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Kavanagh: “No matter what the law actually says”: The Snowden Revelations and the Eternal Surveillance State
Blog Post, June, 18 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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The sudden cascade of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden through Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Laura Poitras in the Guardian, and Barton Gellman in the Washington Post has provided stark confirmation of our worst fears about t...
Kavanagh: "Carry On Margaret": Still Playing in Theaters Near You
Blog Post, April, 09 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Thatcher was absolutely right that her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labor, and -- as Obama's encomium makes quite explicit -- there's a fine parallel in that her partner, Reagan's, greatest achievement was setting an agenda that Cl...
Kavanagh: The Road to Syria: "It all depends on what America says"
Blog Post, April, 02 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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It's really quite depressing to watch the utter destruction of another Arab state unfold, framed once again as some kind of project for humanitarianism and/or democracy. It's depressing to know that it will engender chaos and violence throughout t...
Kavanagh: Snowball in Hell:The Momentum of Same-Sex Marriage in Our Sulfurous Polity
Blog Post, March, 27 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Glenn Greenwald’s column, “The gay marriage snowball and political change,” makes an important point about how the growing momentum of the movement for same-sex marriage rights demonstrates that change, even radical and rapid change, is possible.
Kavanagh: The Heart of the Matter: US Media Replace Rachel Corrie with Israeli Spy
Blog Post, March, 25 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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When a young man interrupted President Obama's speech, shouting in Hebrew, American media outlets reported that the man was protesting about Jonathan Pollard, the imprisoned Israeli spy. The heckler was actually an Arab-Israeli student who was qu...
Kavanagh: "I feel a lot of horror" Remember Rachel Corrie
Blog Post, March, 24 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. Rachel was a 23-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington and a student at Evergreen State College, who was crushed to death by an Israeli/American (Caterpillar) bulldozer on Ma...
Kavanagh: Reminder: It Has Happened Here
Blog Post, February, 22 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Every social advance, every social benefit that was won from the American ruling class, was only ceded because organized labor fought for it.
Kavanagh: Shutterbugged: Oscar-nominated Palestinian Director Detained at LAX
Blog Post, February, 22 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Palestinian director of 5 Broken Cameras, was detained wirh his family at LAX and threatened with deportation.
Kavanagh: Coming Clean: Irish Prime Minister Makes an Extraordinary, Moving Apology for the Magdalene Laundries
Blog Post, February, 21 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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It’s really an extraordinary speech in which the leader of a country abandons and denounces “generations” of self-indulgent nationalist/culturalist mythologizing.
Kavanagh: Flight Club: The No-Fly List and the Authoritarian Theater of the Absurd
Blog Post, February, 19 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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[I]t is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. ? Franz Kafka, The Trial
Kavanagh: SNL Skewers America's more-Zionist-than-thou Politics (Updated)
Blog Post, February, 13 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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SNL skewers America's more-Zionist-than-thou politics.
Kavanagh: As Syria Devolves, Israel Rampages
Blog Post, February, 05 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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The Israeli attack on Syria last week confirms that the US has assured Israel in advance that, whatever transpires from the US-backed rebellion, Israel will get the net benefit of a weakened Syrian state, open to at-will Israeli incursion.
Kavanagh: The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
Blog Post, January, 31 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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A left argument for gun rights. The right of citizens to own guns is a fundamental political right, the historical product of popular struggles.
Kavanagh: God Is On Their Side: No Regrets for America's Jihad Wars
Blog Post, January, 18 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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No force in the world has done more than the government of the United States to create a radical global jihad army.
Kavanagh: Sticks and Drones, and Company Men: The Selective Outrage of the Liberal Caste
Blog Post, January, 15 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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The dominant strategy of liberal cate has becom to pick easy, loud rhetorically crude reactionary targets to demonize, while embracing the pernicious, but smooth and rhetorically sophisticated liberal imperialists whose work the commentators, and ...
Kavanagh: Obama's Cliff Dive
Blog Post, January, 09 2013
Jim Kavanagh
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Obama made a deal to give new, permanent tax cuts to the wealthy, and paved the way for Social Security and Medicare to be put on the chopping block.
Kavanagh: Humbug and Hogwash: Human Rights Watch Expels “racist and enemy of human rights” Richard Falk
Blog Post, December, 29 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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Human Rights Watch has expelled Richard Falk under pressure from Zionist watchdog group.
Kavanagh: The Long Con: Social Security and Medicare in the “Grand Bargain”
Blog Post, November, 14 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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“Social Security and Medicare have absolutely nothing to do with the short-term U.S. fiscal problem.” And, no, not “long-term,” either, in any way that requires what’s being proposed. Please, read the article by William Lind, which contains the ch...
Kavanagh: Election Choices: What to Do Instead
Blog Post, November, 08 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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Having made the case against voting for Obama in a previous post, it’s only fair for me to suggest the alternative. I value the right to vote as fundamental. I have seen how people who don’t have that right fight for it, and how people who get ...
Kavanagh: Election Choices: Obama or Not?
Blog Post, October, 28 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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We’re up against it now. Less than two weeks left. Those on the left confront their quadrennial quandary, and the inescapable debate: to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee or not.
