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In a famous lament written at the height of the Thatcher years, the English musician expressed a desire to live long enough to see the brutal British leader die so he could one day “stand on [her] grave and tramp the dirt down.”
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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By Dina Temple-Raston —
The details about the courts at Guantanamo Bay have remained sketchy. Until now, as a new book explains how a small group of Bush-era political appointees developed a parallel justice system designed to ensure a specific outcome.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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Aging Spanish flamenco artist Manuel Molina gives sensitive, forceful expression to the common things of life: singing with the voice one has, learning trust and mistrust, being hungry, and enjoying the company of friends.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Peter Richardson — “The ways capitalism works and does not work,” Robert McChesney writes in his new book, “determine the role the Internet might play in society. ... The problem is that [Internet] celebrants often believe digital technology has superpowers over political economy.”
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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By Sheerly Avni — How did Gael García Bernal, an outspoken leftist who has played Che Guevara not once, but twice, end up starring in a film that would appear, on the surface at least, to be a celebration of 20th century free-market economics?
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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By Vinca LaFleur —
Many of the adults interviewed by author Emily Bazelon “could access, with riveting clarity, a memory of childhood bullying. … These early experiences of cruelty were transformative, no matter which role you played in the memory reel.”
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Chris Hedges — Nick Turse’s book about the Vietnam War exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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A short film about the Iraq invasion explores how the horror and threat that were forced upon the American people and the world were generated from within the White House, not by Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Robert G. Kaiser —
Good and evil are inseparable in history: “Liberal democracy prospered because of an accommodation with racial humiliation,” writes Ira Katznelson in “Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.”
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Funnyman Jon Stewart is taking a turn at a more serious project than he’s normally accustomed to, one that will require him to be behind the camera instead of in front of it.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Gabriel Thompson —
Nearly 60 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott comes “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the first scholarly biography of the woman who risked much and spoke little.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Hollywood often fails to recognize the truly great talent in its midst.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Carrie Rickey — If an extraterrestrial landed on Earth, “Argo,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Zero Dark Thirty” each would be an excellent introduction to the American character. In the aggregate, they make up a composite portrait of the country.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Gerard DeGroot —
In Max Boot’s magisterial account of insurgency and counterinsurgency across the ages, 12 lessons are derived from 5,000 years of guerrilla warfare.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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