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Joe Bageant: Joe picks and sings Hemingway’s Whisky
Here is an outtake from The Kingdom of Survival, a documentary now in production that includes interviews with Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky, a radical book publisher, a cabin builder, a musician, and a radio host. This segment was shot one year ago when Joe was visiting his home in Winchester, Virginia. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Joe picks and sings Hemingway's Whisky
Here is an outtake from The Kingdom of Survival, a documentary now in production that includes interviews with Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky, a radical book publisher, a cabin builder, a musician, and a radio host. This segment was shot one year ago when Joe was visiting his home in Winchester, Virginia. Continue reading
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Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation By Morris Berman
Joe came from unlikely roots to have formulated the political viewpoint that he did: working-class, right-wing, anti-intellectual, flag-waving, small-town Virginia. A “leftneck,” someone dubbed him; it’s not a bad description. Continue reading
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The serious questions raised by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair By David North and David Walsh
The arrest of French financier and politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York City on sexual assault charges and his continued imprisonment is a disturbing event with far-reaching implications. Continue reading
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Opposition to Paying for Capitalism’s Crime: A Global Movement (Video) By Richard D. Wolff
16 April 2011 — Truthout Objective economic analysis is difficult to come by in this heated political moment, with deep budget cuts that disproportionately affect the poor and working class while the top one percent of Americans continues to amass wealth at a record pace. Professor Richard D. Wolff’s academic work and public lectures warning… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 16:02:38 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Years… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 15:56:58 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10… Continue reading
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Rising Food Prices and the Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World By Ellen Brown
Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. Analysts estimate that food price inflation in Egypt is currently at… Continue reading
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Zinn on class in America
Howard Zinn Pt1: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class. Continue reading
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Race, Class and Crisis: What New Possibilities for the U.S. Left? – with Adolph Reed
The economic crisis that started in U.S. housing markets in 2007 quickly swept across the world market. A long period of stagnation and austerity now seems to be the order of the day. While all working class people have felt the impact of the crisis on their lives and work, the crisis has also been… Continue reading
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Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle By Jeffery R. Webber and Susan Spronk
In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Hired Hands – Part 1: Iran, Obama, Gaza, And MPs’ Expenses
Inevitably, then, corporations do not restrict themselves merely to the arena of economics. Rather, as John Dewey observed, “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business”. Over decades, corporations have worked together to ensure that the choices offered by ‘representative democracy’ all represent their greed for maximised profits. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 70 The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat
On May 12, in New York City, a debate was held on the proposition that ‘Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere’ (English translation: ‘Should we bomb Iran?’). Arguing in the affirmative, were Liz Cheney, former State Department official (and daughter of a certain unindicted war criminal) and Dan Senor, formerly the top spokesman for Washington’s… Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt.2
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Part Two Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt. 1
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Continue reading
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Welcome to the crony capitalist convention where New Labour got into bed with the bankers but we were the ones who got screwed
14 February 2009 The cry goes up, ‘wha’ happened?’ The former boss of HBOS, Sir James Crosby became head of the Financial Services Authority allegedly the ‘watchdog’ of the financial sector and then it emerges that Crosby was one of the architects of what Michael Hudson describes as: “The commercial banks…us[ing] their credit-creating power not… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 