Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Genre Fiction / Familiar Facts

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"A Time to Kill,” by John Grisham, 1989 This was Grisham’s first book, which he couldn’t sell until someone grabbed his second – t...
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Spectre Haunts

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"Revolutions,” Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring 2014 Lewis Lapham wrote a piece in Salon this month called “ Crowd Control, ” which is a...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Deaths of a British Salesman

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"Coming Up for Air,” by   George Orwell, 1939 This book, one of Orwell’s least known, shows that obscurity can’t fade Orwell’s wri...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Misery in Capitalist Nigeria

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"Famished Road,” by Ben Okri, 1991 Nigeria in 1991 was not a pretty place.   Nothing has changed since 1991 – it has just gotten ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Rock the Kasbah

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Morocco – Class is in Session! Marrakesh, the party town, is supposedly the top tourist site in Africa.   Rabat is the old imperial ca...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Happy International Women's Day

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I am on vacation.  On the Marrakesh Express.  The Kesh "Angels" - Biker Women of Marrakesh, Morocco.  These pict...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Take This Job and Shove It!

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Marxism is Abolitionism As I sit here in my office cube, restrained from leaving work by the necessity to bring home money to keep a ro...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

In the Beginning Was the Deed

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"Peoples’ History of Science – Miners, Midwives and ‘Low Mechanicks,’” by Clifford D Conner, 2005 The ‘great man of history’ theor...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Kiev's Maidan Square and the "Game of Thrones"

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US/EU Meddling Attempts to Make Ukrainians Pawns, Promotes Neo-Fascists The bloody events in Kiev over the past week make one re...