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Former college professor, native and denizen of New York City. Blogging at www.thepolemicist.net, from a left-socialist perspective. Also publishing on Counterpunch, The Greanville Post, Medium, Dandelion Salad, and other sites around the net. Frequent guest on the radio shows Loud & Clear, The Critical Hour, Political Misfits, and Fault Lines.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Mali Jihadis: The Spawn of Hillary's (And America's) War On Libya The jihadi gangs in Mali are a direct result of American/French/NATO regime change in Libya, executed by the Obama administration, spearheaded by "We came, we saw, he died" Hillary Clinton. No force in the world is more responsible for the rampaging jihadi armies of the world than the United States of America.
Friday, November 20, 2015Mali Jihadis: The Spawn of Hillary's (And America's) War On Libya The jihadi gangs in Mali are a direct result of American/French/NATO regime change in Libya, executed by the Obama administration, spearheaded by "We came, we saw, he died" Hillary Clinton. No force in the world is more responsible for the rampaging jihadi armies of the world than the United States of America.
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
"Good al-Qaeda's" Air Force: The United States Is At War With Syria The United States just went to war with Syria. With the confirmation today that American planes will shoot down Syrian planes attacking USDA-approved "rebels," the United States is now overtly engaged in another criminal attack on a sovereign country that poses no conceivable, let alone actual or imminent, threat to the nation. This is an act of war.
Saturday, August 8, 2015"Good al-Qaeda's" Air Force: The United States Is At War With Syria The United States just went to war with Syria. With the confirmation today that American planes will shoot down Syrian planes attacking USDA-approved "rebels," the United States is now overtly engaged in another criminal attack on a sovereign country that poses no conceivable, let alone actual or imminent, threat to the nation. This is an act of war.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Syriza's Final Charade Syriza has capitulated. The referendum is just another element of that. This is a result that augurs ill for Greece, for Europe, and for any socialist left there might be.
Series: Syriza (2 Articles, 2195 views)
Wednesday, July 1, 2015Syriza's Final Charade Syriza has capitulated. The referendum is just another element of that. This is a result that augurs ill for Greece, for Europe, and for any socialist left there might be.
Series: Syriza (2 Articles, 2195 views)
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
The SYRIZA Moment: A Skeptical Argument The victory of Syriza in Greece is likely to be a historic turning point for Europe and the world, for better or for worse. Is Syriza capable of being the energizing alternative movement that the left wants it to be? Or will it defang left-populism, and leave a vacuum that will be filled by the radical right?
Series: Syriza (2 Articles, 2195 views)
Thursday, February 19, 2015The SYRIZA Moment: A Skeptical Argument The victory of Syriza in Greece is likely to be a historic turning point for Europe and the world, for better or for worse. Is Syriza capable of being the energizing alternative movement that the left wants it to be? Or will it defang left-populism, and leave a vacuum that will be filled by the radical right?
Series: Syriza (2 Articles, 2195 views)
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Goosebumps: A Scary Sony Story "Somebody hacked into the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer network in Hollywood, and released to the public a treasure trove of confidential information. This is an embarrassment.... It may be a violation of intellectual property rights, and personal privacy rights, and common courtesy. It may be condemnable on any of those grounds. But it is not 'terrorism' or 'cyberwar.' It's a hack."
Monday, December 29, 2014Goosebumps: A Scary Sony Story "Somebody hacked into the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer network in Hollywood, and released to the public a treasure trove of confidential information. This is an embarrassment.... It may be a violation of intellectual property rights, and personal privacy rights, and common courtesy. It may be condemnable on any of those grounds. But it is not 'terrorism' or 'cyberwar.' It's a hack."
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Ripley Was Right: Ebola, Science, and the Precautionary Principle Looking at some of that evidence, teasing out the issues of scientific knowledge and ethico-political authority that are raised by the Ebola crisis, and which are confused by the impulse to read them through the lens of American liberal/conservative categories, with which they have nothing to do.
Series: Ebola Crisis (2 Articles, 2023 views)
Saturday, November 8, 2014Ripley Was Right: Ebola, Science, and the Precautionary Principle Looking at some of that evidence, teasing out the issues of scientific knowledge and ethico-political authority that are raised by the Ebola crisis, and which are confused by the impulse to read them through the lens of American liberal/conservative categories, with which they have nothing to do.
Series: Ebola Crisis (2 Articles, 2023 views)
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Friday, November 7, 2014
A Joke In November On the way home from his successful fund-raising meeting, a powerful US Senator, drives his car into a tree and dies. His soul arrives at the Pearly Gates, and is met by St. Peter.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 14971 views)
Friday, November 7, 2014A Joke In November On the way home from his successful fund-raising meeting, a powerful US Senator, drives his car into a tree and dies. His soul arrives at the Pearly Gates, and is met by St. Peter.
Series: Elections (12 Articles, 14971 views)
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Irish Widow and the Liberian Fiance: 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 healthcare system must.
Series: Ebola Crisis (2 Articles, 2023 views)
Sunday, November 2, 2014The Irish Widow and the Liberian Fiance: 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 healthcare system must.
Series: Ebola Crisis (2 Articles, 2023 views)
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Gaza Calling: It's the Colonialism, Stupid! The carnage in Gaza this summer reveals the continuity of the crimes of Israeli colonialism. The fundamental problem is not how many civilians were killed, but the ongoing colonialism-in-progress that necessarily produces these casualties.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Monday, October 13, 2014Gaza Calling: It's the Colonialism, Stupid! The carnage in Gaza this summer reveals the continuity of the crimes of Israeli colonialism. The fundamental problem is not how many civilians were killed, but the ongoing colonialism-in-progress that necessarily produces these casualties.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Israel's "Human Shield" Hypocrisy: The Early Days The "main narrative model that [still] dominates American thinking" about Israel has gone off the rails. It's the imaginary heroic Zionism that Edward Said and others identified with the novel and movie "Exodus" which was "enormously influential in stimulating Zionism and support for Israel in the United States."
Series: Israel and "Human Shields" (3 Articles, 11447 views), Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Wednesday, October 8, 2014Israel's "Human Shield" Hypocrisy: The Early Days The "main narrative model that [still] dominates American thinking" about Israel has gone off the rails. It's the imaginary heroic Zionism that Edward Said and others identified with the novel and movie "Exodus" which was "enormously influential in stimulating Zionism and support for Israel in the United States."
Series: Israel and "Human Shields" (3 Articles, 11447 views), Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
"Holy Bejeezus!": US Officers "Stunned" at Destruction in Gaza " senior U.S. military officers" were "stunned" at the scale of the Israeli army's "indiscriminate" shelling that demolished the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza on July 21st.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014"Holy Bejeezus!": US Officers "Stunned" at Destruction in Gaza " senior U.S. military officers" were "stunned" at the scale of the Israeli army's "indiscriminate" shelling that demolished the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza on July 21st.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Sunday, September 7, 2014
America, ISIS, and Syria: We have to bomb the jihadis in order to save them ISIS is the product of years of American military intervention in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. American military intervention will not solve the jihad problem. It will make it worse. American and its major allies in the region know this, and are OK with it. They prefer ISIS and jihadism to stable, coherent states that can resist their hegemony.
Series: Syria (11 Articles, 14100 views)
Sunday, September 7, 2014America, ISIS, and Syria: We have to bomb the jihadis in order to save them ISIS is the product of years of American military intervention in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. American military intervention will not solve the jihad problem. It will make it worse. American and its major allies in the region know this, and are OK with it. They prefer ISIS and jihadism to stable, coherent states that can resist their hegemony.
Series: Syria (11 Articles, 14100 views)
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Israel's "Human Shield" Hypocrisy The "human shields" argument is what allows Israeli officials, to deliberately and systematically bomb the family homes of suspected militants, killing whole families. It suggests an ethic that supposedly justifies an Israeli offensive which produces 75-80% civilian causalities, 33% of which are children, among the Palestinian population.
Series: Israel and "Human Shields" (3 Articles, 11447 views), Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Sunday, August 3, 2014Israel's "Human Shield" Hypocrisy The "human shields" argument is what allows Israeli officials, to deliberately and systematically bomb the family homes of suspected militants, killing whole families. It suggests an ethic that supposedly justifies an Israeli offensive which produces 75-80% civilian causalities, 33% of which are children, among the Palestinian population.
Series: Israel and "Human Shields" (3 Articles, 11447 views), Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Monday, June 30, 2014
"Without America this cannot happen." Jewish Grandmother Shows the Way A must-see interview for every American--especially liberal Americans, who can be all wrought up about whether and how to criticize Israel. It's way past time cut to the chase: "It is colonialism." If Tzvia can say it, without fear, so can we. Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or Wiccan, no apology needed. Just stand with Tzvia.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Monday, June 30, 2014"Without America this cannot happen." Jewish Grandmother Shows the Way A must-see interview for every American--especially liberal Americans, who can be all wrought up about whether and how to criticize Israel. It's way past time cut to the chase: "It is colonialism." If Tzvia can say it, without fear, so can we. Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or Wiccan, no apology needed. Just stand with Tzvia.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Resurrecting the Lede: The New York Times on the F.C.C. and Net Neutrality The NYT published a misleading and contradictory story about the FCC's Net Neutrality decision, then re-wrote it without acknowledgement.
Sunday, May 18, 2014Resurrecting the Lede: The New York Times on the F.C.C. and Net Neutrality The NYT published a misleading and contradictory story about the FCC's Net Neutrality decision, then re-wrote it without acknowledgement.
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Good for the Gander: Ukraine's Demise Accelerates The US-Obama story of them being "appendages of Russia" is a crock. The rebellion in eastern Ukraine is the result of deep divisions in Ukrainian society that were dramatically exacerbated by the Maidan coup, which was itself supported--and, to a great extent, politically managed--by the US.
Series: Ukraine (4 Articles, 7812 views)
Friday, May 9, 2014Good for the Gander: Ukraine's Demise Accelerates The US-Obama story of them being "appendages of Russia" is a crock. The rebellion in eastern Ukraine is the result of deep divisions in Ukrainian society that were dramatically exacerbated by the Maidan coup, which was itself supported--and, to a great extent, politically managed--by the US.
Series: Ukraine (4 Articles, 7812 views)
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Charge of the Right Brigade: Ukraine and the Dynamics of Capitalist Insurrection It’s quite amusing, until it gets sickening, to watch American leaders--who cling to the notion that a thin, corrupt, disempowering electoral process legitimizes them--embrace the forceful overthrow of a democratically elected leader in a functioning parliamentary democracy while insisting they are doing no such thing.
Series: Ukraine (4 Articles, 7812 views)
Saturday, March 22, 2014Charge of the Right Brigade: Ukraine and the Dynamics of Capitalist Insurrection It’s quite amusing, until it gets sickening, to watch American leaders--who cling to the notion that a thin, corrupt, disempowering electoral process legitimizes them--embrace the forceful overthrow of a democratically elected leader in a functioning parliamentary democracy while insisting they are doing no such thing.
Series: Ukraine (4 Articles, 7812 views)
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Dipsy Doodle: What "Globalization" Has Wrought Globalization's big losers are the sectors of the world's population that had decent incomes, a few notches above average -- the kind of income that allowed for homes and vacations, but not limousines and villas. It's not hard to figure who they are; they're the people on the streets in Athens, Madrid, and Paris, in the state capitol in Wisconsin, and those losing their pensions in Detroit.
Thursday, January 30, 2014Dipsy Doodle: What "Globalization" Has Wrought Globalization's big losers are the sectors of the world's population that had decent incomes, a few notches above average -- the kind of income that allowed for homes and vacations, but not limousines and villas. It's not hard to figure who they are; they're the people on the streets in Athens, Madrid, and Paris, in the state capitol in Wisconsin, and those losing their pensions in Detroit.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Eye of the Beholder: Seeger & Scarlett Seeger's courage and Scarlett's excuses.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Thursday, January 30, 2014Eye of the Beholder: Seeger & Scarlett Seeger's courage and Scarlett's excuses.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Keep on Truckling: Mayor of New York's Job "is to be a defender of Israel" AIPAC's/de Blasio's attempt at keeping the public's eyes out of this meeting is symptomatic of the increasing discomfort that's in the air, even in New York, with this kind of toadying to Israel. What's happening is the kind of disconnect between what can be said to the voters and what must be said to the donors.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
Monday, January 27, 2014Keep on Truckling: Mayor of New York's Job "is to be a defender of Israel" AIPAC's/de Blasio's attempt at keeping the public's eyes out of this meeting is symptomatic of the increasing discomfort that's in the air, even in New York, with this kind of toadying to Israel. What's happening is the kind of disconnect between what can be said to the voters and what must be said to the donors.
Series: Palestine-Israel-Zionism (18 Articles, 27018 views)
