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Abstract Attila

Today Iraq remains under occupation, and the gulf between those who profess to rule and those who ar

About Me

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My Interests

travel, political and social philosophy, physical and social sciences, languages and linguistics, music, vinyl, crate diving, soccer, billiards, my bike, snowboarding, film (still and motion), outdoors, wine and beer, mountains, the ocean, cities, and honest, genuine people.

Music:

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Movies:

Foreign films, Spaghetti Westerns, Martial Arts, Documentaries, American, French and Spanish classics, documentaries, mobsta movies, movies by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, O' Brother, Where Art Thou, etc.)

Television:

Television does not rule my life.

Books:

Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Richard Wright, Barbara Ehrenreich, Tariq Ali, Ray Bradbury, Howard Zinn, Emma Goldman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack London, Ken Kesey, George Jackson, Eduardo Galeano, Noam Chomsky, Paulo Coelho, Jared Diamond, Mikhail Bakunin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Henry David Thoreau, Eldridge Cleaver, Mark Twain, and some others.

Heroes:

The fallen, the oppressed, the struggling--not the affluent, famous, powerful, or ostentatious.

My Blog

More on Brazil

Brazil's brilliant flag sardonically declares the union of Progresso e Ordem, progress and order, two very imcompatible concepts that call back to Mussolini's Italy. It has been proven empirically tha...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:17:00 PST

Apartheid continues

Keeping alive the tradition of the forcible segregation pioneered by the Soviet Union and South Africa, US forces in Iraq have ordered the construction of a concrete wall around Adhamiya, the las...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:41:00 PST

What is news worthy

Paris Hilton is, evidently, very news worthy. Her ugly mug is splashed all over the reels. She is too fragile and cute to endure prison life, critics and fans decry. Hilton's eternal status as celebri...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:56:00 PST

Brazil

Brazil is a unique country. It is a country marked by choking contradictions. The racial diversity, perhaps the most complete and integrated in the world, is mocked by racially homogeneous advertising...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:23:00 PST

Eurocentrism in Argentina

As is probably well known about me, and whether I'm hated for it or not, I criticize most fiercely the places where I live. Argentina is no exception. I feel enough time has been spent here--1.5 month...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:37:00 PST

Neo-Nazi tourism

Here's the problem with Patagonia. The region has been exploited by outside and inside speculators, marketed for its natural wonders, and transformed into a rich person's Disney World (this statement ...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST

Nazism apparently hasn't given up on Argentina

Argentina is visually a stunning country, but the people, so far in our experience, fall short on many fronts. Racism here is pervasive, particularly in the south, in Patagonia. Argentina's mestizo an...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:14:00 PST

Some notes on immigration

(Here follows a reply I submitted to the BSU Arbiter, in response to the very reasonable, but extremely limited, outrage over the racist flyers being circulated on campus by the College Republicans.)P...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:22:00 PST

Iraq: Debate over

Those who insist on arguing over strategy in Iraq are missing the target question: Should we be in Iraq at all? The answer is a simple No. The answer is No because for the following reasons: --M...
Posted by Abstract Attila on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST

check this

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.a sp?service_ID=13070
Posted by Abstract Attila on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:35:00 PST