Addicted to Empire: Bush, Iraq, Oil, Candor, and American Global Dominance I am in the middle of my usual George Orwell-inspired dissection…
Here’s a clever topic for a doctoral dissertation or at least an academic article: "The Recurrent Doctrinal Hitlerization and Rhetorical Nazification of Everybody the…
Among George Orwell’s most enduring essays is his “Politics and the English Language.” Reflecting on the licentious use of the honored western…
This (below) was on the ZNet top page last week and got a fairly wide readership; thought I’d put it up here…
Sparked by recent revelations that Public Broadcasting System (PBS) News hour host Jim Lehrer died more than four years and seven months…
I am speaking tomorrow tonight in Chicago at the In These Times building, second floor, at 2040 N. Milwaukee. I am being…
I just gotĀ an e-mail from an old comrade and occasional ZNet commentator: "All out October 27 to end this fucking war. Please…
The title of this post is from an old U.S. working-class slogan meant to capture the disproportionate legal influence exercised by people…
One of the many disturbing characteristics of dominant American ideology is the way it deletes radical-democratic beliefs from the official memory of…
As some of this blog’s readers may know, I occasionally undertake common-sense left content analysis of America’s corporate-crafted “popular culture.” I also…
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