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Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of aggression, and with the exception of the Gaza genocide and the Vietnam War the overwhelming majority of the population seldom has any understanding of what their […]
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Condemn all UN Member States: They Spend 100 times More on Militarism than on the Entire UN System
The United Nations, facing a liquidity crisis, has been threatening to lay-off about 20 percent of its estimated 37,000 employees world-wide: a proposed move that has triggered widespread protests from staff unions both in New York and Geneva. Thus starts Thalif Dean’s analysis in a recent IPS article. The UN is in a liquidity crisis!!?? […]
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Partigiani
Paranoid, probably clinically paranoid, the old captain saw partisans everywhere. He called them “partigiani,” the only Italian word he could pronounce properly. As we entered Bolzano the captain spotted a mansion, badly damaged by our artillery during the early morning shelling. He believed it was a potential partigiani hiding place and sent a dozen of […]
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Summer Days and Dark Nights
One never knows where fascism “lite” might appear. We have one bumper sticker for our state which has confounded the foreign tourists along our coast: Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire . . . Qué significa . . . was bedeutet es? These French, Mexican and German tourists asked me last week, What does it mean […]
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The West is in Panic as Israel’s Plan for “Full Control” of Gaza Heralds a New Nakba
[First published by Middle East Eye] If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ever, events have moved on – even if the extreme hunger and malnourishment of the two million people of Gaza have not […]
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Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression
In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to mood-altering drugs, food, alcohol, TV, the Internet, shopping, pornography and sex. Several decades ago, responding to […]
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A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World
It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip sundered and falling over, leaving only a thick butcher’s bill (over 60,000 deaths for starters), extraordinary suffering and humanitarian catastrophe, […]
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Ukraine: We Told You So
I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious, really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case, the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong. […]
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