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• Kenneth E Hartman
  Paying with Time

  “The prison-industrial complex has subverted and subsumed the practice of punishment, converting it into a malodorous fodder, a foul commodity to support the vast, multi-layered infrastructure of mass incarceration.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Crimes of the Father: Oedipus sans Complex

  “Though royalty herself, Antigone is not someone who can have children under any and all conditions. For her to procreate, society must be at least relatively just. If she cannot make it so, then at least she’ll die trying.”

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• Salvatore Folisi
  Violence as Entertainment

  “When the body, the instincts, the passions, and our innate spiritual desires for a deeper and more fulfilling kind of communion with life and the world of others is denied us by our culture, crime and violence become attractive alternatives.”

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• Mats Svensson
  Chronicle of an Expulsion Foretold: The Crimes Have No Period of Limitations

  “The woman, the expelled, who was not even allowed to live in a tent, a tent below her house. The Brits are on the other side of the street, at the same distance as the Swedes are also the Spaniards, the Italians, the Belgians, the French and the Turks.”

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• Yvonne Ridley
  British Justice in Dock over Abu Qatada

  “Let’s remember why Abu Qatada came to Britain with his family in the first place… he was fleeing persecution in Jordan, a country where human rights are as rare as hens’ teeth.”

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• Dennis Chapman
  Ideology or Ethics: Upholding the Nash Equilibrium in Civil Society

  “Current ideology legitimates social crimes which benefit one party over another at all stages and levels of policy. In particular, it is a capitalist enterprise to give lip service to ethics whilst persecuting those who practise ethics in reality.”

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• Ron Jacobs
  Extract from The Co-Conspirator’s Tale – A Newspaper Report (Fiction)

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• Little Big Pine
  Psalm to Antigone (Poetry)

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• John Ripton
  The Great Regression

  “As happens often throughout history, those who benefit from the status quo cling to its ideologies and institutions even as fundamental ideas and established systems become increasingly anachronistic, almost impervious to reform. No vision is developed, no program of broad policy changes considered, no progress made.”

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• Reza Fiyouzat
  Direct Representation for Taxation

  “The current taxation system is the equivalent of a shopping situation, in which the shopkeeper demanded and got whatever amount of money he thought he could get out of you, and in return gave you whatever he wanted to give you!”

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Understanding Unemployment: Keynesian vs. Marxian Explanations

  “The Marxian view provides a more logical and promising solution to the problem of economic hardship than the neat, purely intellectual, and apolitical Keynesian stimulus packages, which are based on the hope or illusion that the government can control and manage capitalism.”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  Class Struggles

  “A century and a half ago, a few dreamers claimed that property was the inheritance of labour. It seems that their logic is shared by an ever growing world community, who have nothing to lose but their debts.”

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• Martha Rosenberg
  Who Would Intentionally Kill Blackbirds?

  “Whether killing fish to save a pond or blackbirds to help farmers, government wildlife officials honor neither the “public” or “trust” in the Public Trust Doctrine they are sworn to.”

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