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The Polemicist: May 2015
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Saturday, May 2, 2015. The Invisible Woman: Dorothy Thompson Didn't "Quake in Fear". Obama quoted her inspirational words about the exercise of liberty at the White House correspondents dinner. She was an early critic of the Nazis and the first reporter to be expelled by Hitler. She was the second most admired woman in the US after Eleanor Roosevelt. She was the model for the Katharine Hepburn character in Woman of the Year. Posted by The Polemicist. The Imp...
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The Polemicist: July 2015
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Syriza’s Final Charade. In my February post on The SYRIZA Moment. And in a revision of that piece,. I expressed great skepticism about the Syriza leadership’s commitment to the radical change the party promised to enact. Posted by The Polemicist. Featured Post From The Archive:. 8220;Good al-Qaeda’s” Air Force: The United States Is At War With Syria. First, they ignore you; then, they laugh at you; then, they attack you; then, you win.
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The Polemicist: March 2014
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Charge of the Right Brigade:. Ukraine and the Dynamics of Capitalist Insurrection. A treatise on the upheaval in Ukraine, in eight takes. As tensions rose on the streets of the Russian-speaking eastern portion of Ukraine, the response of the new government in the capital on Sunday was not to send troops, but to send rich people. The office of President Oleksandr V. Turchynov announced on Sunday the appointments of two billionai...
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The Polemicist: December 2014
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Monday, December 22, 2014. Goosebumps: A Scary Sony Story. Can we bring the discussion of the Sony hack back to earth? It’s a hack. It is, furthermore, a rather ordinary and foreseeable kind of hack, despite the Sony cybersecurity guy’s insistence. 160; To which one security expert, known as The Grugq, says. In fact, Sony itself. Had been hacked in 2011, forced to shut down its Online Entertainment and PlayStation Networks for weeks. [2]. 160;Fighters o...
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The Polemicist: October 2014
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Monday, October 20, 2014. The Irish Widow and the Liberian Fiancé:. Ebola, CEO Disease, and the Public Good. The Ebola crisis highlights the absurdity of pretending that a private, for-profit health system can do what a real public. Remember the deadly-Ebola-like-virus movie. Where Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo and Morgan Freeman and a whole state-of-the-art medical team, along with a small army (There’s always an army! 8220;Missing from this ‘process...
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The Polemicist: Mad Cow Disease Blights Human Rights Festival
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Saturday, June 13, 2015. Mad Cow Disease Blights Human Rights Festival. Is a funny and serious documentary by Canadian filmmaker Paul Cowan and Palestinian multimedia artist Amer Shomali. It’s showing today at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York. The film is about an episode of creative, constructive, and non-violent resistance in Beit Sahour, a Christian. Town near Bethlehem during the First Intifada. We had a strict directive on ...
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The Polemicist: July 2014
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Monday, July 21, 2014. Getting It: Another American Renounces His Zionism. If this guy can get it, every American can. Lenny Lapon writes about Renouncing my Israeli citizenship. Israel is not becoming an apartheid state—it already is one with separate and unequal laws and policing for its Jewish citizens on one hand and for its non-Jewish, mostly Arab citizens and victims of the occupation on the other hand. Posted by The Polemicist. Monday, July 7, 2014.
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The Polemicist: Socialism Demands Stewardship
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Thursday, June 11, 2015. For Marx at least, don't you know. Posted by The Polemicist. Comments will be lightly moderated, with disfavor for personal attacks and stunning irrelevancies, and deference to the trenchant and amusing. Featured Post From The Archive:. 8220;Good al-Qaeda’s” Air Force: The United States Is At War With Syria. First, they ignore you; then, they laugh at you; then, they attack you; then, you win. Follow and Like on Facebook. Still stuck...
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The Polemicist: August 2014
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Thursday, August 28, 2014. I Know What We Did This Summer, In Gaza. We’re now learning. 8220;Holy bejeezus,” exclaimed retired Lt. Gen. Robert Gard when told the numbers of artillery pieces and rounds fired during the July 21 action. “That rate of fire over that period of time is astonishing. If the figures are even half right, Israel’s response was absolutely disproportionate.” . Posted by The Polemicist. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. A “prison camp....8220;Th...
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The Polemicist: June 2015
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Rants and Reflections on Politics and Culture. Saturday, June 13, 2015. Mad Cow Disease Blights Human Rights Festival. Is a funny and serious documentary by Canadian filmmaker Paul Cowan and Palestinian multimedia artist Amer Shomali. It’s showing today at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York. The film is about an episode of creative, constructive, and non-violent resistance in Beit Sahour, a Christian. Town near Bethlehem during the First Intifada. We had a strict directive on ...
