1848+: Last and First Men

(Long article with many links) Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression? Washington’s Blog WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010 The following experts have – at some point during the last 2 years – said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression: • Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke • [...]

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The disposable academic Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time The Economist Dec 16th 2010 ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an [...]

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New Post: Wounded Knee And The Bloody Birth Of Empire http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/wounded-knee-and-the-birth-of-empire/

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Paul Street, “The President and the Climate: Reflections on Progressive Obama Delusion Just what did Barack Obama and his spinners do to the critical faculties of so many leading American progressives? http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/street231210.html

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Re-release of the uncensored, unmodified film. Seems to be remastered as well. Trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/battleshippotemkin/

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http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/blogs/67-a-very-public-sociologist/8726-in-praise-of-the-far-left In Praise of the Far Left Sunday, 12 December 2010 21:59 Written by A very public sociologist

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The Torture Culture 2010 December 16 by Ian Welsh Ok, here’s the deal. Torture does not work to get information. Period. You do not torture people to get information, you torture people to send information, or rather, to send a message. What is that message? We Torture People That’s all the message is.

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Published on Friday, December 17, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Wikileaks Cables Show Why Washington Won’t Allow Democracy in Haiti by Mark Weisbrot http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/17-2 The polarisation of the debate around WikiLeaks is pretty simple, really. Of all the governments in the world, the United States government is the greatest threat to world peace and security today. [...]

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The Left and Obama-Trauma http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content%2Fleft-and-obama-trauma by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “If Obama were not Black, and if his supporters had not been busy getting drunk in a wishing-well, he would have been widely recognized as a stylistically updated Reagan Democrat.”

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Federal Reserve reluctantly shows the smoking gun by Thomas H Greco I have for decades been trying to explain the parasitic nature of the global financial regime and the political order that has become subservient to it. Now, the evidence has become so overwhelmingly obvious that even the most dubious and somnambulistic amongst us cannot [...]

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