Tag: Cold War

• Top 40 Over 40.33: Blemish

  I think I’ve found my personal record of the year. It’s Roberta Flack’s First Take. There’s a song on it called I Told Jesus that joins Jesus is Waiting by Al Green as the only songs that give me a feel for what it is about Christianity that moves people. (I was raised in a…

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  October 9, 2022

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  Al Green, Already Gone, Blemish, C.L.R. James, Christianity, Cold War, David Sylvian, Derek Bailey, Divorce, Doug Henwood, First Take, Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, New Hampshire, Pere Ubu, Roberta Flack, Scott Solter, Simon Joyner, Specters of Marx, The Eagles, Toshimaru Nakamura, Vermont

• 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

• The Interpretation of Dreams

  I don’t usually watch the Olympics much.  Not because I don’t enjoy the events, but because NBC usually feels compelled to shovel forklifts of “human interest” stories down your throat with brief breaks taken for cursory athletic performances.  So I wasn’t surprised when I checked in on the Olympics briefly this summer and didn’t see…

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  August 22, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, History, Politics, Sports

  Capitalism, Cold War, Dream Team, IMF, Imperialism, Latin America, Michael Jordan, Politics, Sports, USA, Washington Consensus

• To the victor go the spoils…

  The record producer Joe Boyd visited a studio in a former eastern block country shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The engineers there proudly showed off what they thought was a state of the art newly acquired reverb unit they had acquired from some western engineers who visited their studio.  When Boyd asked…

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  April 22, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, History, Music, Politics

  Capitalism, Cold War, EMT-140, Feminism, IMF, Joe Boyd, Left media, Music, Politics, Sex Trafficking, USA, Washington Consensus

• Muffled in Miami.2

  As a post script to my post on the censure of Ozzie Guilllen for his comments on Cuba, I’m posting today stories from The Real News Network and Democracy Now on the isolation of the US and Canada at the just-concluded Summit of the Americas because of their refusal to allow Cuba to participate.  As…

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  April 17, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, History, Politics, Sports

  Bill Clinton, Cold War, Fidel Castro, Food Justice, Haiti, IMF, Imperialism, Latin America, Miami Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, Politics, Sports, USA, Washington Consensus, World Bank