25 March 2008
The new imperialists – Ideologies of Empire
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Jim Miles
The new imperialists – Ideologies of Empire
Ed. Colin Mooers.
Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England. 2006.

The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United States is an imperial power as accepted...
10 March 2008
The E.L.F.s are mad! Why aren’t we?
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Jason Miller
Sorry kids, but you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that we are greedy narcissists. We’re dyed in the wool consumers, we worship Mammon, and eliminating the cancer of capitalism is simply out of the question.

What’...
11 February 2008
Hillary's hawks -- How Obama's and Clinton's advisors mirror their stands on the war
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Paul Rogat Loeb, introducing a Stephen Zunes article
In their focus on the electoral horse-race, the media have ignored a key difference between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- the positions of their foreign policy advisors on the Iraq war. As political scientist Stephen Zunes points out...
02 February 2008
There Will Be Blood: The madness of American capitalism...but no method
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Eric Ray
There Will Be Blood
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

There Will Be Blood, the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson and adapted from Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, Oil!, concerns the rise and descent of...
29 January 2008
Juno: The safe, "independent" comedy
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Eric Ray
Juno
Directed by Jason Reitman
written by Diablo Cody

Juno, the much-talked about film about a pregnant teenage hipster, has been praised for being this year’s “little film that could." This film became popular as...
26 January 2008
Meat’s meat...so let’s eat
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Jason Miller
Canine. It’s what’s for dinner.

We pride ourselves on our devotion to the principle of equality here in the United States, so it’s time to put our values where our mouths are, so to speak. Pigs, chickens, cows, and the like...

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