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The Ruthless Id

May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

NOTE: This is part of a dialog between our VOXPOP editors John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman. For the complete discussion please visit VOXPOP, which, while focusing on the arts, theater, cinema and politics, is also part of Cyrano’s Journal.

I THINK GUY THAT your points about Iron Man are right, and it’s worth taking […]

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Tags: American Politicians · American Way of Life · American brainwash · Bourgeois Democracy · CJO'S OpEds · Capitalism for Dummies · Capitalist Ways · Class Analysis · Class Struggle · Europe Matters · John Steppling · european union

THE WINDS OF THE RIGHT OVER EUROPE

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

By Gaither Stewart

Berlusconi: The Italian Right rides high.
(Rome) I feel sick.
She says I’m sick in the head.
Actually I’m sick in the heart, sick in my viscera. My head reels, I feel chronic vertigo.
She says it’s only paranoia.
I tell her the old Polish joke popular during the military regime. He constantly felt spied on, tailed […]

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Tags: Bourgeois Democracy · CIA Tricks · Capitalist Whores · Class Struggle · Communism · Dispatch from Rome · Europe Matters · France · Gaither Stewart · Ideological Combat · Imperial Policy · Indecent Plutocracy · Radical Right · Reactionaries · Unredeemable Scum · european union

Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French

July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

BY EZRA KLEIN | Dateline: July 19, 2007

Poster for Jacques Tati’s Hulot, the hero of VACANCES DE M. HULOT, who at one time epitomized the French idiosyncratic vacationer | Originally posted at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT

How come Americans don’t take a month off every summer, even though we’d like to? Blame it on individualism.
The most […]

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Tags: American Way of Life · Europe Matters · Toxic Culture

Why We Don’t Vacation Like the French

July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

BY EZRA KLEIN | Dateline: July 19, 2007

Poster for Jacques Tati’s Hulot, the hero of VACANCES DE M. HULOT, who at one time epitomized the French idiosyncratic vacationer | Originally posted at THE AMERICAN PROSPECT

How come Americans don’t take a month off every summer, even though we’d like to? Blame it on individualism.
The most […]

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Tags: American Way of Life · Europe Matters · Toxic Culture

Dispatch from Paris: APARTHEID IN FRANCE

July 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

BY SHAYNE NELSON
Sarkozy gives the victory sign

A LITTLE PREAMBLE
Many Americans are disgusted with the situation in the US under Bush, and I entirely sympathize with those who think the solution is simply to leave the US, something I did about fifty years ago, but that solution doesn’t work any more.

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Tags: Dispatch from Paris · Europe Matters

London ‘Terror’ Car Bombs? Hardly. Two views.

July 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Besides the obvious facts that they can be the product of amateur terrorists, men alienated from the so-called values of the West by the constant murder and thievery practiced by the Anglo-British alliance with some European support throughout the Arab world, there’s also plenty of reason to suspect agents provocateurs or foul play in all […]

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Tags: Corporadoes · Europe Matters · Imperial Policy · State Crimes · The Contemptible Media · Toxic Culture · Zionist Footprints

London ‘Terror’ Car Bombs? Hardly. Two views.

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Besides the obvious facts that they can be the product of amateur terrorists, men alienated from the so-called values of the West by the constant murder and thievery practiced by the Anglo-British alliance with some European support throughout the Arab world, there’s also plenty of reason to suspect agents provocateurs or foul play in all […]

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Tags: Corporadoes · Europe Matters · State Crimes · Toxic Culture