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Capitalism Makes Me Sick
By Ina P.Capitalism makes me sick. I’m not just talking about moral revulsion, nor speaking metaphorically: I am actually sick.
In Conversation
ZELIG OF THE LEFT:
BILL ZIMMERMAN with Lawrence Weschler
“One thing I learned in the early ’60s—and it’s very pertinent to what is going on now—is how it’s always difficult to see over the horizon, to see the consequences of present actions,“ says Zimmerman.
Docs In Sight
Filming Occupy Wall Street
By Williams ColeWhile most politicians wait it out and much of the media flutters about, the Occupy Wall Street movement keeps generating heat even as the weather gets colder.
Arthur Phillips Stole My Bike
By John Reed7:30 a.m. The alarm. Meh meh. Clock radio, but I’m too deaf for music to wake me up; I lost my hearing, or made it go away faster, with 20 years of Judo. I reset the alarm for 7:45 and lie there, in a sand of bliss, knowing that the tide of a long day has just rolled in.
Moral Memory
By Allen WilcoxWe are living in the end times, according to journalist and moral thinker Chris Hedges. We are living in the end times, if the end times mean the subsumption of moral life into corporate life.
After the Revolutions
By Michael TerryIn a recent post on his website, author Corey Robin claimed that in writing The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, his goal was to “understand the right—not to criticize it or show why it’s wrong, but to get inside its head, to examine its leading ideas, and bring its sense and sensibility into focus.”
Coup D'Medias
By Pehr EnglenOn the 23rd of February 1981, a group of civil guards burst into the Spanish parliament in midsession. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Tejero, they took the parliamentarians hostage under gunpoint.
What Mexico Doesn't Need
By Andrew G. WoodIn his latest work, Mañana Forever?, Castañeda wonders how Mexico will solve some of its longstanding financial and social problems.
Back to Square One
By Sara VersluisThe students who attend the International High School at Prospect Heights walk through hallways originally constructed in the 1920s, when the New York City Board of Education erected a colossal 3,500-seat school in view of the Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens.
