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...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Even Leftists Have to Take a Break

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Zappa Plays Zappa – First Avenue – February 16, 2014 The U.S. is not in the midst of an upheaval, as are so many countries.  So I’m no...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Disaster Capitalism Lives

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Climate Change is Coming For You Mostly, it seems like disasters happen to other people.   Well, they don’t.   Sometimes they happen to...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Titantic or the Battleship Potemkin - Your Choice

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"Save Our Unions – Dispatches from a Movement in Distress,” by Steve Early, 2013 Who would have thought we would be worried about ...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Russia, a Painterly Society

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"Desert of Forbidden Art ,” documentary by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope, 2010 If you were amazed by the beautiful images at ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Missing Links

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The Invisible Man Oddly, in Truthdig, Salon.com and Rolling Stone, defences of Marxism all appeared this week.   They were written, n...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

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"Spiritual Snake Oil – Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture,” by Chris Edwards, 2011 This book is by an atheist who trashes various n...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Tepid Brew

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"The New Black (The Old Black) – What Has Changed and What Has Not With Race in America,” edited by Kenneth W Mack and Guy-Uriel E Cha...