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The Man Who Loved Books: Interview With Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco at the University of Milan, 2014. The famed author (The Name of the Rose) and semiologist, Umberto Eco, who so loved books, must have thought it his misfortune to live in a country whose...
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The End of the Corbyn Era
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair As the Labour Party chooses its next leader, the future of the Corbyn project hangs in the balance and the field of candidates has already begun to narrow. Party members...
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A Fascist Coup Attempt in Germany
Photograph Source: Rosenkohl – CC BY-SA 4.0 While millions this week stared at Iowa and Washington with worried amazement, confusion or anger, Germany, too, had its own messy confusion – which turned...
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American Burlesque
Photograph Source: United States Senate – Public Domain “They got a big theayter what they call the burleykew, an’ fur fifty cents yuh can see a dandy show.” – Oklahoma! Rogers and Hammerstein.)...
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These Drugs are in US Meat But Not on the Label
Photograph Source: velkr0 – CC BY 2.0 Thanks to animal welfare groups, most people are now aware of “factory farms.” Concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs abuse workers, animals, the...
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Trump, Racism, and Fascism – More than Just Personality Disorders
Photograph Source: Carnaval.com Studios – CC BY 2.0 After the supposedly post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, what passes for the liberal punditry discovered racism had arisen in the homeland. They...
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Shadow Coding: the Iowa Caucus and Carl Jung
Original statue of Jung in Mathew Street, Liverpool, a half-body on a plinth captioned “Liverpool is the pool of life”. Photograph Source: Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons – CC BY-SA 4.0 & GFDL...
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Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Photograph Source: JPRoger – CC BY-SA 3.0 With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—more commonly known as the Iran accord—we all enter into a heightened zone...
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Targeting Gender Nonconforming Youth
Photograph Source: brian kusler – CC BY 2.0 The U.S. has been a battlefield over cultural values for nearly 50 years. In states throughout the country, the religious right — together with local...
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Will There Be No Retribution?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Rep. Adam Schiff lied to Congress and the American people with a totally made up statement about the president’s phone call. Will there be no retribution?” – White...
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Crisis and Opportunity: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a...
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The Civilizing Sermon
Photograph Source: Thomas Geersing – CC BY 2.0 Discourse: communication in speech or writing; a speech or piece of writing about a particular, usually serious, subject; spoken or written discussion –...
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What Next for Bernie?
Last week’s deluge of dust is finally settling. As of this writing, nothing is yet official, and the DNC is calling for a total recanvassing of the results – perhaps they hope (without good reason)...
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Enemies of Democracy: Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Finance
Democracy is supposed to mean rule by people. In the West, it means rule by upper classes via periodic representational charades in which candidates represent corporate interests and occasionally...
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Neoliberalism and the Coronavirus
Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – CC BY 2.0 In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein notes that the TV sets owned by Americans were manufactured in China with the energy input from coal-burning. Those...
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Duh, Jared! So who built the PA as a ‘police state’?
Photograph Source: Ninian Reid – CC BY 2.0 Nazareth. Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump...
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The Economy Not Worth Defending: A Response to Trump’s State of the Union
Photograph Source: Bob Dass – CC BY 2.0 This president’s delusions of grandeur have few limits, as witnessed by the headlines across the nation following his state of the union. One New York Times...
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Roaming Charges: When Satan Quotes Scripture
Satan Spills the Plagues, William Blake. + The caucus system has been fetishized by the political pundit class for decades as an example of small state “town hall” style democracy in action. In fact,...
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Between the Quarantine and Quakes: Coronavirus Life in China
Chengdu, China I was not planning to end up in the middle of a coronavirus outbreak here in the People’s Republic of China for my long winter break. I had been planning on increasing my one-on-one...
View ArticleThe Game is Rigged
Let’s not beat around the bush. The game is rigged. The fix is in. I’m not just talking about the neofascistic Donald Trump, the Republican Party, the Republican-controlled United States Senate and the...
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