1848+: Last and First Men

Published on Monday, August 29, 2011 by The Washington Post 25 Years Later, How ‘Top Gun’ Made America Love War by David Sirota http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/29-5 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates [...]

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http://www.salon.com/books/history/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/08/26/michael_kazin_interview Why won’t America embrace the left? – History What has the left really accomplished over the past two centuries? FDR’s New Deal remains one of the great American success stories. In the ’60s, leftist politics created a massive countercultural movement – and sexual and feminist revolutions. The civil rights movement transformed both American society [...]

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NY Times op-ed August 25, 2011 Dr. King Weeps From His Grave By CORNEL WEST Princeton, N.J. THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years after the historic March on Washington for [...]

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How Obama Lost His Nerve By BORIS KAGARLITSKY http://www.counterpunch.org/kagarlitsky08232011.html The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating has made matters far worse. Party ambitions alone did [...]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/02/sugar-barons-matthew-parker-review The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker – review The cane fields of the West Indies hid a corrupt society Ian Thomson The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011 In Jamaica recently, I was invited to lunch at a Restoration-era plantation house. The sound of crushed ice clinking against glass greeted me, as bow-tied waiters served [...]

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Joining the Cult of the Deniers By DEAN BAKER http://www.counterpunch.org/baker08152011.html A front page story in Sunday’s New York Times gave the country the bad news. President Obama is no longer paying attention to economists and economics in designing economic policy. Instead, he will do what his campaign people tell him will get him re-elected, presumably [...]

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Published on Friday, August 12, 2011 by The Daily Mirror (Colombo, Sri Lanka) Sandcastles of Capitalism Crumbling http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-11 by Ameen Izzadeen Karl Marx must be both happy and sad — happy because capitalism is crumbling and sad because it is not happening the way he thought it would in a revolution of the proletariat. When [...]

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http://www.eonix-papers.com/2011/08/11/some-150-years-ago-the-west-all-but-abandoned-torture-it-has-returned-with-a-vengeance/

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http://www.thenation.com/article/162669/inhuman-bondage-slavery-emancipation-and-human-rights Inhuman Bondage: On Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights Eric Foner | August 10, 2011 This past spring, television viewers in Britain were treated to a six-part series called Civilization about the rise (and possible fall, if China has its way) of the West, hosted by the historian Niall Ferguson. The series offered a highly [...]

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