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Young: Contempt for International Law: NYTimes and WashPost on Iran
Blog Post, March, 21 2012
Kevin Young
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Although US media outlets routinely accuse the Iranian government of "contempt for international law", their own record reveals a systematic disdain for the laws being violated by the US and Israeli governments.
Young: The Last, Best Hope on Earth: The Popular Uprisings of 2011 and "the Optimism of Uncertainty"
Blog Post, December, 28 2011
Kevin Young
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If the past year has brought an intensification of the problems facing humanity, it has also sent a message about the courage, creativity, and resiliency of human beings. If there is any hope for the future, it lies in the protesters of 2011.
Young: The Violence That Never Happened: Occupy Wall Street and the Selective Outrage of the New York Times
Blog Post, November, 18 2011
Kevin Young
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Unprovoked police violence against Occupy protesters is consigned to Orwell's "memory hole" by New York Times coverage of the Nov. 15th raid of Zuccotti Park.
Young: The "Failure" of the Iraqi Government: US Opposition to Arab Democracy, in Iraq and Beyond
Blog Post, November, 03 2011
Kevin Young
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US government efforts to extend the Iraq occupation and its anguished reaction to the Iraqi refusal say much about US opposition to democracy in the region.
Young: "Kumbaya" and Bullets: The Few Winners and Many Losers with the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement
Blog Post, November, 01 2011
Kevin Young
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The recent mainstream debate over the free-trade agreements conveys a simple message: some people matter, most people don't.
Young: Latin American Opinion and US Policy
Blog Post, October, 30 2011
Kevin Young
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Venezuela and other US foes rank among the more democratic regimes in Latin America, according to their people
Young: 167 Million People Support Occupy Wall Street: The Time Is Ripe for a Mass Movement
Blog Post, October, 15 2011
Kevin Young
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54 percent of the US public, or 167 million people, support the Occupy Wall Street protests. The atmosphere is ripe for a mass movement.
Young: The Impact of Occupy Wall Street: Some Early Indicators
Blog Post, October, 10 2011
Kevin Young
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The range of elite responses to Occupy Wall Street is a telling indicator of the movement's momentum, and should give strength to participants.
Young: Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity
Blog Post, October, 01 2011
Kevin Young
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Current conflicts have exposed the tensions in Evo Morales's reform project, raising vexing questions about the possibilities for genuine social transformation in extraction-based economies. Some sort of resolution that goes beyond patchwork and r...
Young: The Democrats' Choice, and Ours
Blog Post, December, 06 2010
Kevin Young
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The US's profound democratic deficit---not fears of "big government"---explains why 52 percent of the public sympathizes with the Tea Party. The Democrats’ political survival may ultimately depend on their willingness to abandon pro-corporate, mil...
Young: Listening to the Generals
Blog Post, September, 17 2010
Kevin Young
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US intellectuals and the corporate press have long shown an awing reverence for the country’s high-ranking military commanders. Of course, the concepts of “national interest” and “expertise” which those commanders allegedly embody inevitably remai...
Young: Counter-Recruitment Season
Blog Post, August, 14 2010
Kevin Young
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Counter-recruitment involves providing young people with information about alternatives to military enlistment. Here I make a pitch for the importance of counter-recruitment and a brief starters’ guide for those who might be inclined to engage in ...
Young: Democratic Deficits, Disillusion, and the Decline of the Democrats
Blog Post, January, 25 2010
Kevin Young
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The recent surge in right-wing populism has deep roots in US society and recent history, but an often-neglected factor behind this phenomenon is the failure or absence of progressive alternatives to a status quo that is extremely undesirable---in ...
Young: Nurturing the "Healthy Nucleus": Thoughts on How to Engage with the White Working Class
Blog Post, January, 22 2010
Kevin Young
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The Tea Party crowd should not be merely dismissed or mocked. In fact, many of the angry white people who have mobilized against "big government" probably share most of the fundamental grievances and values of people on the left.
Young: The 2009 Latinobarómetro Poll
Blog Post, December, 15 2009
Kevin Young
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A brief summary of the major findings of the just-released Latinobarómetro poll, an annual poll covering 18 Latin American countries.
Young: Morally Right, Politically Popular, Economically Advantageous: Medicare For All
Blog Post, October, 11 2009
Kevin Young
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Proposals for single-payer health care not only constitute the morally superior solution to the health care crisis but are also overwhelmingly popular and promise huge economic benefits for ordinary people and for the economy as a whole. Without d...
Young: The US Antiwar Movement: Toward a Critical Self-Assessment
Blog Post, February, 23 2009
Kevin Young
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Reflections on some of the problems facing the antiwar movement, with emphasis on some of the internal weaknesses that we can easily remedy.
Young: 10 Vets Arrested Outside Presidential Debate
Blog Post, October, 16 2008
Kevin Young
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What's off-limits in the presidential debates...
Young: Good Veterans and Bad Veterans
Blog Post, May, 26 2008
Kevin Young
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A note on Veterans For Peace's exclusion from the May 26th Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC, and the general silencing of dissident veterans.
Young: "One of Those Guys the Army's Trying to Hide": Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith, 22
Blog Post, May, 19 2008
Kevin Young
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A brief account of Army Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith's transformation from a young teenager swept-up in the jingoist hysteria following 9-11 to a dedicated 22-year-old antiwar activist who works tirelessly to end the US occupation of Iraq, based on Go...
Young: Our Good Intentions in Iraq: More Imperialist Assumptions in Liberal Criticism of the Invasion/Occupation
Blog Post, April, 17 2008
Kevin Young
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The implicit or explicit attribution of good intentions to political leaders has been common to most critical commentary on the Iraq occupation. Just as in corporatist and Fascist societies of the past, this assumption helps reinforce the illusion...
Young: The Irrelevance of International Law: Imperialist Assumptions in Liberal Criticism of the War
Blog Post, April, 09 2008
Kevin Young
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A further look at how liberal critiques of the Iraq occupation help reinforce certain "imperialist assumptions."
Young: Iraq the "Mistake": The Pitfalls of Pragmatic Criticism of the War in Iraq
Blog Post, April, 09 2008
Kevin Young
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A look at how the New York Times and other liberal commentators criticize the Iraq occupation on pragmatic grounds while neglecting to question the basic logic of military imperialism
Young: Orientalism in Full Force: Edward Said, Liberals, and Iraq
Blog Post, April, 09 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
A critique of certain Orientalist and paternalist tendencies in liberal "criticism" of the war in Iraq, most notably that criticism's disdain for Iraqi opinion.
Young: The March of the Dead: "Pushing the Envelope" Through Nonviolent Direct Action
Blog Post, March, 23 2008
Kevin Young
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On March 19th demonstrations around the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the US/UK-led invasion of Iraq. Hundreds of people were arrested while performing nonviolent direct actions like the "March of the Dead" described here. This event...
Young: NEUTRALIZING RADICALISM: Capitalism, War, and the Legacy of MLK
Blog Post, January, 25 2008
Kevin Young
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An analysis of how Martin Luther King, Jr., is remembered my mainstream journalists, politicians, and intellectuals, and how the most radical aspects of his life are systematically omitted from the historical record.
