On Liberal Useful Idiots
Why the radical right should not be given a platform, ever.
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Systems of Enclosure
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination involving control, hoarding, concealment, and mystification of information, wealth, and power.
Orientalism: Hate, Lies, and Hegemony
If you go to a bookstore today, right now, you can find a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the fiction section. That’s exactly where it belongs.
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Race and Class, Intertwined
To fully understand the racial wealth gap and wealth inequality in general in the United States, we’ve got to understand how wealth was created.
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The Robots Are Coming and We Are Not Ready
If corporations that have no concern about people or the planet are allowed to take this to its lowest common denominator, nobody will survive on this planet except for the über-wealthy and the robots.
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Politics and Propaganda in Lebanon and Syria
Revolutionary processes are long term, with ups and downs. It’s not the end of this history. We should have hope even in these catastrophic times, and it’s very far from being the end.
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Frauducation and the New Economy
Most people pay for higher education by taking on debt. That means the individual is basically financing—through the publicly-supported federal student aid process—the training that employers will not provide. Workers are feeling that, and they are angry.
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We Are Not Smarter Than How We Feel
All of us are in a collective coming-of-age of the Social Network Internet Machine, and we’re starting to understand that it affects us emotionally, as a global world, together. And it has mood swings.
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Un-shit Your Head
Advertising is fuel for our capitalist economy based on consumption and exponential growth, which obviously is non-sustainable. That can’t help but cause problems for the environment—and is arguably also responsible for resource wars and widening inequality.
Sex Workers and Health Policy Hypocrisy
PEPFAR programming must be preserved—but it must also be reconfigured, with guidance from voices of the subaltern that question neocolonial and paternalistic impositions and counter epistemic violence.
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Walls as Weapons, Property as Death
If people can get beyond the fears and policies that perpetuate this world of security, then maybe we could get beyond that dead-end. Or we’ll just all die at the dead-end together.
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