April 2007
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Three Nights in Philly By Joe Bageant
24 April 2007 — Joe Bageant Skinned goats, phantom love and the providence of prostitutes By Joe Bageant A fellow expatriate told me recently when I left Belize, Central America, which I now consider my home: “America is a sticky place, Joe, hard to get out of again, even from a short visit. The everyday Continue reading
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Media Lens: Newsnight Editor Responds On The Nicholas Burns Interview
26 April 2007 — Media Lens On April 17, we published our Media Alert, ‘The BBC’s Gavin Esler Interviews US Undersecretary Of State Nicholas Burns’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070417_the_bbcs_gavin.php) We noted how Esler had completely failed to challenge Burns on the catastrophe afflicting Iraq, despite damning reports just published by the Red Cross and the United Nations High Continue reading
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A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard By Joe Bageant
If there is one bright spot in the bleak absurdity of slogging along in our new totalist American state, it is that ordinary working Americans are undisciplined as hell. We are genuine moral and intellectual slobs whose consciousness is pretty much glued onto an armature of noise, sports, sex, sugar and saturated fats. Oh, we… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC’s Gavin Esler Interviews Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns
Who would guess from media reporting that Iraq is being convulsed by a human cataclysm? And who would guess that this catastrophe is the result of American and British criminality? Continue reading
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Flogging the Bloggers, Hobbling the Hip-Hoppers By William Bowles
14 April 2007 I’ve been writing the current series of these here essays for over four years and until recently at a frenetic pace, almost five hundred of the little fuckers in total. During this time we have seen the emergence of the cursed ‘Blog’, a curse because as per usual, the medium has become Continue reading
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On the outside looking in or on the inside looking out? By William Bowles
9 April 2007 Marx’s famous dictum that ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it’[1], is never more appropriate than now. Yet in spite of the absolutely desperate state of the world, we seem to be even more removed from the political process than our ancestors were Continue reading
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Truth and consequences By William Bowles
5 April 2007 In the space of around 25 years, the combination of the computer and the global telephone network have transformed communications. From its early days at the beginning of the 1980s, when, aside from a handful of transnational media corporations, computer-based communications existed only in defence-related academia (eg ARPANET) or the weird world Continue reading
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I was nobody By William Bowles
3 April 2007 ‘I was nobody. I had no desires, no will, no likes, no dislikes. I had been fashioned to resemble as closely as possible a human model which I had not chosen and which did not suit me. Day after day since my birth, I had been made up: my gestures, my attitudes, Continue reading
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To Nuke or not to Nuke? That is the question By William Bowles
2 April 2007 “All options are on the table” – President Bush on Iran For well over a year now pundits on both the left and the right have been telling us that the US/Israel Axis is about to bomb/invade Iran; those on the right say it with glee and on the left with understandable Continue reading
The New Dark Age 