The Globalization of Hollow Politics
The emptying of content in political discourse in an age as precarious and volatile as ours will have very dangerous consequences. The longer the political
The emptying of content in political discourse in an age as precarious and volatile as ours will have very dangerous consequences. The longer the political
There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be
…Our religious and secular fundamentalists all peddle the same racist filth and intolerance that infected Breivik. This filth has poisoned and degraded our civil discourse.
American citizens can “legally” be assassinated. Illegal abductions, known euphemistically as “extraordinary rendition,” are a staple of the war on terror. We Americans have rewritten our
The moral philosopher Cornel West, if Barack Obama’s ascent to power was a morality play, would be the voice of conscience. Rahm Emanuel, a cynical
“Imagine,” said a public school teacher in New York City, who asked that I not use his name, “going to work each day knowing a
The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and
Empire communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life
The young soldiers and Marines do not plan or organize the war. They do not seek to justify it or explain its causes. They are
We have a remarkable ability to create our own monsters. A few decades of meddling in the Middle East with our Israeli doppelgänger and we
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