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The current flashback documentary  Summer of Soul reminded how few things were more ubiquitous on the radio 50-odd years ago than SF’s own Sly and the Family Stone, a fact obscured by his subsequent gradual retreat from public life. Definitely the ultimate sweaty seasonal party song is that act’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” something that finally seemed relevant again in Stone’s erstwhile hometown late last week. (Never mind that while I was writing this, the temperature had dipped to the low 60s again.) Of course, nobody is enthused about those broiling harbingers of climate cha...

BELLEVUE, WA – While the legacy media is quick to sensationalize every incident involving misuse of firearms, they just as quickly downplay or completely dismiss reports of lawful self-defense with firearms, and the Second Amendment Foundation is openly challenging the establishment press to explain why. “Why are the gun prohibition lobby and their bought and paid for politicians and media mouth pieces ignoring stories like this,” wondered SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, after learning of a 12-year-old Louisiana boy’s recent heroic defense of his...

Toggle Sidebar Forthcoming—Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte (Rutgers Univresity Press) by Yveline Alexis will be on the shelves next month. Description: Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and  caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation lasted close to two decades, from 1915-1934. Alexis argues for the importance of documenting resistance while exploring ...

Alan Grant's 'Moniaive Fights Back' Comic on BBC's The One Show Alan Grant's 'Moniaive Fights Back' Comic on BBC's The One Show Posted on Alan Grant, writer on Judge Dredd and Batman, has just appeared on BBC One's early evening magazine TV show, The One Show, to promote a very local comic book indeed. Entitled Monaieve Fights Back, it's about Monaieve, the small Scottish village he lives in fighting back against the coronavirus and coping with shutdown. The BBC went down the stereotypical POW, BAM, KAPOW route, but the examples of work on display was from a more diverse influence and ...

By Viktor Katona - Mar 10, 2021, 1:00 PM CST Judging from recent headlines, Nigeria has unleashed one of the most spectacular legal attacks on one of its key oil and gas investors, to an extent previously unseen in the country’s more than 60 years of hydrocarbon production. Shell has been active in Nigeria ever since the African country opened up to international investment in the early 1960s, maintaining its position as one of the leading actors in its upstream segment, accounting for roughly 10% of Nigeria’s crude production. Seemingly, the timing is quite inopportune for a large-scale ...