Tuesday, May 30, 2017

I'm Lost in the Supermarket

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Shopping World What does capitalism do well? Well, it makes for a ‘great’ shopping experience.   You can get 200 varieties of breakfast ce...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Thug Life

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Erdogan Comes to the U.S. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is more than familiar to leftists in the U.S.  He is well-known for his extreme right-wing ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

The Witness

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“I Am Not Your Negro,” film and book by Raoul Peck, texts by James Baldwin, 2107 James Baldwin spent many years in ‘the tree-shaded bou...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Billions Dead in U.S. Alone

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“The Emotional Lives of Animals,” by Marc Berkoff, 2007 Full disclosure.   I used to think that the ‘animal’ issue could wait until the...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

There's a man with a gun over there... telling me I've got to beware...

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The Ultra-Right Monthly Review , a Marxist magazine, has called the present situation ‘pre-fascist.’   That might not be quite accurate...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

The First "What Is To Be Done"

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“What Is To Be Done?” by Nikolai Chernyshevsky, 1863 To celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917,...
Friday, April 14, 2017

The Pirate Lenin

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“Black Sails,” Starz TV, Seasons 1-4, 2014-2017 Pirates usually get the corny clichéd treatment, as if Robert Lewis Stevenson was still...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Matrix is Real

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“Shrinking the Technosphere – Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit Our Autonomy, Self-Sufficiency and Freedom,” by Dimitry Orlov, ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Independent With Sheep

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“Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness, 1946 This book won the Nobel Prize for Literature back when and is probably unknown to most. ...