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...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Tearing the Whole Building Down: The Dead in Greensboro, NC.

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Sonic waves. Rock and roll sensibilities. Psychedelic blues guitar and rhythmic creativity that very few manage. Superlatives do not exis...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win: A Review of The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles For The People

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Much has been written about the German leftist guerrilla group the Red Army Fraktion (RAF). Naturally, most of what has been written is in ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pulling Karzai's Strings-Obama as Puppeteer

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In November 1963, the US-sponsored president of southern Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was murdered by members of that country's military. Th...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over--Protest the Occupations and Wars of Washington

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As Barack Obama's troop escalation begins in Afghanistan and talking heads debate how many more troops the US should send, the leadersh...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Obama Bowing to the Masters of War?

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The American people did not elect the Pentagon. They elected Barack Obama based a good deal on his promise to get US troops out of Iraq ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Buy Someone A Book For the Holidays!

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As a book reviewer, I come across a lot of books. Add to that the fact that I work in a library and one can see how many books of all kinds...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Continuing Saga of the Beatles’ White Album

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The culmination of the year that was 1968 was the release of the Beatles album familiarly known as the White Album. A collection of songs ...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Moving Beyond Hope-A Leftist Looks at the Near Future

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I can't deny the exhilaration I felt on Tuesday, November 4th when the presidential election was called for Barack Obama. When people i...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away-Iraq and Washington

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I should be used to it by now, but I'm not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capab...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

Obama and the Contradictions of Race in the United States

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When I got on the bus last April after Barack Obama's primary victory in North Carolina, the conversation was naturally enough about tha...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

She Ain't No Working Class Hero

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The recent selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee has revived the media's interest in what they love to ca...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Bad Guys to the Left, Evildoers to the Right--What's a Godfearing Country to Do?

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It's a classic antiauthoritarian trope that enemies don't really exist, therefore governments need to create them. The primary reas...