Summer 2008 1968
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Robert Fantina
That Was Then and This Is Now“Mr. Bush has introduced the Domino Theory in reverse; Iraq, he has proclaimed, will become a democratic example for the rest of the world. He will use his bombs, his torture chambers and his soldiers to force it to be so, completely regardless of the will of the Iraqi people.”
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J A Miller
A Personal Retrospective of 1968 from atop an Obelisk“In retrospect the American sixties seem little more than an extended party dabbling in leftist politics, sex and drugs that rapidly degenerated rightward into the crippling model of identity politics still in force today.”
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Gideon Polya
America, Zionism, Israel and the 1968-2008 Orwellian Transformation“1968 was also the year in which the US abstained from Security Council Resolution 252, demanding Israeli withdrawal from conquered Arab lands, and therein lies a malignancy that has spread to threaten the whole world in 2008.”
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Eric Walberg
Hardcore Piety (Review)“The Taqwacores is a startling expose of the Muslim youth scene in the US, as recorded by a member of a commune filled with Muslim punk-rockers in seedy, rundown Buffalo, New York, all with their unique takes on Islam.”
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Little Big Pine
Ocotillo Prayer (Poetry) -
Doug Dowd
What’s That Coming around the Corner?“We are now in just the first stages of a global financial crisis that can all too easily become an economy-wide-global-wide disaster; and is likely to do so. Why? Because we were taken here by governments, the leaders and participants of which accept the same mode of reasoning (and greed) as their 1920s predecessors.”
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Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Is There an Oil Shortage?“By purchasing large numbers of futures contracts, and thereby pushing up futures prices to even higher levels than current prices, speculators have provided a financial incentive for giant futures traders to buy even more oil and place it in storage.”
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David Macaray
Class Warfare Is Alive and Well“In truth, we’re as class-conscious in our own way as people were in Victorian England. Only we’re less confident, less comfortable with it, more willing, in fact, to go to extraordinary lengths to convince ourselves that we’re immune to such distinctions.”
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“Apparently, Ms. Jones for all her two years of research has managed a version of chick lit.”
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“If there is a lack of appropriate analysis of environmental processes and societal relations to nature because they don’t fit into the wishful thinking of ‘eternal capitalism,’ dangerous ways of ideologically processing the crisis can gain momentum.”
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“The idea is to keep one’s own oil and spend others’, to make sure strategic reserves of the energy and fuel that maintain a highly mechanized society (and, more importantly, mechanized armed forces) last long after everybody else has run out of theirs.”
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Paul Buchheit
Where Have You Gone, Gordon Gekko? Oh Right, You’re Still Here“Over the first half of the twentieth century, after the industrialists and financiers of the first Gilded Age rose to the same levels of wealth and power as today’s hedge fund managers, labor unions and populist social movements helped to curtail the effects of extreme inequality. Something similar is in the making now.”
