whattheheck and wolf (you guys are still here?): I don't think it's a cop-out at all to give black Americans a unique place in our history. Furthermore, it's folly to lump all black Americans into the same level of experience. Mr. Muwakkil comes from one foreign to those street dwellers who produce the majority of hip-hop, yet holds the interesting perspective of one who has lived through some of the last worst moments of institutionalized US racial policy. I think his perspective holds more weight than your own, based on his relevant experience and his informed study. Is it not easy …
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Vanella - I think you have it right on both counts. Oaxaca is an extremely poor and oppressed state. Over 70% of the citizenry is indigenous, which in Mexico means dirt poor. The governor and staff are extraordinarily corrupt, and the military acts as a murderous and suppressive force, particularly post-Zapatista uprising, circa 1994. Those who organize resistance in southern Mexico are among the bravest people you'll ever meet. Disappearances of protest leadership are common. In short, we don't know how good we have it. Or, we do know, and don't feel like risking it anytime soon. I wonder, though: if …
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I have heard Lamont's win described by some in the MSM as a 'Pyrrhic victory' for the Democrats, as it will splinter the party and thrust it into the chaotic abyss that only southern Mediterranean countries know so well. This is entirely plausible. I could definitely forsee dangerous instability from a battle royal between young-turk firebrands fighting for revolution against the old Democratic guard. Like the DLC crowd, I too know that corporate donations would be drastically cut for a renegade party hell-bent on sustainable working-class conditions and enlightened self-interest globally, and it would not be pretty. The donations requested from …
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Wasn't usury a sin against Christendom once upon a time? How do Republicans make for this distinction?
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To those that find this story, as one put it, outrageous: I would argue that the work of Colbert and Stewart is a formidable weapon in progressive movement, and thus worthy of investigation by a progressive magazine. If media analysis is a relevant study in the apparatus which largely determines popular will, which then shapes policy in a republic, than a branch of the media which actually acts to subvert that same media, it may behoove us to learn what effects this could have on popular will, and in turn on policy. Many bloggers pointed to Colbert's roast of GWB as …
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