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Strategic hamlets: a tool in class warfare

A rather self-righteous friend called me into question because of my government job, saying that I was part of the System and not really against it...
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The nation-state is a plague on all our houses by Chomsky, Rodney, and Zinn

"What would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system - because I think that's not a viable system. It's not...
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Radical communities

Nina Simone was once quoted as lamenting the civil rights movement of the 1960's warped intodisco in the 1970's. The quote may be false, the...
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Worse than failed states and corrupt political class is our empty anti-war left

The protests that mobilized before the 1991 and recent 2003 US invasions in the Middle East were indeed historic events rarely paralleled in...
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If this economy is as good as it gets, then what?

Our political class, full of optimism, themselves, and tipping the next election or poll in their favor, has been on the Mother of All Campaign...
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Our new international communist conspiracy and the persistent decimation of demoralized wage-workers

What is the new international communist conspiracy? The old one was a figment of the malicious minds of Western powers whose grossest imperial...
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Obama orders renewed security measures but continues US massacre in Afghanistan

Much was made of the near 300 lives the Nigerian bomber nearly extinguished on Christmas 2009. But interestingly and painstakingly, no mention is...
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Dec 25th attempted bombing not a systemic failure but an institutional one

I woke Dec 26th to the startling news that a terrorist attack was launched against a commercial airline. Possible links to the all-ominous "al...
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Reflections on a year of living with Obama's change has been a police state

I have been away for awhile, feeling as many Barack Obama supporters must: a bit disappointed to say the least. While I was admittedly not an Obama...
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US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Like a good person of color I am supposed to celebrate the nomination and confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's High Court. And I...
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