Tag: american empire

• Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime

  Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977 […]

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  September 13, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Current Events, Debt, Economics, History, Politics

  american empire, Bill Black, Black Agenda Report, Bob Pollin, Book Reviews, Brown University, Cambridge, Capitalism, Cold War, corporate welfare, Counterpunch, Economics, Global Fracture, Harvard University, History, Imperialism, Jedediah Purdy, Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, michael hudson, Mission of Burma, MIT, Nick Drake, Paul Krugman, Paul Volcker, Superimperialism, Syriza, Television Personalities, The Bubble & Beyond, The Fall, The Last Poets, The New York Times, The Real News Network, UMKC, Vijay Prashad, Washington Consensus, Yanis Varoufakis

• Dirty Harry Does Diversity.2: Indicting Invictus

  (Like the original Magnum Force, this post is a sequel to the first Dirty Harry.) Of all of Clint Eastwood’s “Sympathy for the Other” movies, Invictus was the most popular in the Land of the Liberals.  J. Edgar (gays), Million Dollar Baby (women), and Gran Torino (SE Asians) all did well but received more criticism than […]

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  March 22, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History

  A.O. Scott, Africa, american empire, ANC, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clint Eastwood, Economics, Films, IMF, Invictus, Irvin Jim, Left media, Matt Damon, Nelson Mandela, Neoliberalism, NUMSA, Pambazuka News, Patrick Bond, Paul Jay, Politics, profit margins, Race, Selma, The New York Times, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus

• Top 40 over 40.18: Peter Hughes and Dipa Ma

  I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma:  she had a Honda that was running perfectly, and that had proven to be very reliable over the years. Nevertheless, she found the car boring.  She found herself eyeing […]

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  December 14, 2014

  Buddhism, Disability, History, Mental Health, Music, Politics, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Wisecracks

  american empire, Awakening Truth, Chile, Dipa Ma, Fangio, Feminism, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Juan Manuel Fangio, Music, Peter Hughes, Pinochet, Salvador Allende, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Vipassana, Vipassana Hawaii

• Read Robin D.G. Kelley on Ferguson

  This is simply to refer folks to an excellent article about Ferguson by Robin D.G. Kelley I read on the Counterpunch website after it was posted by Imani Perry on Facebook. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/75039/ Please consider a subscription to Counterpunch as well as checking out Kelley’s excellent books. In musical circles, Kelley is most known for his biography […]

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  November 26, 2014

  Book Reviews, Current Events, History

  american empire, Barack Obama, Black Agenda Report, Bruce Dixon, Counterpunch, Darren Wilson, Eddie Conway, Ferguson, History, Imani Perry, KRS-One, Left media, Mike Brown, Mike Ladd, Race, Robin D.G. Kelley, The Real News Network

• The Residents and the Arctic

  I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio.  A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity.  I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say […]

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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song

  Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young.  I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings. […]

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  September 20, 2014

  Music, Politics, Top 40 Over 40

  american empire, Brandon Eggleston, C.L.R. James, Folk Implosion, Gerald Horne, Haiti, Howlin’ Wolf, John Darnielle, Michael Gira, Muddy Waters, Music, Nick Cave, Race, Randall Robinson, Record Reviews, Spare Parts, Swans, The Bad Seeds, The Black Jacobins, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, The Real News Network, Top 40 Over 40, Touissant L’Ouverture, Walter Ben Michaels, William Faulkner, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire

• Meet the Octopus

  I just uploaded a rough mix of one of the tunes I’m working on for my next record on the page of the Kickstarter I’m running to support it.  You can check it out by clicking here, or on the photo above. It’s called El Pulpo, a handle I got from the book Inevitable Revolutions […]

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  August 17, 2014

  Crowdfunding, History, Music, Music Files, Politics, Site News, Work In Progress

  american empire, Chiquita, Columbia, El Pulpo, Empire’s Workshop, Food Justice, Greg Grandin, History, Inevitable Revolutions, Kickstarter, Music, United Fruit Company, Upcoming Projects, Walter Lafeber

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a […]

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• Top 40 Over 40.16: Holding It Down

  One possible answer to the question I posed in my post on Reckoning with REM – How come their early portraits of Southern life never said anything about the history of racist violence and forced labor in their native Georgia, even on their album Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables? – is that […]

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  March 2, 2014

  Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  Afghanistan, american empire, Blowback, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, chalmers johnson, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Holding It Down, Imperialism, In What Language?, Iraq, Lynn Hill, Maurice Decaul, Mike Ladd, Minutemen, Music, Politics, Race, Record Reviews, REM, Still Life With Commentator, Top 40 Over 40, Vijay Iyer

• New Video: The Wrong Tree

  Making a video with Michael Galinsky and his family was so nice, I had to do it twice.  Here is what we came up with together for The Wrong Tree: Don’t miss Michael’s new book Malls Across America!  It reminds me of how nothing makes me think of death more than watching decades old sports […]

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  November 22, 2013

  Book Reviews, Music, Politics, Spare Parts, Visual art

  american empire, Book Reviews, Iraq, Kurdistan, Malls Across America, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, oil, Petroleum, pipelines, Spare Parts, The Wrong Tree, Videos