Contents

Essays

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Reflecting on Iran’s Presidential Election

Kenneth Couesbouc
Compulsive Investments

Mark Featherstone
On Critical Paranoia: Political Surrealism and Kinetic Utopia

Steve Best
The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education

Nick Egnatz
Capitalism’s Done Deal

Nick Egnatz
Is Obama a Socialist?

Robert Fantina
Republicans, Democrats and ‘Family Values’

Carl Finamore
Would You Rather Be Eaten by a Wolf or a Fox?

Joshua Brollier
Shoot to Kill? How about the Oil Execs too...

Salvatore Folisi
Culture of Lost Souls in Search of a Profit

Poetry

Little Big Pine
Shorebird