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Why are there so many Ron Paul supporters at Occupy Wall Street?
October 23, 2011
by Bruno Fournier For the past several weeks, the contingent of Ron Paul supporters at the Occupy Wall Street protest has made its presence felt. They form a small minority of the mass at Zuccotti Park, but they have made themselves an extremely visible and vocal minority, and, arguably, they have created the best-organized faction […]
Protest Movement Expands to DC, in spite of Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon October 6, 2011: an interesting day. Today’s events found the American upper-middle-class divided along yet another line: between those who spent the day weeping over the death of Steve Jobs, and those who spent the day extending the Occupy Wall Street movement and its offshoots. Of course, as Selecting Stones has repeatedly […]
The Arab Spring arrives in New York, sort of
September 25, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon You would have to be blind not to see what is happening in the world right now, everywhere, as a whole. All within the past few months, we have the Arab Spring, riots in the U.K., months of student protests in Chile, and mass demonstrations in Greece and Italy, just to name […]
The Owl of Minerva flies high over Wasilla, Alaska
May 26, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon As the most common interpretation of Middle Eastern history goes, the Arab countries’ defeat in the 1967 war with Israel marked the beginning of the end of secular Arab nationalism, and the subsequent rise of radical Islamism. The events of 1967 were a crushing defeat for the secular Arab regimes. For some […]
Why Ron Paul is a crypto-Marxist, even if he doesn’t realize it
March 5, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Everyone knows that Ron Paul always goes around talking about “revolutions.” Revolution this, revolution that. The fact that he talks about revolutions has nothing to do with why, as I will argue, Ron Paul’s thought it closer to Marxism than the illustrious congressman would care to realize. Rather, it is specifically how […]
December 27, 2011
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