Summer 2009
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Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Reflecting on Iran’s Presidential Election“One does not have to be a fan of Ahmadinejad to find his opponents’ “green revolution” a dubious – perhaps disgraceful – project. It is one thing to use the voters’ dissatisfaction with the status quo to win an election. It is quite another thing to abuse that dissatisfaction and the election process to defy the election results when they turn out to be at variance with what you wishfully projected.”
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Kenneth Couesbouc
Compulsive Investments“Always more for those who have too much, the Draconian law of capitalism where wealth is private and its usage must bring a return. And so wealth accumulates without restraint, with the state its obedient servant.”
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Mark Featherstone
On Critical Paranoia: Political Surrealism and Kinetic Utopia“Although the exploitation of events is, of course, essential to revolutionary change it is not enough to simply wait on turbulence because it is clear that today turbulence is normal.”
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“Critical animal studies’ revolutionary outlook sees ‘separate’ problems as related to the larger system of global capitalism, and rejects the reformist concept of ‘green capitalism’ as a naïve oxymoron.”
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Nick Egnatz
Capitalism’s Done Deal“It seems the healthcare reform deal has been struck and the ‘reform’ will consist of little more than an increase in health insurance companies’ business and profits.”
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Nick Egnatz
Is Obama a Socialist?“Obama said the solution was to give the ‘banksters’ more money so that they would have enough to loan it back to citizens, many now out of both home and job. A socialist would have stood for a peoples’ recovery.”
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Robert Fantina
Republicans, Democrats and ‘Family Values’“A more universal definition of family values might be mutual respect, tolerance, acceptance of differences, and service. It might include instilling in individuals and families knowledge of the less fortunate, and a desire to assist them.”
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Carl Finamore
Would You Rather Be Eaten by a Wolf or a Fox?“How much economic and social injustice has to happen before the labor and progressive movement leaders begin shouting, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore?’”
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Joshua Brollier
Shoot to Kill? How about the Oil Execs too…“If the American public is ready to condone mass assassinations in Afghanistan and elsewhere, we should apply our logic fairly and be ready to stomach them here at home.”
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Salvatore Folisi
Culture of Lost Souls in Search of a Profit“There is something about being constantly, incessantly assaulted by people who want my money that is insulting and demeaning to the dignity and condition of being alive. I can’t walk two feet in this world without being encouraged to purchase something – as if I am the constant prey of ‘predator-humans.’”
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Little Big Pine
Shorebird (Poetry)
