Sunday, June 25, 2017

Punk Never Dies

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“Subculture – the Meaning of Style,” by Dick Hebdige, 1979 Most people are vaguely aware that sub-cultures exist in many countries, and...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Something's Happenin' Here ...What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear...

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“The People’s Summit,” I did not attend this conference, which took place in Chicago on the weekend of June 9-11.   But clearly somethi...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

I Come From the American Empire

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Cornel West in Toronto, Canada A public event last week at the 86 th Canadian Humanities Congress at Ryerson University featured Corne...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Green Fallacies

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"Marx and the Earth – An Anti-Critique," by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, 2017 While JB Foster was swilling his celeb...
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...