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Listen up!: February 2011

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Friday, February 25, 2011. Heat in the depth of winter. What is going on in Wisconsin? The media are compressing the reasons for this conflict into an anti-union tinged fight to bring the much-reviled public employees to heel, and that is the view that the conservative right would like us to have. There is a space for groups of people banding together to profitably produce goods or services under the banner of corporations, and there is a similar space for the common man, the citizen, to band together an...

Listen up!: Are we seeing red?

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Thursday, March 29, 2012. Are we seeing red? The irony is that the failure of the capitalist model led to the collapse of the left in Europe. The big winner was the United Left party, a conglomerate of the remnants of the old Communist, and several shades of Anarchist, parties. They gained three parliamentary seats, for a total of five, becoming the pivot that would deny the conservatives their victory and stemmed the tide of reactionary blue over the political map. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

Listen up!: March 2012

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Thursday, March 29, 2012. Are we seeing red? The irony is that the failure of the capitalist model led to the collapse of the left in Europe. The big winner was the United Left party, a conglomerate of the remnants of the old Communist, and several shades of Anarchist, parties. They gained three parliamentary seats, for a total of five, becoming the pivot that would deny the conservatives their victory and stemmed the tide of reactionary blue over the political map. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Let us say...

Listen up!: September 2012

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Saturday, September 29, 2012. Still about civil rights! Monsignor Dolan’s and the rest of the American “prelatariate” position on refusing communion to those of their flock who support gay marriage, does not lack of logical coherence, i.e. the old saw “if you are not with me you are against me.”. And I also learned that the last time the Papacy used the interdict, the weapon that denied the divine right to rule to any head of state who displeased the Church, was in 1657, against the Most Serene Republic ...

Listen up!: What debate?

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Tonight I just cannot bring myself to watch the Presidential debate. It will be painful enough to get tomorrow’s rehash…. Nothing that happens tonight at Hofstra will result in changing my mind about Obama. In any case I have already voted today, and, while in Nevada over the weekend, I will put in some more phoning or canvassing or whatever needs doing. To me he sounds like an “idiot savant”, those people (remember Dustin Hoffman in “Rainman”? Nothing at all: government is sup...