Comrade Lenin of Russia Rises in the marble tomb On guard with the fighters forever - The world is our room! - Langston Hughes, Ballad of Lenin Lenin put American Communism on a hard scientific footing. Daniel Mason reports that "The interplay between Lenin and the United States was very extensive. Lenin had learned the English language early in his career and became an avid student of US economics, politics, education and social life." ...
By Andrew Kreig Justice Integrity Project President-Elect Obama’s advisors feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama’s top transition advisors. University of California at Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley, ...
I wrote this prose poem as a kind of overview of ten years of thinking about September 11, 2001, now that I have the hindsight of living overseas. The piece, published at CounterPunch, compares the violence of that day with the violence directed at the 14-block neighborhood referred to as "Radio Row", which was erased in order to build the Twin Towers. Article link: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/...zero%E2%80%9D/
I wrote this article based on work done in a design studio here in Beirut called "Mediating the Real World". We chose as a project advocating for the boycott of the London Olympics. Based on our research, and what I've found in other Olympic cities, I am surprised at the lack of critical analysis of what role the Olympic Games had in the most recent London riots which, as we are seeing now, are allowing the government to complete their plan to destroy low-income parts of the city in the ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ke04264001.jpg Metacomet (known to the Puritan colonists by his adopted name "King Phillip") was a chief of the Wampanoag Indians in modern-day Massachusetts. When the Puritans started to push westward, he sough to live in harmony with them, at first. This turned out to be a fatal mistake. The English ...
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