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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 3:51:44 PM
Article : "A Journey To The End Of Empire: It is always darkest right b"
Vale of soul making
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 3:20:25 PM
Article : "Occupying Libido: Negotiating a landscape of hypocrisy and h"
Emblem of Empire
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 1:59:06 AM
Article : "Secrets of Empire & Self-Deceptions Of Partisans: Yet a howl"
Bush 2.0
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 6:09:12 PM
Article : "Liberating America's Worldview"
It a mystery
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:17:53 PM
Article : "Liberating America's Worldview"
What you are qualified for Robert
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:46:47 PM
Article : "Liberating America's Worldview"
Hey, Robert
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 2:54:26 PM
Article : "Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Bec"
Good Germans
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 2:57:08 PM
Article : ""By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Verities and Dirty H"
What capitalism levels, in life and in dreams
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 12:58:25 PM
Article : "Amid The Architecture Of Declining Capitalism: Memes, Death "
Keyboard BraveHearts
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 5:28:02 PM
Article : ""The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You A"
We must not let up
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 5:26:30 PM
Article : "The Police State Makes Its Move: Retaining one's humanity in"
Legions have awakened
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 3:13:44 PM
Article : "Dehumanizing Late-Stage Capitalism"
John Donne and Aldoux Huxley on the subject
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 6:22:23 PM
Article : "We Shall Not Be Moved: Police Repression, Official Mendacity"
The true nature of a nation is revealed...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 4:23:31 PM
Article : "Punching a Hole in Bubbles of Denial and Addiction: Late Cap"
In which direction does your soul wend?
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 5:21:21 PM
Article : "Occupying The Heart Of The Beast: Observations, Impressions "
Mr. President, "tear down this wall."
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12:30:20 AM
Article : "The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing"
"Cleansing"
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:43:55 PM
Article : "The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing"
"What if" you stopped the hysterical projections?
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:55:30 PM
Article : "The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing"
Yes, the Purtian part is...
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 4:19:12 PM
Article : "The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing"
Racism? Come now.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 12:38:48 PM
Article : "The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing"
The Puritan imagination rages at its own withered eros
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 8:17:38 PM
Article : "A Labor Day Tale Of Three Cities: Pittsburgh, Birmingham and"
The muscle and sinew of Machine Age America transformed
Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 12:35:12 AM
Article : "Idiot Wind: The Eternal Return Of The Politics Of The 1970s"
Americans loved their man, Dick Nixon
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 4:23:16 PM
Article : "Life in an Age of Looting: "Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun "
Here's the problem
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 9:30:06 PM
Article : "Life in an Age of Looting: "Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun "
The unravelling of neoliberal empire
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:59:42 AM
Article : ""The Arts Of Life They Changed Into The Arts Of Death:" Bach"
Descent into the underworld...our dark, hidden side
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 10:01:47 PM
Article : "If Borders Books Shuts Down Will They Blame Obama?"
Indeed, you're missing something
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 2:50:57 PM
Article : "If Borders Books Shuts Down Will They Blame Obama?"
Both Obama and Borders are models of corporate emptiness
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 12:56:31 PM
Poll : "Poll: Michele Bachman: Flake, Joke, or To Be Taken Seriously"
Not frightened at all
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 11:37:45 AM
Article : "On "The Issue Of Character" And Empire"
The present order is maintained by state-sanctified homicid
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 11:21:45 AM
Article : "Barack Obama: The Return of the Cool"
There is nothing cool about an imperial presidency
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 1:29:15 AM
Article : "The Politics Of Revenge And Submission: "When the individual"
Struggling against the odds
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12:51:44 PM
Article : "Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: a comb-o"
Being service to the duopolistic elite
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 7:25:09 AM
Article : "Interstates And States of Grief"
Regarding the video
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 12:02:43 AM
Article : "Why Americans Are So Easily Conned"
marginalized, demonized, even threatened
Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 4:04:34 PM
Article : "The Mark Inside: Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet "Humanitarian""
Working with material at hand
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 5:49:24 PM
Article : "How Angry Are You? Time To Channel and Say It Smartly"
Klepocrats will be increasingly emboldened
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 2:04:06 PM
Article : "Reflections on Liberal Zionism"
The notion of "Liberal Zionism" is a misnomer
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:40:03 AM
Podcast : "Podcast: Psychiatrist Lewis Mehl Madrona on the Tragedy in T"
A psychiatric perspective sans soul
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 6:59:49 AM
Article : "Amnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The "Careless Peopl"
Buried lessons of history
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 11:58:14 AM
Quicklink : "Keith Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC"
Talented guy, but not a true lefty progressive
Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 12:29:34 PM
Article : "Cash and Carry: The Business of American Politics and the Po"
The Glengarry Glen Ross Congress
Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 1:05:10 PM
Article : "A Boot to the Head ...from Michael Moore"
The corporate boot/The Democrats' clown shoes
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 5:44:39 PM
Article : "This New 1994 Could Have Been 1974"
Instead of 1974
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 11:55:38 AM
Podcast : "Podcast: Markos Moulitsas, founder, Dailykos.com author, Ame"
The mindscape of the faux progressive side of the internet
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 11:18:52 AM
Article : "Will Sanity Be Restored and Fear Be Kept Alive?"
His salary depends upon his not understanding it
Monday, October 4, 2010 at 12:18:19 AM
Article : "Economic Inequity, Manufactured Populism, and the Bigot-Whis"
Two legged car alarms
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 8:05:52 PM
Article : "The "Enthusiasm Gap" Reflects a Spiritual Reality"
Banished from mainstream narrative
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 3:16:56 PM
Article : "The "Enthusiasm Gap" Reflects a Spiritual Reality"
Nothing evil about contemporary fundamentalist Christianity
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 2:11:54 PM
Article : "The "Enthusiasm Gap" Reflects a Spiritual Reality"
A distinction between spirit and soul
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 12:58:01 AM
Article : "Blame conservatives and Obama, not all the Dems"
Rock Bottom
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 5:55:10 PM
Article : "Blame conservatives and Obama, not all the Dems"
Regarding dis-empowering the oligarchs by voting
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 5:45:19 PM
Article : "Obama Scapegoats His Own Voters"
This is the problem
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 6:12:10 PM
Poll : "Poll: Is OpEdNews Too Tough on Obama and the Democrats?"
Appropriating a term from recent history
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 6:54:07 PM
Article : "Triumph of the Money Party!!! Warren's role downgraded, repo"
The one and only party in the US
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 8:53:39 PM
Article : "The Fourth Turning - Skies Darkening"
Paradigm shift or perish
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 1:39:44 PM
Article : "Hell is Other People-- or the Other Party; A Dip into hell w"
Regarding the poetic decent into the underworld
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 4:46:33 AM
Article : "Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone: The Fantasy of the Pr"
Powerlessness
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 12:31:26 AM
Article : "Hanging A Hammock Between Death And The Abyss: A Götterdäm"
The Gods are ruthless to the inflated
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 12:56:35 AM
Article : "A Heap Of Broken Images: Social media and the architecture o"
The dayroom is nice too
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10:17:45 PM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
E.B. White
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 9:56:51 PM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
Don,
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 11:38:18 AM
Article : "A Heap Of Broken Images: Social media and the architecture o"
"one cannot get enough of what one doesn't need"
Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 7:12:33 PM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
You nailed it, Pat
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 5:44:41 PM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
Yes, Partricia
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 12:48:50 PM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
I learned a long time ago
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 11:28:18 AM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
More Rilke
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 10:01:42 AM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
grow a sense of humor
Friday, July 2, 2010 at 4:05:06 AM
Article : "A Day In A Dying Empire: An intimate fable on current events"
Civilization versus culture
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 2:51:29 PM
Article : "The Dark Shadow of Corporations"
Business types and archetypes
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 6:13:30 PM
Article : "Was it a Non-Violent Flotilla or Intentionally Violent, Even"
Regarding provocations
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 8:50:02 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Get a hold of yourself, ardee
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 12:19:41 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Question:
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 4:05:55 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Thanks Professor,
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 2:43:52 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
ardee D.
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 11:02:12 AM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Wrong, what is sad is:
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 7:47:38 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Yes, it is strange ...
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 6:04:18 PM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
So let me get this straight:
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9:11:55 AM
Article : "A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you cal"
Everybody isn't wrong
Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 1:33:38 PM
Article : "Gilded Age Crime: Poor Go Homeless, Wealthy Get Bailouts"
Excellent piece, Brett, but
Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 11:19:29 PM
Article : "Bush and the Nazis"
Scott
Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 1:30:10 PM
Article : "What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters"
Sorry for the confusion
Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 12:59:01 PM
Article : "What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters"
To paraphrase (and with apologies to) Bob Dylan,
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 8:36:36 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
Childhood's end
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 12:44:33 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
You act is if
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 12:32:59 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
There is some cognitive dissonance here
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 7:17:07 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
Oh boo-boo
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 3:41:00 PM
Article : "Ideologues or Swindlers? The Media's Subliminal Message"
Regarding your comments: Huh, back at you
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 3:37:47 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
Huh, back at you
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:41:11 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
That's OK, Pete,
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:07:36 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
Have to disagree here, though:
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 5:06:57 PM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
I hope you're wrong, but
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 10:43:34 AM
Article : "Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democra"
Sadly, a agree:
Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 4:55:44 PM
Article : "Can't You See? Crucial Differences Too Many on the Left Seem"
A difference and a distinction
Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 5:34:26 PM
Article : "And the Empire Mourned....Dissecting the Big Lie"
Collective denial
Friday, December 22, 2006 at 6:27:46 AM
Article : "Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a"
Next step on the block
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:23:11 PM
Article : "Reason and Emotion in the Anti-Bushite Movement, Or, Hey Dem"
I not so sure I'm projecting
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:04:21 PM
Article : "Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a"
How presumptuous of you
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 4:09:03 PM
Article : "Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a"
Learning to listen
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 2:02:27 PM
Article : "Reason and Emotion in the Anti-Bushite Movement, Or, Hey Dem"
Don't buy it
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 1:14:44 PM
Article : "Reason and Emotion in the Anti-Bushite Movement, Or, Hey Dem"
telescopic compassion
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