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Langtree:
Forum Post, February, 10 2013
Rick Langtree
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In the terms of the "Propaganda Model", the ads are propaganda too. Ed and Noam pointed out how the ads, with their superior production- and conception-values, are the media-content, linked together with mostly routine car-chase-bank-robbery-roma...
Goodrich: Women's role in Egyptian society
Forum Post, February, 09 2013
John Goodrich
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With some 90% of women in Egypt having undergone the misogyny of FGM , it is difficult to see how the totalitarian male-dominated nuclear family structure can be changed anytime soon . Undereducated and insecure in their maleness, the men will ten...
Rissler: Reparations
Forum Post, February, 08 2013
Michael Rissler
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One definition of this word is "something done or paid in expiation of a wrong." It is so clear that wrong has been done against immigrants, apart from the question of documented or undocumented, and there needs to be a righting of...
Valentino:
Forum Post, February, 08 2013
Joseph Valentino
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our problems stem from what we do everyday 'clean energy and transport' is a myth the '1%' is a myth where do banks and energy companies get their money from? us we are the problem we are the solution let's do something else
Small: Assume makes a ....
Forum Post, February, 08 2013
Brian Small
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The key line is "Integral fast reactors can, in principle, keep recycling nuclear waste until a tiny residue remains, whose components have half-lives of tens rather than millions of years..." In principle.. I can't remember where I ...
snow: Re: Re: Please pass the strawberry jam
Forum Post, February, 07 2013
keith harmon snow
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Hello I did read it. In my interpretation it reads as favorable to cops having guns, and gun control. My comments stand. Thnak you.
Landau: Re: Please pass the strawberry jam
Forum Post, February, 07 2013
Saul Landau
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If you read my column you would see I did not argue for gun control. Rather, I said, the problem was cultural -- men polishing their manhood. And I don't think automaic weapons protect us from the very heavily armed state
snow: Please pass the strawberry jam
Forum Post, February, 07 2013
keith harmon snow
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Mr. Landau, you offer the rather typical liberal viewpoint on "gun control", espousing the usual platitudes, even some truisms such as: "Guns amount to a cultural cancer in US society.... etc." But unless you are willing ...
Small: A pleasure
Forum Post, February, 07 2013
Brian Small
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It might be a pleasure to "rewire our hearts and minds to meet the greatest threat of our or any human time." this wording made me think of _The Heart of Mathematics, An invitation to Effective Thinking_. "Sometimes u...
Goodrich: AND?????
Forum Post, February, 06 2013
John Goodrich
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Absent a change to SOCIALISM in one form or another, a word that ZNet articles written by progressives and not principled leftists , seem reluctant to use preferring euphemisms like "a democratic, just and economically prosperous societ...
Gramnes: More women torturers!
Forum Post, February, 05 2013
Jens Gramnes
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For quite some time I've been critical of the brand of "feminism" which thinks it is paramount to advance womens positions everywhere in society. I remember one Swedish feminist who didn't want to accept that perhaps it's a b...
Rissler: Cognitive Dissonance
Forum Post, February, 05 2013
Michael Rissler
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This is the term when there are conflicting opinions that a person holds. I don't think I suffer from this when it comes to combat. U.S. foreign policy is what zcommunications readers understand very well. No need to comment ...
Emersberger: See comments on his article at this link
Forum Post, February, 05 2013
Joe Emersberger
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http://labornotes.org/2013/01/novel-idea-fiction-labor-activists
Aronson: Re: A bit of recent history and Prof. Zunes
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Sanda Aronson
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Correction of typo:the word should be "thought". (Techs for Znet, an edit button would be of help.)
Aronson: A bit of recent history and Prof. Zunes
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Sanda Aronson
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I'm reading Blowback, the first in the trilogy by Chalmers Johnson (edited by Tom Engelhardt), 2000, after having read the 2nd and 3rd volumes, Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis, based on availability from my library. I would guess tha...
Phillips: Unions Feelings?
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Blair M. Phillips
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At my place of work, GM of Canada(engine plant) almost the entire CAW & TCA - Local 199 membership support todays Monetorism economic policies. Almost all the CAW & TCA - Local 199 elected leadership support todays Capitalism. Mi...
Makin: Algerian role in fostering Islamist terror groups?
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Alexis Makin
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According to Professor Jeremy Keenan (New Internationalist, Dec 2012), there are important links between the 'Islamist' groups, such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Din, and the Algerian Intelligence services. Keenan states...
Rissler: Our contagion
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Michael Rissler
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Once again we see that one of the things, perhaps the most abundant thing, that the U.S. exports is violence--militarization, and eventually chaos. It is a common story and is repeated throughout the world.
Goodrich: Hitchens totally correct on Egypt
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
John Goodrich
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"He admired the force of the uprising, but claimed that Egyptian society was unlettered in the ways of civil society organising, and again warned about the demon Islamists taking control." AND....The MB won the election and has already...
Guerlain: Essentialism
Forum Post, February, 03 2013
Pierre Guerlain
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Dear Vijay Prashad, I often read you with interest and i aslo often agree with you. Your latest column about Mali though made me pause. A lot of what you say about French interests in the Sahel region or the rhetoric of the French president is ac...
