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Here (below) is a piece I did for an excellent left internet newsletter — Dissident Voice. It’s about class, race, capitalism, oil,…
Below, I have pasted in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) press release from nearly a month ago. It reports the findings…
This article I did (see below) went up on the ZNet top page last week. I thought I’d give people a chance…
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Scrambling to prepare some formal reflections on my original academic field, United States History, I recently found my notes from a 20th…
Notes from 9/11 conspiracy theorist Victor Wood and (perhaps) “Dmx” and (possibly) some of their fellow 9/11 conspiracy theorists: 1. “Why am…
A United States History professor I know tells me an interesting story from late March of 2003. “How many of you,” she…
How about that wild and wacky world capitalist system? The United States (U.S.) is clearly the worldĆ¢€ā¢s Ć¢€ÅhegemonicĆ¢€Ā military power. The U.S.…
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