Philip
Tagg’s
Political Links
update 2007-03-23
Last link check 2005-08-14
Philip
Tagg’s
Political Links
update 2007-03-23
Last link check 2005-08-14
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Marquees from this site’s homepage and other short anti-disinformation
texts
• Home page •
Site info • Political
pics
• Aangirfan, a cooperative of former convent girls who run an extraordinarily informative and humanist blog out of Monaco! Check this page, for example.
• Adbusters and the Culture Jammers Network "is a global network of artists, activists, writers, educators and entrepreneurs" who believe that "culture jamming will become to our era what civil rights was to the '60s, what feminism was to the '70s and what environmental activism was to the eighties". Includes anti-adverts, anti-corporate campaign information, etc
• The algebra of infinite justice by Arundhati Roy (Guardian, 29 Sept 2001). The real background to 11 September 2001 and to Western, especially US, involvement in Afghanistan.
• Les alternatifs. ‘Chômage, précarité, exclusion et pauvreté, inégalités homme/femmes, guerres... Le monde reste à transformer. La mondialisation capitaliste marginalise des millions de personnes et met en péril l'équilibre écologique de la planète. Nous voulons un autre monde!’ You have to be mad not to agree with that...
• American Indian Cultural Support 'dedicated to preserving our various Nations'sovereignty, legal rights, lands, and cultures', including the 'Camp Justice' campaign.
• Amnesty International. Please watch the video and/or click Unsubscribe under the monitor window (below)
• Arts degree? Then earn less!... (BBC report)
• L’Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université
‡ Audititis (Kafkaesque contagion, managerialist mayhem, cowardly quantification-mania, etc.)
• Anti-communist propaganda - hilariously stupid pictures incl. ‘I Married a Communist’, mug-shot of Senator McCarthy, and ‘Red Rape’,
‡Anti-Disinformation marquees from this site.
• Baby Milk Action "is a non-profit organisation which aims to save lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate infant feeding."
• Berlusconi Vaffanculo (therapeutic animation)
• The Bilderberg conspiracy — world domination by a greedy and cynical élite (‘The High Priests of Globalization’ [Will Hutton]) ESSENTIAL READING
• Blair fabricates Iraq threat. UK government plagiarises out-of-date and questionable academic articles (including errors of language!) to whip up Bush’s case for war against Iraq (Guardian, 7 Feb. 2003).
• Blair's promises to big business (Forbes magazine, Feb. 2001)
• Blair's ideology (yuck!)
• Bookmarks - the socialist bookshop in London (UK).
• Brick-a-Brand - online game: you slam corporate logos with well-deserved bricks!
• Bush & Blair have long, long noses (See what they chase after!)
• Bush in 30 Seconds anti-disinformation competition: fantastic audiovisual statements from young people in the USA.
• Bush needs your help (Give him a brain!)
• Bush's re-election, Daily Mirror front page "How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?"
• CBS
producer fired for criticising paranoia in USA
• CD Cover for Snog (picture by Chris Woods).
• The Century of the Self. The outstanding TV Series about capitalism’s abuse of psychology...
• Century of the Self (BBC), reviewed by Paul Shepherd.
• Change Media (Socialist)
• Children of Iraq — Photos from the war in 2004. Please view these before saying ‘I didn’t know’.
• Chomsky's excellent speech, delivered at MIT, October 2001, against the hypocrisy of the US and UK governments' 'War on Terrorism'... 'History looks very different depending on whether you are holding the lash or being whipped by it for hundreds of years'.
• Cindy Sheehan’s letter, 2005-09-07.
• Climate Action Network "is a global network of over 287 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels."
• Consumption and Consumerism What are they? How do they work? Who controls who? Perverted individualism. Essential reading for anyone hoping to understand anything of life in the modern West.
• Corporate Accountability. Includes Corporate Dirt Archives / Researching Corporations Corporate Power Information / Anti-Corporate Email lists / Corporate Welfare Information Center 180: The Movement for Democracy and Education.
• Corporate Robot In Pursuit of Excellence (picture by Chris Woods).
• Corporate Watch. Keeps track of obscenities committed by international capitalism
• Counterpunch. US west-coast alternative political newsletter.
• ’Delivery services’: what a stupid misnomer! Why bother?
• The Ecologist – Founded in 1970, the world's longest running environmental magazine.
• Explorations in Social Inequality.
•
Esso (Exxon) deny global warming: lies and consequences.
• Fast food production mayhem (Guardian, 16 May 2001).
‡ Fred Frith, freedom of movement and the “Land of the Free" (April 2005)
• Free Culture — ‘How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity’ . Experience Lessig’s own PowerPoint presentation online
• Freedom to Care – promotes social conscience in the workplace, public accountability, ethics at work, support for whistleblowers; provides "free information on professional ethics, bullying at work, corporate responsibility, social and ethical accounting and auditing - especially in health care, nursing, social work, police, financial services, education, science and environment."
• Focus on Corporation ("to report and comment critically on corporate actions and plans, from particularized abuses to broad trends").
• Global Action ("may our resistance be as international as capital!")
• Global Arcade Information and excellent anti-corporate games!
• Globalisation is not delivering for the poor. Our leaders are wrong. ‘The real anarachists are inside the cordon sanitaire... Blair and Brown's infatuation with globalisation is neither sensible nor sustainable.’ Letter to Guardian, 16 Aug 2001, from Alan Simpson, Labour MP for Nottingham South.
• GreenNet, "unlike many other Internet Service Providers, is geared to the needs of non profit organisations, activists and people working for social change."
• Guantánamo: human rights abuses (Amnesty).
• The Hacktivist - Electronic Civil Disobedience
• Human Rights Watch AMNESTY-style info about capitalism's abuse of human beings worldwide
• IMF and Structural Adjustment. The real International Monetary Fund
• Income differences in the UK (2001) Equality? Forget it!....
• inequality.org — there‘s plenty of resistance to it, even in the USA!
• Iran’s nuclear programme: Cheney, Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz backed it!
• Iraq Body Count — Adding indifference to injury
• Iraq war could cost $2 trillion.
• Iraqi Children — Photos from the war in 2004. Please view these before saying ‘I didn’t know’.
• Jay's Leftist Resources very useful and encouraging with lots of good links
• Jesus goods on E-bay (for real!)
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Joe Jackson: Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State — from tobacco
corporation propaganda to pharma lobbying. "'All the experts’ once agreed that masturbation caused blindness, that homosexuality was a disease, and that marijuana turned people into homicidal maniacs. In the 1970s and 80s British doctors told mothers to put their babies to sleep face-down. Cot deaths soared, until a campaign by one nurse succeeded in changing this policy, which we now know to have claimed something like 15,000 lives"… That's the kind of 'science' Joe Jackson examines in this essay. Anyone whose brain is not completely rusted up should read Joe's essay. Did you know, for example, that through levies and taxes, UK smokers contribute around £10 billion to the public purse each year? And what about the 'fitness' industry? |
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• KMFMS - Kein Mitlied für MicroSoft.
• Labor cartoons amusing and apt US political caricatures.
• Lakoff on the hegemonic hijacking of language by the political right (=wrong).
• Lebanon war. The real reasons (Christian Science Monitor) | Electronic Lebanon.
• Lendovsky, Charles: ‘US sacrifices liberty for security’. Leader from local US newspaper, very critical of the negative effects of ‘the war on terrorism’ on basic liberties (May 2002).
• Letters to the New York Times and to President G W Bush from parents of Greg, killed in the World Trade Centre, 11 September 2001.
• Lockerbie bombing. Evidence about the Lockerbie (PanAm) disaster was faked so that Libya could be framed as a ‘rogue’ nation. In the process, falsely incriminated policewoman Shirley McKie’s life and career were ruined. A complex web of cynical deceit, it seems, involving the FBI, the CIA, heroin smuggling and improper pressure on Scottish authorities to fall in line with US foreign policy agendas. For more complete picture, follow all links, e.g. those given by The Scotsman and the BBC. See also this site.
• The Low-Level Radiation Campaign just in case anyone still thinks humans aren't at risk from low level ionising radiation or from man-made fission products...
• Matsu slates the money paradigm — economic 'success' = ecological catastrophe!
• The Media Channel keeps an eagle eye on US media reporting and has links to many good alternative sites
• “Marry
an American!” (philanthropic Canadian website for non-Bush voters)
• Martin
Luther King: Beyond Vietnam
• McSpotlight — "McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard." This site is an absolute MUST: well researched, well written, well designed, very disturbing and very entertaining. Includes excellent leaflets like What's Wrong With McDonalds, What's Wrong With Ronald McDonald, etc. that you can distribute at your local McDonald's.
• Modern TV including "CBS Evening Lies", etc.
• Move
On — Democrary in action
• New inequality "Before the French Revolution, 1 in 20 of the French labour force worked for the Court - making wigs, building palaces, gilding statues, or as servants. Is the post-industrial economy a court economy, in which the work of many, exists for the status of a privileged few?"
• New Internationalist Magazine
• Marin Niemöller's poem When the Nazis came...
• Nike's email correspondence with Jonah Peretti. Nike lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah Peretti filled out the form and sent them $50 to stitch "sweatshop" onto his shoes. Here are the responses he got. Hilarious reading!
• Musicians Against Media Monopoly
• NoLogo — ‘The Book that became part of a movement’. An excellent site for Global Resistance to the kack of capitalism.
•Non-Delivery
services: what stupidity! Why bother?
• Oxfam • Oxfam Canada
• Pilger on 'sanctions' in Iraq and other terror.
• The Postmodernism Generator This machine churns out more readable 'postmodernist' claptrap than most academics can.
• The Power of Nightmares — see it! Adam Curtis's BBC2 documentary about the exploitation of fear in the "war on terrorism". Must be seen! Another page. || Curtis answers his critics (almost all brainwashed and on the political "right"). The politics of fear in the USA (détente could have been a reality but the neocons didn't want it!). What The Guardian says about the documentary. View one episode.
• PR Watch — Public Interest Reporting on the PR/Public Affairs Industry, incl. ‘Weapons of Mass Deception’.
• Protect yourself from mass marketing
CANADA: Canadian Marketing Association — to significantly reduce the amount of marketing spam you receive — L’Association Canadienne du Marketing,
UK: To get rid of telemarketing
in the UK, contact the Telephone Preference Service at www.tpsonline.org.uk.
To get rid of hard-copy junk mail, write to Mailing Preference Service, Freepost
22, London W1E 7EZ. For more information check out "Preference Service"
under "Information" at the Direct
Marketing Association website. All of these services take time to gain
full effect and the e-mail opt-out only lasts for one year, but you are reminded
automatically in time for renewal.
•Private (Non-) Delivery services: what stupidity! Why bother?
• Punch Bill Gates - not very constructive but highly therapeutic online activity!
• Realty-based or fantasy-based community?
• Résistance à l'agression publicitaire Yes! Resist it! Inclut les Casseurs de Pub (oui!).
• Reclaim Democracy! Why do (US) corporations have more rights than you? Includes a great Thomas Jefferson quote.
• Revoke Plutocracy! Corporate America versus standard humanist bourgeois democracy
• ®TMark. Hilarious: pick any topic from the menu - Try "BMPB - Buy education", for example.
• Sandra Bennett in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about those gay pinko pot-heads north of the border (Canadians). Excellent, well-written little article
• Socialist Party (UK website, incl. articles from The Socialist).
• Socialist Unity Network (England & Wales)
• Socialist Workers Party (UK website, excellent online newspaper, etc.)
• Stop E$$o (Esso invest nothing in renewable energy and gave millions to the G W Bush campaign so the USA could turn its back on the Kyoto agreement. We have to boycott this evil corporation.)
• Studs Terkel interviewed on the Friday after Tuesday Sept 11 2001.
• Subservient chicken (enter any common verb and watch it follow your command)
• Subvertise – anti-adverts turning corporate propaganda back on itself.
• SUV ownership is madness – Serious research from the USA. See also SUVs Seriously Suck on this site.
• UNESCO
• UNICEF: Rich countries (OECD), where 47 million children are poor — Worst in Mexico, USA, Italy, UK and Turkey - who also give least in foreign aid. Best in Nordic countries - who give most in foreign aid.
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights–- Governments and corporations should not contravene it!
• United
Nations League Table of Child Poverty in 0ECD Nations
• United States - Punishment and Prejudice. Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
• United States – ordinary people lose their basic human rights under Bush regime’s “war on terrorism”
• United States prisons. Free-enterprise slave labour, racial discrimination and human rights violation in the Gulags and concentration camps of the Land of the Free.
• One US view of Canada, the ‘curious” neighbour...
• WalMart and the Walocaust site: ‘The world is our labour camp’ . Start with this report in The Guardian.
• War on Terrorism Watch. "If anyone doubts the extent to which the Canadian government has bought in to the Bush Administration's assault on civil liberties, then they must visit this web site".
• What Really Happened and what you weren’t supposed to know. ESSENTIAL reading, esp. about 2001-09-11.
• Znet magazine: well-constructed, exhaustive and invaluable resource for what is really going on in the world
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