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Street: The Manipulation of Populism
Feb 25, 2012
Ironically, Obama now gets to channel the populist Occupy spirit in fashioning his campaign for re-election against (in all likelihood) the spectacularly wealthy Mitt Romney
Swanson: 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
Feb 22, 2012
Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's a war crime. War crimes must be punished
Schechter: Drowning On A Road To Nowhere
Feb 20, 2012
If there was ever a time for progressives to unite around some coherent ten point plan that can be used to broaden the movement for change, this is it
Schechter: Special Ops Defines War
Feb 15, 2012
A commitment to more special forces is a commitment to more imperial intervention, and specialized units operating above the law and beyond the law
Schechter: Grammys Backtracking On Diversity
Feb 11, 2012
The Grammy Award's have dropped 31 categories of music, including those that most appeal to minorities
Street: Super Bowl Reflections
Feb 05, 2012
Why should the parasitic Fat Cats get to celebrate, preen, and gorge themselves without disruption
Street: Reflections on the Quadrennial Extravaganza
Jan 25, 2012
What you do or don’t do on Election Day is a tiny matter compared to what we can and must do together to build left movement capacity and presence
Swanson: Why Not Attack Iran?
Jan 07, 2012
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum
Shiva: No Therapy in Retail
Jan 05, 2012
India’s future cannot be “retail dictatorship” and “seed dictatorship”
Street: Fascist America? Not Exactly
Jan 04, 2012
The American elite already gets the basic regressive and authoritarian outcomes of fascism without having to unleash the full brutality of fascist dictatorship
Street: Tea Party Republicans are Petit-Bourgeois Militarists
Dec 27, 2011
The first error was to think that many if not most of the Tea Party supporters came largely from the working class progressive base
Street: “The Price is Worth It”
Dec 23, 2011
Before their deaths can be called “worth it” in some venues, most of America’s officially unworthy victims are sent down Orwell’s memory hole
Street: Obama’s Sinister Silence
Dec 21, 2011
Is Obama aware that his silence on the great popular, grassroots struggles for change sends a deafening message of corporatist, fake-progressive hypocrisy
Street: A Happiness That Harms
Dec 16, 2011
There is, of course, nothing new about the false and noxious notion that the rich have “earned” their wealth through merit
Street: Urban Neoliberal Racism, Poverty, and Repression of Occupy
Dec 02, 2011
Four of every ten black Americans experienced unemployment during the 2008-09 Great Recession
Schechter: OWS All Over the Media: For How Long?
Nov 29, 2011
Occupy Wall Street is not about camping, it’s about crusading for justice
Street: Repressing Occupy as Corporate Welfare
Nov 28, 2011
One can only guess at the taxpayer expensive involved in the quasi-totalitarian crackdown conducted in the name of public safety
Street: A Banker on the Danger of Leisure
Nov 24, 2011
Sometimes the most chilling authoritarian thoughts take a seemingly innocent form
Street: The Empire Strikes Back in Futility
Nov 22, 2011
Occupy has changed the air of the nation’s political discourse
Feb 26, 2012
Eyes only: from the department of pre-war planning and threat exaggeration