Sunday, April 28, 2013

What Foodies Don't Know

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“Behind the Kitchen Door,” by Saru Jayaraman, Forward by Eric Schlosser, 2013 Jayaraman is another progressive female Indian voice, who ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

“The Weak Are Meat; the Strong Do Eat.”

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“Cloud Atlas” (the book) by David Mitchell, 2004 Texts and film are two different mediums, but they intertwine frequently.  Most good...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Industrial Murder

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A Tale of Two Slaughters 1. Boston Marathon The U.S. news has seen wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal bombings at the Boston Marat...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

May Day Events - Since the Site Has Been Declared 'Infected" by Google (Our internet host can find no problem, but ...)

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This Month - April 2013 Calendar Monthly Review Discussion Group — Latest issue of Monthly Review, lead story: “Marx, Kalecki & ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Mayday site is down

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Mayday site has been down for at least a couple of days -- apparently infected with some malware that could compromise the computer of any u...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

A Fake Movie Inside A Fake Movie

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The Worst Picture Awards -‘Argo’ and ‘Zero Dark 30.'   Two patriotic uber "American" movies that were nominated for an...
Monday, April 8, 2013

The South – Our Very Own Third-World Country

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“Guerillas, Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Home Front,” edited by Daniel Sutherland, 1990. This book is a compendium of acade...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Fantasy of the Real

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Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and William Morris If you’ve been watching the top fantasy series, “ Game of Thrones ” you’ve been ...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Geographic Fundamentalism

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“Guns, Germs & Steel – the Fates of Human Societies,” by Jared Diamond, 1999 This is the book that really brought Diamond to world a...