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Forum Post Street: Michael Moore and Barack Obama: A Love Story

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Paul Street
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If you liked Michael Moore's latest movie, “Capitalism: a Love Story” (I did) and are long past being fed up with Barack Obama's deep allegiance and service to his corporate paymasters (I am), then this essay might be for you. I start with som...

Forum Post Zirin: Obama’s Olympic Error

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Dave Zirin
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President Barack Obama is now en route to Copenhagen in an effort to sell Chicago as the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the process, he may be selling Chicago down the river. Obama is joined arm-in-arm with his wife Michelle on one side and ...

Forum Post Pollitt: Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Katha Pollitt
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If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famous director, a lot of famous and gifted people think the answer is yes. Polanski, who drugged and anally raped ...

Forum Post Klein: America's Teacher

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Naomi Klein
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Klein interviewing Moore about his new film...

Forum Post Zirin: The Serena Williams Double Standard

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Dave Zirin
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A top-ranked tennis player in a moment of rage cursed out a judge and shocked the world, headlining every sports and news program from ESPN to MSNBC. Meanwhile, another champion tennis player hurled expletives at a judge and the media barely yawne...

Forum Post Zirin: Caster Semenya and the Idiocy of Sex Testing

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Dave Zirin
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World-class South African athlete Caster Semenya, age 18, won the 800 meters in the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships on August 19. But her victory was all the more remarkable in that she was forced to run amid...

Forum Post Pilger: Cover-Up: A Film's Travesty Of Omissions

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 John Pilger
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On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian d...

Forum Post Dangl: Why We Should All Boycott Union Busting Beer Corporations

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Ben Dangl
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When Obama sat down for a beer in the White House Rose Garden with Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley, they all turned their backs on the smaller, craft brewers of the country. Obama chose Bud Light, Gates asked for Red Stripe, and Crowley drank...

Forum Post Pilger: Books That Counter Our "Training" To Make War

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 John Pilger
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These are extraordinary times. Flag-wrapped coffins of 18-year-old soldiers killed in a failed, illegal and vengeful invasion are paraded along a Wiltshire high street. Victory in Afghanistan is at hand, says the satirical Gordon Brown. On the BBC...

Forum Post Vijghen: dreamer

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Samira Vijghen
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musings into melancholia. it happens. sometimes i write about it.

Forum Post Billet: Kanye, the VMAs and the Spectacle of Controversy

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Alexander Billet
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Over the years, MTV's notion of "controversy" has become about as enticing as a trip to the corner store to pick up toilet paper. That the media can't stop talking about Kanye West's "outburst" is proof that they're really grasping at straws. The ...

Forum Post Fisk: You won't find any lessons in unity in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Robert Fisk
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Seeing is believing. Providing you're not a Palestinian or an Armenian or anyone interested in property rights.

Forum Post Billet: With Arms Closed

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Alexander Billet
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WARNING: the following sentence may cause you to vomit a little bit in your mouth. Creed have reunited and are releasing a new album.

Forum Post Dimaggio: Don't Stop Till You Get Enough?

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Anthony Dimaggio
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Michael Jackson's death set off an explosion of media attention. Reporters can't seem to get enough of the “King of Pop” as they reaffirm our media's morbid obsession with celebrity death and tragedy. Journalists update often unwilling audienc...

Forum Post Mcintosh: Willy Wonka and the Racism Factory

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Jonathan Mcintosh
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The most recent film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is shaping up to be one of the highest grossing summer blockbusters of 2005. This is the third re-incarnation of Roald Dahl's controversial story over the past four decades. As s...

Forum Post Zinn: Sacco and Vanzetti

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Howard Zinn
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An excerpt from Howard Zinn's book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress...

Forum Post Goodman: Pete Seeger Carries Us On

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Amy Goodman
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It was some garden party. Eighteen-thousand people packed into Madison Square Garden Sunday night to celebrate the first 90 years of Pete Seeger’s life.

Forum Post Ali: The longest link in the chain

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Mahir Ali
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Pete Seeger’s commitment to folk music as a vehicle for raising political consciousness dates back to the 1940s, when he was a member of The Almanac Singers (as well as the Communist Party). He had drifted out of the Party by the time he founded...

Forum Post Loewen: Harper On Hunger Strike For Minority Rights

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Matt Loewen
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Hypothetical Satirical Harper-copying-Evo.

Forum Post Dangl: Grassroots Beer Brewers Score a Victory in Utah

Forum Post, January, 12 2010 Ben Dangl
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Beer Brewers Score a Victory in Utah

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