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December 30, 2012
The Idol Smasher
The multifaceted Ishmael Reed has spent half a century destroying myths of the American empire, especially those that cement racism in place.
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December 23, 2012
The Final Battle
Now that Congress has turned its back on the right to due process and trial by jury, the courts are the last line of defense against establishment of a gulag state.
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December 16, 2012
Egypt’s New Pharaoh
Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, with power in their grasp, are crushing those who stand in the way of single-party rule, and the government’s weapon of choice is the poor.
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December 9, 2012
The Unsilenced Voice of a ‘Long-Distance Revolutionary’
Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner and one of its few authentic revolutionaries, continues his fight for social justice after three decades in prison.
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December 2, 2012
Katrina, All Over Again
Hurricane Sandy, if you are poor, is the Katrina of the North. It has illustrated the depraved mentality of an oligarchic and corporate elite that, as conditions worsen, retreats into self-contained gated communities, guts basic services and abandons the wider population.
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November 26, 2012
Stand Still for the Apocalypse
Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank.
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Stand Still For the Apocalypse
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November 19, 2012
Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia.
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November 11, 2012
Once Again—Death of the Liberal Class
The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing.
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November 5, 2012
The S&M Election
I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards.
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