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- The role of the intellectual
- White House Press: Ground Rules (Clinton 2000 interview with Amy Goodman)
- Egypt…the revolution keeps revolving (Today’s “Women’s March”)
- Bradley Manning in court, Day One
- Occupy Wall Street as Three-card Monte for the media (or: Who’s a ringer?)
- The time we killed civilians in order to save civilians… (NATO in Libya)
- Rick Perry’s YouTube advertisement: Let the voting begin.
- The last gasps of the Bill of Rights, plus Ozone Widget and the Lord’s Army (Nation Defense Authorization Act)
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- “Corporations are people, my friend”
- The place where the drones go…
- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
- The atomic bomb and Hiroshima: We had to drop it, to save American lives, right?
- How did you fare Buy Nothing Day?
- Occupy Everywhere: Roundtable with Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, P. Bruener, Rinku Sen, W. Greider
- Foucault in a cowboy hat
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
No-fly zone: reasons for (Gilbert Achcar interview)
Gilbert Achcar gives cogent arguments in favor of the no-fly zone. This should be read as a counter-weight to the arguments I presented in my earlier post criticizing the UN Security Council invasion. His reasoning is clear and persuasive: 1) … Continue reading
Posted in Libya: will it be revolution?
Tagged Achcar, Gaddafi, intervention, no-fly zone, oil
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Review of Un prophete (A prophet), by Jacques Audiard
Highly recommended by many of my friends, I put off seeing this movie because I could tell it would get to me. And it did. This is one of the best, but most disturbing movies I’ve seen in a year. … Continue reading
Libya intervention, Obama hypocrisy
It has become clear that the UN resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya is essentially a mandate to oust Gaddafi. There are three major problems with what is going on, from my point of view. First, is the … Continue reading
Posted in Libya: will it be revolution?
Tagged civilian, Gaddafi, invade, no-fly zone, Obama, UN Security Council
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Libyan intervention: humanitarianism or imposing regime change?
Update: From aljazeera’s Libya liveblog: 4:00pm Civilians have been hit in the bombardment of sites in Libya, says Russia – which called for an immediate end to the strikes. A foreign ministry spokesman said: In that respect we call on … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled
Tagged intervention, Libya: will it be revolution?, no-fly zone, Obama
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Wisconsin wealth: its about redistribution, stupid!
You know, like from the rich to the poor. That is, says gov’nr Walker, let’s give tax-cuts to the rich and make the poor pay more. We could call it an “emergency.” Rachel Maddow does a great job explaining the … Continue reading
Posted in Mythologies of capitalism, US economy, US politics
Tagged Koch, Maddow, Madison, Walker, Wisconson
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What’s going on in Madison II: Shock Doctrine Analysis, or contesting right-wing crisis tactics
Naomi Klein is refreshingly clear and incredibly persuasive in her analysis of what is at stake in Wisconsin. According to her, the antidote to the “Shock Doctrine” tactic, or the right’s signature tactic: is to “name it while it’s happening.” … Continue reading
Posted in Mythologies of capitalism, US politics
Tagged elections, Madison, middle class, Naomi Klein, rich, Shock Doctrine, tax cuts, unions, Walker, Wisconsin
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Hypocrisy and horror: Bradley Manning, or how the US treats its citizens
The facts about Bradley Manning’s detention, detailed below, are shocking. Manning is being held in extreme situations that easily pass the threshold for psychological torture and cruel and degrading punishment, both unlawful under US law. Let’s remind ourselves as well … Continue reading
Posted in US politics
Tagged Bradley Manning, detention, hypocrisy, inhumane treatment, naked, prison, torture, treatment
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Tahrir success again
Reasons for (very cautions) optimism:
Posted in Egypt and revolution
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Bradley Manning’s torture: this is how the US treats its own citizens
Bradley Manning is suspected by the government of having handed over a Lady Gaga CD that actually contained secret government documents to an unknown party that eventually forwarded it to Wikileaks. I repeat that he is only “suspected” of having … Continue reading
Posted in US military
Tagged Bradley Manning, detention, inhumane treatment, naked, prison
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“Israel is a lunatic state”
Posted in Another day in Occupied Palestine
Tagged Israel, Normal Finkelstein, Palestine, US Israel relations
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On Thomas Friedman, or the funniest thing I’ve read in a month.
Thomas Friedman, for those who aren’t already familiar with him, has achieved enormous fame in the US as a columnist for the NYTimes. He wrote books that became instant top-ten bestsellers like “The World is Flat” and “Hot Flat and … Continue reading
Two rabbis at Honukkah: light a candle for Gaza, or US media and Israel
When it comes to reporting on the human realities of the Palestinians, mainstream news in the US is blatantly biased in favor of the Israeli state. Even simple facts about the Palestinians don’t see the light of day in the … Continue reading
