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BobFromBrockley
http://brockley.blogspot.com
Blog about trans-Atlantic translation, Jews and Jew-haters, the old and new Stalinists, the culture wars, islam and secularism, contrarians and refuseniks, perfidious intellectuals and other such things.
Recent Posts
Cut and paste thoughts on Honduras after the election
After The New Centrist (happily back to regular blogging) and Flesh is Grass posted about Honduras from different perspectives, I made some comments that I have linked to in a previous post. The New Centrist took the time to respond to my comments in...
Peruvian fat-stealers, Turkish psych-rock, Chomsky\'s stocks and bonds, and much more
Peruvian fat stealers: bizarre but fascinating.TNC's last Sunday round-up (see my comments there and at FiG on the Honduras elections).Capitalism a love story: on the high finances of Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.Tired of the Israel lobby? Meet the...
How come nobody is allowed to talk about immigration?
How come nobody is allowed to talk about immigration? This is the question constantly asked by the right-wing press and mainstream politicians of all parties in the UK. And, yet, it seems to me, no subject is covered more by the right-wing press and ...
Continuing our conversations 4
First, a huge thank you to Roland, for naming me as one of his favourite blogs in his Normblog profile. He's on the same wave length as me, as demonstrated by this:Who are your intellectual heroes? > Hannah Arendt, Fredrich Engels, George Orwell.Over...
Note on comments policy
After this experience, and then reading this post, this post, and this post and this post, and especially this comment thread, and especially this comment (from Sarah, whose wonderful blog, Cafe Turco, I was surprised to find was not already on my bl...
Continuing our conversations 3
Some day I'll go back to blogging properly. In the meantime, some odds and ends. (Note: Wednesday morning: some links repaired.)Chomsky, Bosnia and free speech:David Campbell's Chomsky correspondence. (If the link doesn't work, read it at Standpoint....
