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The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism“
It is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy …
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Iran’s Revolution and the Global Politics of Resistance
(Image: Melville House Books)The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (Brooklyn, New York: Melville House), 2010; $18.95. …
Pearson’s Peacekeeping
(Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012.) This short book, or elongated essay, concerns the political attributes of one of Canada's more …
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Historical Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers Today
(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …
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The Problem With the Environment Is Not Too Many People
Los Angeles smog. (Photo: Harshil.Shah / Flickr) We've all heard the claim repeatedly: humans pollute, so if we just reduce the number of people - both the …
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High Noon and the West Coast Docks
High Noon is a 1952 morality play about people deciding whether or not to stand up to the forces of corruption and criminality. Scenes from it often come to …
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Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy
(Image: FilmIran / Sony Pictures Classics / Memento Films) It's hard not to view the Oscar for Best Foreign Film awarded to Iran's “A Separation” as at …
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A Propaganda Windfall for the Imperial State: Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence
U.S. soldiers with Second Platoon, Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment fire a 105mm artillery barrage toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border, at Forward …
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A Propaganda Windfall for the Imperial State
Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently …
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The Emperor’s Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …