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Free Elections or Business as Usual: Los Angeles News Group or Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce?
May 12, 2014 Corporate rule means the rules apply only to workers, but not to corporate CEOs and the ruling class. Unrestricted corporate power is capitalist totalitarianism. Sure, the Los Angeles News Group can do whatever they damn well please, as long as they do nothing that truly displeases big business and the capitalist parties.
Doug Ireland, Radical Journalist: 1946 – 2013
Oct 30, 2013 Doug Ireland was not only a left-wing critic of sexual and political conformism among sectors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements, but he was also one of the notable public intellectuals of the civil libertarian left.Doug Ireland was not only a left-wing critic of sexual and political conformism, but he was also one of the notable public intellectuals of the civil libertarian left.
Health Care for All: Why We Need a New Prescription
Oct 2, 2013 The right-wing assault on Obamacare is a distraction, but the “progressive” (or rather party line) defense of the Affordable Care Act is also a dead end.The right-wing assault on Obamacare is a distraction, but the “progressive” defense of the Affordable Care Act is also a dead end.
Love It or Leave It?
Aug 25, 2013 Journalism is often a form of priestcraft. If human victims are required on the pyramids of sacrifice, a mob of journalists is always ready to slip on priestly robes while reaching for the knives.
Are Muslims Our Misfortune? Exploring a Loaded Question
Sep 28, 2012 A woman begins covering a provocative subway station poster with spray paint. Another woman demands to know why she is defacing "an approved message," and why she has "a right to violate free speech." The woman replies that she is exercising her own free speech. That’s the short story. Have you already made up your mind about who is right and who is wrong?A woman paints over a subway station poster. When asked why she has "a right to violate free speech," she says she is exercising her own free speech. Who is right and wrong?
We Vote, They Rule: The Case for Voter Rebellion
Sep 17, 2012 Democratic and Republican politicians keep each other in business.
Obama’s Confederate Marriage Policy
Jun 8, 2012 Obama has not changed his long held position that each state still has the right to be an experimental station for or against marital equality, though most states now have some form of legal ban against gay marriage.Obama has not changed his long held position that each state still has the right to be an experimental station for or against marital equality.
Daddy’s Boy: Andrew Sullivan’s Presidential Crush
Jun 5, 2012 The wider political pathology here is authoritarianism, and not simply a garden variety of British royalism.
Obama and Gay Marriage: Thanks for Nothing
May 10, 2012 Anyone who attributes courage to Obama in making this announcement is in a bemused state of mind.
May Day 2012: The Call for a General Strike
Mar 15, 2012 In the winter of 2011, discussion about calling a general strike had already begun within Occupy Los Angeles. At the end of January 2012, in the wake of police raids against Occupy encampments, Occupy Los Angeles issued a call for a May Day general strike, which was quickly endorsed by Occupy Oakland. In the winter of 2011, discussion about calling a general strike had already begun within Occupy Los Angeles.