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McGehee: When it comes to "genocide," Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens
Blog Post, May, 22 2012
Michael McGehee
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There is just something about British left intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens fell from grace when he allowed his atheism to become a tool for Western imperialism. Now The Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens by allowing his outrage...
McGehee: Interview with William Penn University's Statesmen Status on Rwanda's Paul Kagame
Blog Post, May, 09 2012
Michael McGehee
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The following are my answers to a list of questions presented to me for a radio interview that, for whatever reason, never happened. When learning of how William Penn University was to award Paul Kagame, Rwanda's genocidal dictator, with an honora...
McGehee: Voting is Still the Least of Our Struggles
Blog Post, April, 05 2012
Michael McGehee
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As each election comes many of us foolishly believe that this time voting will matter. But it's a lot like a sign I saw in a bar: "Free Beer Tomorrow."
McGehee: The Underlying Message of Kony 2012: Hate Goldstein, Love Big Brother!
Blog Post, March, 12 2012
Michael McGehee
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Just as Israel is killing children in Gaza and Americans are killing children in Afghanistan, millions of decent and unsuspecting people fell prey to an imperial propaganda campaign: Kony 2012. The latest feel-good political stunt that claims to b...
McGehee: With Record High Profits, President Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Taxes!
Blog Post, February, 27 2012
Michael McGehee
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??"Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%." No, this is not a satirical piece from The Onion. This is the headline for a recent New York Times article.
McGehee: A Reply to Chris Hedges' 'The Cancer in Occupy': Stop Scapegoating Black Bloc, Look Within
Blog Post, February, 06 2012
Michael McGehee
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The interweb is abuzz on Chris Hedges latest column, "The Cancer in Occupy." While employing hyperbole and non sequitur's to take digs at Black Bloc, Hedges has managed to alienate himself from, and piss off, many non-Black Blocers.
McGehee: It's a Hostage Situation: President Obama's State of the Union Address
Blog Post, January, 25 2012
Michael McGehee
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Last night President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address where he talked a lot about bringing jobs back, and our manufacturing base, and a green jobs program, and taxing the rich.
McGehee: SOPA/PIPA: A Lesson to Learn
Blog Post, January, 19 2012
Michael McGehee
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An important battle was won, and while Wikipedia might be correct in saying that it's not over, an important lesson should be learned. We can win, but we shouldn't expect corporations to always be on our side.
McGehee: Election Madness: There is an alternative to electoral politics
Blog Post, January, 03 2012
Michael McGehee
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The hardest part about enduring election cycles as someone who sees them as rather unimportant and distracting from real issues and solutions is constantly having to answer, "What is the alternative?" It is frustrating beyond belief that it is not...
McGehee: Coups d'etat in Western Europe go unnoticed by Free Press
Blog Post, November, 22 2011
Michael McGehee
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Recently the President of Greece and Prime Minister of Italy were forced out of office and replaced with unelected technocrats with close ties to international banks. According to Barron's, a weekly financial newspaper, "the regime changes forced ...
McGehee: Frank Miller: apologist for Capitalism and Imperialism
Blog Post, November, 15 2011
Michael McGehee
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As a fan of Frank Miller's Sin City and Dark Knight comics, it was a punch in the gut to read his recent diatribe against the Occupy movents. I am referring to his blog piece "ANARCHY."
McGehee: Why Rudasingwa won't change the ICTR
Blog Post, November, 09 2011
Michael McGehee
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Even though the international jurist, Richard Goldstone, has said the 1994 assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana was "clearly related to the genocide" the role of Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patrtiotic Front (RPF) in carrying out the attack has...
McGehee: Liberalizing Libya: The return of colonial rule
Blog Post, October, 29 2011
Michael McGehee
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Regardless of what we think about Gaddafi, the facts are that Libya was, at least in terms of human development, a paradise in Africa and was moving towards the kind of regional integration that is badly needed to protect the continent from what w...
McGehee: Gaddafi was shot, beaten, and sodomized before being killed and buried in unmarked grave
Blog Post, October, 25 2011
Michael McGehee
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Gaddafi was shot, beaten and sodomized before being killed and buried in unmarked grave
McGehee: 'Free' Libya: The rise of NATO's racist, executing liberators
Blog Post, October, 24 2011
Michael McGehee
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Racism in Libya is nothing new. Anytime there is a class of poor immigrant workers whose ethnicity is not the same as the majority there is a prospect for racial conflict. In October of 2000 BBC reported that “thousands of African immigrants livin...
McGehee: Occupy, for the beginning is nigh
Blog Post, October, 19 2011
Michael McGehee
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Outside of the fact that for far too long we have been conditioned by a finely-tuned corporate propaganda system aimed at turning us into mindless, atomized, sedentary, flag-sucking consumers and spectators, one of the biggest problems we face, an...
McGehee: A History of Class War; Or, Why the Police will beat the shout out of protesters to protect the rich
Blog Post, October, 17 2011
Michael McGehee
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The folks of Boston are quickly realizing that the police are there to protect and serve . . . the rich.
McGehee: Afghanistan: We are not defending anything but Empire
Blog Post, October, 07 2011
Michael McGehee
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for ten years we have been waging an illegal war and occupation on one of the poorest and most defenseless countries in the world, in which we are propping up a corrupt government made up of warlords and drug lords, where most of the people have n...
McGehee: President Obama is Okay with Boiling People Alive
Blog Post, October, 01 2011
Michael McGehee
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In an article from yesterday entitled "United States and Uzbekistan Discuss More Supply Routes," we are informed that because, "the United States and Pakistan are locked in a diplomatic crisis over accusations linking Pakistan’s chief intelligence...
McGehee: US to Palestine: What applied to Kosovo doesn't apply to You!
Blog Post, September, 21 2011
Michael McGehee
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It is instructive how the US can support a state in Kosovo—which is led by a terrorist the US supported during their butchery against Serbia—even though it did not come about by negotiations and support from its neighbors, but not for Palestine. N...
McGehee: Fucking Chamberlain’s: World leaders pressure Turkey to ‘end rift with Israel’
Blog Post, September, 20 2011
Michael McGehee
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Lately, Turkey has been moving away from Israel because the latter refuses to apologize for its illegal raid on a Turkish ship in international waters . . . which resulted in the brutal murders of innocent human rights activists who were trying to...
McGehee: Christopher Hitchens: In Defense of Endless Absurdity
Blog Post, September, 19 2011
Michael McGehee
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Today I was unfortunate enough to read through Christopher Hitchens' latest pro-war diatribe over at Slate: “In Defense of Endless War: As 9/11 showed, civilization has enemies with which peace is neither possible nor desirable.”
McGehee: Why denying Palestinian statehood is outrageous
Blog Post, September, 15 2011
Michael McGehee
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Decades of enduring occupation, aggression, strangulation, racism, and their peace offers being rejected, Palestinians look to bypass their oppressors (US & Israel) and go to the UN to be recognized. For years the US and their Nazionist counterpar...
McGehee: Ed Herman, Propaganda and Libya
Blog Post, September, 03 2011
Michael McGehee
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An "honorable man" who is "not motivated by self-gain and self-empowerment" "has the moral courage" to silence "the guns of brutality for good." Peppered throughout the Propanda System's treatment of NATO's War against Libya are claims about merce...
McGehee: Libya: Another victim of Humanitarian Imperialism
Blog Post, August, 31 2011
Michael McGehee
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International peace and justice is still threatened by the same evil that lurked in the 1930s, and any anti-war activist worth their salt opposes these wars of aggression. The victims don’t have to be saints or adherents of our political ideologie...
McGehee: Terror in Texas
Blog Post, August, 01 2011
Michael McGehee
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Here in Texas there was one terrorist attack (very likely by one or some of the rightwing Christians who were protesting the clinic earlier that day) on a Planned Parenthood office in Mckinney, and a thwarted attack of an AWOL soldier at Ford Hood...
McGehee: Polyculturalism and Norway: Getting Culture Right
Blog Post, July, 27 2011
Michael McGehee
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This blog piece may be a bit cluttered with thoughts and ideas but my ending comment is that unless we reconsider what cultures really are and how they have shaped events, from the past to the present, then, and much like George Santayana said, we...
McGehee: Letter to Star-Telegram
Blog Post, May, 31 2011
Michael McGehee
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Letter to Star-Telegram on sustainable energy
McGehee: More hated than the Taliban
Blog Post, May, 18 2011
Michael McGehee
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I am still trying to make sense of the popular uprising in Afghanistan where following another US attack that killed four civilians—of course US/NATO claims without evidence that they were “insurgents”—an estimate of 1,500 people stormed a NATO ba...
McGehee: President Obama: If the victim is “a wealthy” then “we’ve got problems”
Blog Post, May, 16 2011
Michael McGehee
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Thus President Obama admitted in an interview to 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft on the assassination of Osama bin Laden that the only concern of violating international law is whether the victim is powerful or not.
