In These Times

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• • 17 Apr 09
  • 5:45 am

  It's no more glamorized than Tom Clancy or Rambo films; ideology is violent, and that's all there is to it. Do you REALLY think that ANYBODY is going to critically parse as plain and blunt a statement as "This fascist state means to kill us all… Violence is the only answer to violence"?! For cryin' out loud, woman...! In this US environment? The US has zero understanding of what a fascist state really is, it is so blind and mediated. Go ahead and deconstruct at Columbia all you feel you need to; this film hits with semiotic terseness, and reaches the …

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• • 18 Apr 08
  • 12:02 pm

  Boo hiss. How is this article any different than the hue-and-cries of sex scandals?! This is a divisive article. Especially so given that ITT can't seem to muster much coverage of labor organizing as it is. It only serves to highlight and underline one meme: "unions are unstable." So what if there is this kind of dispute; there was no bloodshed, just rubber-necking.

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• • 18 Apr 08
  • 11:53 am

  "Nice to see an article about a country that has really taken some huge missteps, that is not the US." -- [Posted by wolf on Apr 17, 2008] Well, it IS the US; its exact mirror - reversed image and all. Managed democracy says it all.

  Posted to Putin Is Gone! Long Rule Putin!