Speech I gave in Solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Iowa City, IA on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdCKXne-8s
Iowa City, IA, October 14, 2011. The formerly left Christopher Hitchens once usefully described “the essence of American politics” as “the manipulation…
The mostly youthful Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists camped out in Zucotti Park in New York City’s financial district (and in other…
The young people camped out near Wall Street in lower Manhattan to protest the power of the financial elite are an easy…
“The bourgeoisie,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in 1848, in one of many eloquent passages to flow from their pens, “has…
What a difference four years have made in Iowa. Around this time in 2007, the state’s Democratic base was all abuzz. With…
Ever since my latest book Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Paradigm, 2011, co-authored with…
A recent broadcast on the “Public” Broadcasting System’s “News Hour” reported some chilling news on American life. The top 20 percent of…
Sarah Palin: “To Kill Corporate Capitalism” Comrades, what are we supposed to make of the fact that the fading presidential candidate…
We are Good “We must never forget.” So proclaims a solemn parade of United States politicians, pundits, and propagandists preparing for…
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