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Life in an Age of Looting: 'Some Will Rob You with a Sixgun and Some with a Fountain Pen (Phil Rockstroh)
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Aug. 12, 2011 (World News Trust) -- As the poor of Britain rise in a fury of inchoate rage and stock exchanges worldwide experience manic upswings and panicked swoons, the financial elite (and their political operatives) are arrayed in a defensive posture, even as they continue their global-wide, full-spectrum offensive vis-à-vie The Shock Doctrine. Concurrently, corporate mass media types fret o ...
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Moving Beyond The Debt Ceiling Canard: Much More Is At Stake (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...“We Would Rather Die In Our Dread” Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- At present, most of us negotiate our days so distracted, disillusioned, dazed, buffeted, bought or marginalized by the ...
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The Arts of Life They Changed Into The Arts Of Death: Bachmann, Palin, Robertson And The Limits Of Logic (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust July 20, 2011 -- As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind’s imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity, while liberals have been shari ...
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On 'The Issue of Character' and Empire (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...June 13, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source… to begin chanting, "Eter ...
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Botox Politics Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: a comb-over treatment for declining empire (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...Apr. 26, 2011 -- Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often possesses little correlation to its interior function, media age journalistic and pol ...
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Interstates and States of Grief (Phil Rockstroh and Angela Tyler-Rockstroh)
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Apr. 14, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- I’m in Atlanta, Georgia, at present, among the scent of pine trees and the reek of southern denial. The moribund economy has thwarted the city’s manic drive to sil ...
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Hiding From Shame, Addicted to Optimism: The Tyranny of Our Collective Comfort Zones (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...Apr. 11, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to bl ...
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The Mark Inside: Joseph Beuys And Coyote Meet 'Humanitarian' Bombing Campaigns (Phil Rockstroh)
Read more...Dedicated to my brave friend and gifted colleague, Joe Bageant, 1946-2011 Mar. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Berlin, Germany, in early 1939, at Friedrichstrasse railway station, shortly ...
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Amnesia as a Way of Life: WikiLeaks Amid the 'Careless People' (Phil Rockstroh)
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Dec. 2, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the U.S. Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until ...
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Public Like A Frog: 'Where All Are Guilty, No One Is' (Phil Rockstroh)
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Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Once again, partisan Democrats are reeling in shock and humiliation, boggled by a familiar scenario -- the sheer velocity of their reversal of fortune an ...
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The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right (Phil Rockstroh)
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Phil Rockstroh -- World News Trust Oct. 7, 2010 -- I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama -- “The Heart of Dixie.” My earlie ...
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