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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Blog Post, December, 22 2011
Brian Dominick
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Despite the rhetoric of ideologues like Slavoj Žižek, an approach that looks beyond capitalism as the root of all evil will be key to the success of Occupy. Economics is my specialty, but even I recognize it’s not the whole game.
Dominick: The Jaws of Victory
Blog Post, November, 20 2011
Brian Dominick
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Only the Left could see a video showing victory as an example of defeat.
Dominick: Liberating Possibilities
Blog Post, November, 07 2011
Brian Dominick
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After articulating the relevance of longstanding economic and political crises to Americans’ everyday lives, the Occupy Wall Street movement must now make itself relevant to those same lives. Will the next phase be a dual-power movement?
Dominick: Small is Beautiful... Can Big Be, Too?
Blog Post, November, 04 2011
Brian Dominick
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Examining the productivity and stability offered by economies of scale and contrasting how market capitalism and participatory economics handle matters of scale.
Dominick: NY Times's Sympathy for the Devils
Blog Post, March, 09 2011
Brian Dominick
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The Paper of Record manages to elicit sympathy for gang rapists and cast aspersions on the 11-year-old survivor.
Dominick: Anarchy in Egypt
Blog Post, January, 31 2011
Brian Dominick
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When anarchy erupts in Egypt, journalists forget the word.
Dominick: Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore “Meh”
Blog Post, November, 02 2010
Brian Dominick
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Beyond being a bad show, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was mostly just a cynical protest of protest.
Dominick: Mainstream Argument for Parecon (Sort of)
Blog Post, May, 29 2010
Brian Dominick
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Cool animation argues for pareconish incentives.
Dominick: Israel/Palestine and Anti-Jews on the Left
Blog Post, February, 16 2008
Brian Dominick
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My concerns about anti-Jewish sentiment on the U.S. Left are bolstered by Internet wingnuts intent on slamming Jews in to bolster arguments against Israel.
Dominick: Target the Dems! A Radical Appeal to the U.S. Left
Blog Post, February, 16 2008
Brian Dominick
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The Democrats are set to take progressives and radicals for granted again while lunging toward the so-called "center" -- we shouldn't stand for it.
Dominick: NPR Erroneously Sounds Terror Alarm
Blog Post, February, 06 2008
Brian Dominick
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As if to exemplify what's wrong with public media, National Public Radio rides the terror-scare bandwagon into its upcoming fundraising.
Dominick: LA Times Buries Lead on 'Errant' Airstrike
Blog Post, February, 05 2008
Brian Dominick
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It takes a special kind of "journalist" to barely note the US tried to keep quiet an airstrike that killed 9 allies and civilians, all while doing your best to help soften the story.
Dominick: Reuters's Brief History of the Turkey-Kuridistan Conflict
Blog Post, February, 04 2008
Brian Dominick
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How to distort complicated context to bolster a Western perspective.
Dominick: Media Distorts Missile 'Defense' Plans
Blog Post, February, 03 2008
Brian Dominick
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The major media swallow government lies that NMD is a "defensive" program and Russia has nothing to fear.
Dominick: Cherry Picking Coverage of Iraq Tragedy
Blog Post, February, 02 2008
Brian Dominick
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On yesterday's car bombing, CNN defers to US sources when convenient while the AP interprets the tragedy as evidence of US success.
Dominick: Kind of Digging the New ZNet
Blog Post, December, 07 2007
Brian Dominick
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Checking out the new ZNet
Dominick: They Call this Journalism
Blog Post, April, 20 2005
Brian Dominick
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This lead from a recent Associated Press story jolted me out of my blogging hiatus. I just had to share it with you all (I'm tacking on the second sentence just because it's also a gem): Iraqi lawmakers adjourned in protest Tuesday and demanded...
Dominick: This is Not Fox News, Folks
Blog Post, March, 30 2005
Brian Dominick
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It is very unfortunate that some people seem intent on dragging the level of debate in these discussions of gender, pornography, etc, down to new lows. Many people on one side of this discussion seem to be making a mission out of trying to bait th...
Dominick: Blog Comments vs. Discussion Forums
Blog Post, March, 26 2005
Brian Dominick
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After following some of the very heated "threads" of comments on Lucinda Marshall's recent posts have prompted me to write this special post about the use of weblog comments. To date, I have already warned two users to cease using what I perceived...
Dominick: Ah, (Western) Objectivity
Blog Post, January, 25 2005
Brian Dominick
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Ran across this gem on the CNN site in my daily readings: In addition to their Western look and feel, [Iraqi campaign ads] carry Western messages such as freedom, tolerance and inclusion. That must be what they mean by a "moral compass."
Dominick: What to do with the Democratic Party?
Blog Post, November, 08 2004
Brian Dominick
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Jessica Azulay and I received a fairly substantial response to our recent essay, which was mostly a strategic presentation of what the hell progressives and radicals should do to make a difference in the coming years, starting with a major dose of...
Dominick: Mediocrity on the Left
Blog Post, August, 25 2004
Brian Dominick
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Perhaps the only thing more disappointing than watching liberals sell themselves short and shoot themselves in the proverbial feet is watching self-proclaimed leftists do the same thing. The once-promising United for Peace and Justice organization...
Dominick: Liberals and Mediocrity (or, "Anybody But Kerry")
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
Brian Dominick
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It's sort of amazing, if you think about it. One could hardly dream up an incumbent president who would be easier to defeat than George W. Bush, and yet the Democratic Party is getting a run for it's money because it chose one of the least inspiri...
Dominick: Bringing the 'Vietnam Syndrome' Back Home
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Brian Dominick
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Back in 1990, during the lead-up to the First Gulf War, George H.W. Bush talked about the need for his impending war not to suffer from what pundits called "the Vietnam syndrome." As the fable went, the media and antiwar movement, in cahoots again...
Dominick: More Make-Believe Terrorism
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
Brian Dominick
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The federal government is either astonishingly incompetent when it comes to prosecuting terror cases in the US, or it the Ashcroft Justice Department simply doesn't care because it's always the allegation headlines that make the front pages while ...
Dominick: Artists in Parecon -- a Response
Blog Post, August, 14 2004
Brian Dominick
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This is the aspect of parecon theory where I diverge 180 degrees. I cannot fathom why, or really even how, the work of artists (and I'll include "commentators" and social critics in that realm, just to make sure I'm dragged in as well), are to be ...
Dominick: Inconsistency gaining new consistency for Kerry?
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Brian Dominick
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Our good friend Rahul Mahajan recently concluded that candidate Kerry is being "illogical" vis-a-vis his stance on presidential powers with regard to warmaking. To me, it appears that for a would-be president, Kerry's stance is remarkably logical,...
Dominick: Allawi Unaware Marines Ravaging Najaf (Tell me another...)
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Brian Dominick
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If you believe Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, US Marines are operating outside Najaf and haven't entered the city. If you believe photography, video, countless eyewitnesses and US military commanders and troops, it seems Marines, soldiers and t...
Dominick: The Old Blogs are Dead -- Long Live the New ZNet Blog!
Blog Post, August, 06 2004
Brian Dominick
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I don't even want to begin explaining the nightmare I went to trying to fix the blog system, and then when that failed, trying to configure this new system to handle our special needs. But, alas, here it is -- an all new ZNet Blog powered by the...
