Summer 2011 The Post 9/11 Decade
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Fran Shor
Declining U.S. Hegemony + Rising Chinese Power: A Formula for Conflict?“The geopolitical role of the United States, operating under the disciplinary regime of military neo-imperialism, may be seen as an effort to shore up fading economic hegemony.”
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Anis Shivani
The Terrorists Have Won: Reflections on a Lost Decade“In short, the country was already in the midst of paranoia, delusion, unreality, myth, and fantasy before 9/11; the event just became the perfect accelerator for tendencies already clearly in evidence.”
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Kenneth Couesbouc
Twenty Years After“People are expressing their indignation ever more loudly, and rulers are mobilising all their forces to quell these vociferations, some with pacifying gifts and others with bullets, while those who are elected are desperately looking for scapegoats.”
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Eric Walberg
Russia’s Middle East Dilemma“The neocon wars of the 2000s were the steel fist approach to subduing Islam: kill millions and terrorise the survivors. But they have been a disaster, made the US and Israel pariahs, and left a trail of terrorism in their wake.”
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Robert Fantina
Life in the New Millennium“The Democrats continue to demonstrate a craven attitude toward any meaningful change that might possibly jeopardize their reelection chances. And the Republican Party is now controlled by a wing so extreme that it would welcome a return to the Dark Ages.”
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Gideon Polya
The Post-9-11 Decade by Numbers: The American Holocaust“The only thing that will save millions more Afghans from death will be that America can no longer afford to kill them.”
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Bill King
George W. Bush Talkin’ Blues (Poetry) -
Bruce Bromley
“We Can Fight with the Mind”: Rethinking Transcendence“I ask that more of us remember the potency of questioning what we have been taught or come to value, recall the verity that no creature is precisely identical with the conceptions professed to order it.”
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Carl Finamore
San Francisco Police Claim Black Youth Shot Himself… Say What!“We know that a young Black man was shot dead and we know that those who have the most to gain by blaming the victim are leading the investigation and churning out facts of the case.”
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Carl Finamore
Chicago Burning (Review)“Sometimes, landlords would actually burn out discontented tenants when they gradually began to protest their conditions.”
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Little Big Pine
Mayapple Spring (Poetry)
