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How to spot Right-Wing Propaganda: The Abortion Issue
The following image has recently been floating around Facebook, passed to us via a page called “Being Liberal”. Leave it to the liberals to fail to recognize right-wing propaganda when they see it. It appears to be a run-of-the-mill endorsement of the Pro-Choice position on the abortion question. But take a closer look… Here we […]
The End of Euro-Triumphalism
January 23, 2012
by Bruno Fournier It has always been fashionable among certain strata of the American bourgeoisie to pretend to be European. Five or six years ago, perhaps that made sense, in a way. In the early- to mid-2000s, the mantra of Euro-Triumphalism ran supreme, as it seemed that capitalism’s New Jerusalem had departed from stagnant post-9/11 […]
Conversations from Occupy DC on a Thursday Night at Ten
December 12, 2011
Three fellows, ‘Wisconsin’, ‘Pride,’ and Mehmet pass the time on a cold evening. Wisconsin: I been on the road for ten years man. Bin all over the place and I’m out o’ work. I’m from Milwaukee but I looked near everywhere. It’s all the same. Fuckin’ Mexicans man. I even go for the crappy jobs, […]
The New Middle Passage, and the Aristocracy of Citizenship: On Immigration
May 18, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon One of today’s headlines: “513 people found in 2 trucks headed to U.S.” Advanced x-ray technology allowed Mexican authorities in the southern state of Chiapas to detect and stop two truckloads of illegal immigrants headed toward the U.S. The image released, intended to showcase the high-tech savvy behind this “great victory” of […]
The Owl of Minerva flies high over Helsinki
May 8, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon The true irony of the Arab Spring is that, whilst the Arabs openly declare their allegiance to the universal of political democracy, the Europeans move toward the particularity of their right-wing nationalist parties. The logic of Eurocentrism posits “the West” as the progressive democratic universal, and “the East” as the backward theological […]
March 9, 2012
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