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The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant
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Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2008 We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that some unknown force, perhaps Jesus, or modern science, or some great political leader, or other -- as yet unknown force -- will reverse our national or personal condition... will deliver us from what ever ...
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Roy's People: American Liberalism Needs More Roy Orbison And Less Wonk Strategy (Joe Bageant)
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Joe Bageant Can American liberalism rise from Washington’s two-bed brothel to dance with the ghost of Roy Orbison and eat garden tomatoes? Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 -- 10 a.m. -- ...
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Escape from the Zombie Food Court | Joe Bageant
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Joe with BingoThe high technological imprisonment of our consciousness has been fairly recent. There are still those among us who remember when it was not so entrapped. A few of us still know what it ...
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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)
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Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat Larr ...
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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant
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Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...
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Live from Planet Norte | Joe Bageant
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Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder Joe Bageant -- World News Trust June 27, 2010 WINCHESTER, Va. -- Starting with the Homeland Security probe at Washington's Reagan Airport, arrival b ...
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America: Y Ur Peeps B So Dum? -- Ignorance And Courage In The Age Of Lady Gaga (Joe Bageant)
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Joe Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 7, 2010 -- AJIJIC, Jalisco, Mexico -- If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions ...
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Documentary Film With Joe Bageant Opens (Ken Smith)
Read more...Aug. 3, 2011 (JoeBagean.com) -- Kingdom of Survival, a documentary film in which Joe Bageant is a focal point, will premier at the World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde) in Montreal, Augus ...
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Rainbow Pie -- Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation (Morris Berman)
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May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Given how much we had in common, it’s perhaps a bit odd that Joe Bageant (1946-2011) and I never met (although I think we did correspond at one point). He ...
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Lost in the American Undertow (Joe Bageant)
Read more...Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2011 -- The United States has always maintained a white underclass — citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic ...
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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011
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Mar. 27, 2011 -- (JoeBageant.com) -- After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, ...
