By Joe Bageant According to cynics, you know you’re a redneck when you gotta use a padlock to lock your car door. The “backcountry” culture that Bageant dissects to perfection is as often as not one of the most victimized cultures in the union, as “working poor” defines many in their ranks, right alongside Black [...]
By Joe Bageant Russell and Brooks belt one out for the Grand Ole Opry fans, great temple of redneck muddled consciousness, but also maudlin hope about a reality that doesn’t exist. IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE how American capitalism can sell even our own identities back to us in such tantalizing fashion as to make [...]
sadi ranson-polizzotti DAYS ALL BLEND TOGETHER WHEN I AM ALONE IN THE HOUSE. I couldn’t tell you if it’s Wednesday or Thursday. I woke up the other morning and was convinced that it is Fall when it is actually early Summer. They say that losing sense of space and time is one of the first [...]
BY CARL E. GUNTHER BOOK REVIEWS The Gujarat Genocide, by Garda Ghista Paperback: 188 pages Publisher: AuthorHouse (November 13, 2006) PRECIS: In February, 2002, Hindu extreme right-wing religious organizations, under the umbrella of the Sangh Parivar, organized and carried out a genocidal ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the state of Gujarat, in western India. Between [...]
BY PATRICE GREANVILLE CINEMA REVIEWS || A CLASSIC REMEMBERED Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) Starring: Jose Ferrer (Cyrano) & Mala Powers (Roxane), with William Prince, as Christian. Produced by: Stanley Kramer Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin Original story by: Edmond Rostand (1897) Directed by: Michael Gordon Screenplay by: Carl Foreman IF THERE’S ONE THING THAT HAS ME [...]
His hot air could keep America warm this winter. By Larry Pinkney, Black Commentator Editorial Board What better way to manipulate the masses of people than to propagate lies disguised as truth, and to say nothing of substance in the name of being crystal clear. This is the double-speak by America’s latest well known cynical [...]
By GARY CORSERI Reporting from Purgatory In an unprecedented psy-ops attack, the Iranian terrorist organization, known euphemistically as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, sent speedboats after a fleet of U.S. naval craft in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. (See map.) A heavily accented voice (something apparently pasted together from old Bela Lugosi [...]
By Gaither Stewart Voting during the 2005 elections. All in all, probably a lot cleaner balloting than here these days. Iran is both a great and ancient civilization, and a magnificent modern nation in ways that would astonish most Americans, but if the machinations of the filthy Neocon Washington cabal go according to plan, it [...]
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ED DUVIN
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