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Life and Death in an Era of Refined Illusions
by Anthony Burton In seventeenth-century England, a reactionary mouthpiece for the defeated feudal aristocracy – whose decay as a class was only inevitable within the boundaries set by the natural laws of social development – bellowed out desperately in the midst of the ruthless bloodletting that accompanied the basic dialectic of material progress towards capitalism […]
Wall Street Has Betrayed Everything Existing, Except Westboro Baptist Church
November 7, 2011
by Anthony Burton It is the most ancient and essential premise of patriarchy, according to the leading school of thought on the subject, that the first kings were fathers of families, from which it somehow follows that the first cause of the fall of Adam, or the original sin, was the desire for liberty. Not […]
Wall Street Can’t Be Good, Must Be Spanked
October 5, 2011
by Anthony Burton Scarcely twenty years have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, and yet the frightened bourgeoisie is still continuing to search for an explanation behind the Arab Spring, as if the sudden collapse of a few puppet regimes is somehow unprecedented, and as if all this spontaneous revolutionary activity were not […]
The Upper-Middle-Class character of Occupy Wall Street, an update
October 3, 2011
Occupy Wall Street remains overwhelmingly a movement representing the upper-middle-class. It is no mere coincidence that the free food handed out to the protesters is organic and vegan, and, although all sorts of people strive to eat healthy, in our day and age, the fetish of the organic tomato is primarily the reserve of the […]
You are not the 99%: An update on Occupy Wall Street
October 2, 2011
by Bruno Fournier So it seems, the media blackout on the Occupy Wall Street movement may be coming to an end. Yesterday, the arrest of 700 protesters marching across the Brooklyn Bridge finally put the movement on the website of the New York Times. Most other scant media coverage continues to focus on the movement’s […]
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 […]
Wall Street, the Holy of Holies
September 9, 2011
Today, in remembrance of the tragedy of 9/11, a woman from the Marine Corps, seated at the right hand of Hillary Clinton, sang “God Bless America” at the New York Stock Exchange. The perfect alliance: Military, State, God, and Stock Exchange In dissolving the Father, we also dissolve the Son, only to discover that the […]
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 […]
March 30, 2012
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