [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘International’
May 2, 2009
Spinning the U.S. Passport
March 1, 2009
Interview with Rebel Woman Assata Shakur
By Margot Pepper
Assata Shakur, (godmother of Tupac Shakur) is a former convicted Black Panther who fled to Cuba in 1984. There is a million dollar bounty on her head. I met Assata in 1992, when I was working in Cuba as a journalist and translator along with my partner, aka “Guillermo.” The following is an [...]
February 1, 2009
An Island of Mystery
By Jim Smith
Many of us in Venice wish there were none of those developers in town who tear down perfectly good homes and bungalows just to make more money. If only all Venetians had affordable rent and lived without fear of landlords, speculators and developers.
Suppose I told you that there is a place on this [...]
February 1, 2009
How Artists Survive In Cuba
Venice is a city of artists, musicians and writers. Yet most of them get no encouragement when it comes to survival. A network of support for artists and writers exists in Cuba.
Most aspiring artists, musicians and writers go to art or music schools or major in art, music or literature at the universities (which are [...]
November 5, 2008
Film Review: Vietnam: American Holocaust
By Karl Abrams
This incredible historical-political documentary by Venice filmmaker Clay Claiborne is an eye-opening account of the horrors and atrocities of the Vietnam War. It depicts, scene-by-scene, how misguided, ignorant and xenophobic racist U.S. war policies were mercilessly carried out by political and military leaders, many of whom remained unrepentant. Truman worried about a Soviet [...]
May 1, 2008
May 2008 – Letter From Hawai’i
Aloha Venetians from your roving butterfly. I’ve learned a lot in the past four months living on the Big island of Hawai’i.
And I mean Living, this Pleiadian starchild knows her roots. Leave a Darwinian Lemuria to the Lemurs, this here is the Motherland of MU. And as ascended masters on Mt. Shasta will concur, California [...]
May 1, 2008
May 2008 – The History Of Cinco De Mayo
By Maria Elena Montano
In the 1800’s, Mexico underwent a series of wars, bringing about political changes which affected Mexico’s government for yet another century.
After 300 years of colonial slavery New Spain declared its independence from Spain on Sept.16,1810. A war ensued on Mexican soil that lasted until 1821. Mexico was born as a constitutional democracy. [...]
May 1, 2008
May 2008 – The Fifth Of May Around The World
Most people in Southern California relate the 5th of May to Cinco de Mayo. True, but Cinco de Mayo is not the only holiday celebrated on May 5th around the world.
In Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and Korea it is children’s day. The date is reserved for many cultural celebrations. In western Europe there is the [...]
May 1, 2008
May 2008 – Angry Women Close Congress – In Mexico
By John Ross
Mexico City – “The Adelitas have arrived/To defend our oil/Whoever wants to give it to the foreigners/Will get the shit kicked out of him!” yodeled the brigades of women pouring onto the esplanade of the Mexican senate to protest a petroleum privatization measure President Felipe Calderón insists is not a petroleum privatization measure [...]
