Monday, May 31, 2010

Rachel Corrie Lives-The Israeli Attack On the Aid Flotilla

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Just when you think Israel can not do anything more to anger most of the world, it does. The attack on the aid flotilla of ships that inclu...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

When the Sunshine Rose and Set On the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

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The popular history of the 1960s includes a number of stories that are rife with rumor and unsubstantiated tales. From the possibility of c...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

It's Hard to Run With the Weight of Lead...

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The last days of April 1970 seemed relatively uneventful. The first Earth Day occurred on April 22nd that year. For the most part it bore ...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Did Capitalism Destroy China's Democratic Stirrings?

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Back in 1989, the world was captivated by media images of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students and workers camped out in Tienanmen Squa...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Blues Had a Baby and They Named Him Jimi Hendrix-Spirits of the Red House

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My friends and I used to fantasize about a life after death in a rock and roll heaven. Although there would be many guitarists present in t...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Of Course Narcs Are Crooked....

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We've all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues,...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

I See Hawks and Earthworms--Let's Rock

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When one travels through the North American continent, one is certain to run into places where the emptiness is overwhelming; where the land...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Just Walk Away From the Democrats

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The left needs to organize the unorganized. The working people, the unemployed, the young, and the restless. The right wing has their core ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

War On Terror or War On Disaffected Yemenis?

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As if the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough to satiate the Empire's bloodlust, the calls are increasing for an al...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Politics and Science Fiction

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Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane released an album titled Blows Against the Empire in 1970. Besides the fact that it...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Judge Roy Bean Takes His Court to Manhattan

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After several months of delay due to the legal concerns of his publisher American author Robert Coover published the novel The Public Burnin...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Barely A Peep...Escalation Unopposed

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When school started in September 1969 I was attending a Catholic high school located twenty miles outside of Washington, DC. in Laurel, MD. ...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Agitator Journalism: Remembering Ramparts

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Many folks oriented toward the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s have a story or two about Ramparts magazine. I personally discovered t...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

Into the Vapid : Consuming the Cultural Product

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Britney Spears, American Idol, Desperate Housewives ... The material that passes for popular culture has never been so vapid. Indeed, it...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Out of the Haze... Into the Darkness--Recalling 1979

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I found myself in San Diego, CA. when 1979 began. Our traveling group of friends had left the environs of Santa Cruz a few months previous b...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Flashback to the End of a War That Really Did End

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April 30, 1975. The war was over. Really over. This wasn't like the peace treaty all the leaders signed in 1973 that didn't reall...