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Hezbollah’s big challenge By Pepe Escobar BEIRUT – “You are in heaven and those who killed you will go to hell,” reads a poster in a middle-class, predominantly Sunni neighborhood in north Beirut. Those depicted in heaven include Saddam Hussein, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri (killed in a car bombing [...]

Don Imus and Ron Jeremy Racy Sex, Sexy Racism By GAIL DINES So Don Imus finally pushed the envelope too far by calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”. This lethal combination of racism and sexism galvanized African-American and women’s groups, media watch-dog organizations and members of the public into action. His fate [...]

…here is Black Agenda Report’s Richard Muhammad Enabling Imus American Life – Racism & White Privilege Wednesday, 11 April 2007 by Richard Muhammad In a horrific display of racist solidarity, white media men have circled their wagons around Don Imus, the career broadcast bigot who called the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy [...]

[Hat tip to Lydia for this. Communications and the means of production of communications are in a completely recursive relation with every other aspect of every oppressive system. Funny how the whole Imus thing is morphing. More contradictions than you can shake a stick at. Defense of the team members as "not ho's" because they [...]

I just want to link one of the pieces memorializing Kurt Vonnegut. During my first break in service, from 1973-77, I was one of the baby-boomers — albeit one of the damaged goods coming back from Vietnam — who waited for more… and more… Vonnegut. I have to credit him as one of those who [...]

Not his words, mine. A suicide bombing in the Parliamentary cafeteria of the Green Zone means, basically, the most secure perimeter in Iraq was penetrated. That is a shift. Quantum. The United States military, oxidized by four years of occupation, has crossed the event horizon for a tactical defeat in Iraq, more humiliating perhaps than [...]

Stan here. I’ve been AWOL at Insurgent American and

Hipster-ism. n. 1. A largely generational and metropolitan-centered identity-set whose discourse is typified by irony and fixation with the superficial (clothes, music, hairstyle of an “indie / alternative” variety,) which is awash in self-serving cynicism (e.g. we can’t change anything, so we might as well just get drunk and mock those why try to) and [...]