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The Failures of the Star-Tribune In the last month the failure of the Star-Tribune (“ST”) as a source of in-depth reportage has been egregi...

"Suttree," by Cormac McCarthy, 1979 Cormac McCarthy has filtered into popular culture twice now – first when the Cohen brothers ad...

Who Allowed this to Happen? Since slavery, the southern United States has been home to the most reactionary forces in the U.S. - forces now ...

'Milla' Demonstration for Democratic Rights Today a mass demonstration has been called in Budapest to demand freedom of speech and t...

‘Soviet Women – Walking the Tightrope’ – Francine Du Plessix Gray, 1989   Francine Gray didn’t know it, but her visits to the U.S.S.R. provi...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain Although given the rubric of the ‘ugly American’ that developed...

“Vultures’ Picnic – In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores,” by Greg Palast, 2011 It’s a good time to be an...

“Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” by Jared Diamond, 2005 Jared Diamond has written a wonderful anthropological story abo...

Dear Fellow Commodity, On payday, should you thank the boss or should the boss thank you? Owners seem generous to some. After all, they t...

“News From Nowhere – An Epoch of Rest (Being some chapters from a Utopian Romance),” By William Morris (1890) William Morris was an early...

Bradley Manning should be set free and awarded the MEDAL of FREEDOM!

Who is Ron Paul? Ron Paul is running for President in the Republican Party primaries, but he’s more important for what he means outside the ...

“Tropic of Chaos – Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,” by Christian Parenti , 2011 Well, this book shoots that theory of ‘s...

“The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism – How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers,” by Michael Perelman, 2011. I imagine...