Author Archives | Peter Katel
Peter Katel, a journalist in Albuquerque, reported for The New Mexican, the Albuquerque Tribune, the Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe Reporter in the 1970s and early ‘80s. He returned to New Mexico in 2011 after working in Mexico City, Miami and Washington for publications including Newsweek, TIME Magazine and PODER. He is a contributing writer for CQ Researcher and a translator for Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.
1974 New Mexico Campaign Warned of Surveillance State
Before his renowned Qatsi Trilogy, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio led a media blitz warning of the impending dangers of surveillance technology.
Continue reading...Extreme weather events are the new normal, are we prepared?
30. July 2013
I’m happy to believe that the astounding, 89-mph wind that roared through the city last Friday was a once-in-a-lifetime event. National Weather Service meteorologist Clay Anderson told the Journal: “The storm was so anomalous that the chances are that everyone in Albuquerque that’s alive will not see a wind gust like again in their lifetime in Albuquerque associated with thunderstorms.”
Reassured? Don’t be. Notice that Anderson isn’t excluding winds that don’t come with thunderstorms. “I think we need to be prepared for 79-mile-an-hour and 69-mile-an-hour windstorms,” Anderson told me. “They can do damage too"...
Continue reading...The real “Van”
02. April 2013
As the global capitalist system tumbled over a cliff in the late 1920s, French teenager Jean van Heijenoort took the first steps toward a two-decade career as a professional revolutionary, the crucial part of it at Leon Trotsky’s side. More than 100 years after van Heijenoort was born in 1912, capitalism is in crisis again. But people of his caliber aren’t dedicating their lives to overthrow it.
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05. August 2014
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