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Thinking, acting, creating, communicating: within its inexhaustible wealth and diversity, human creation is going through a revolution. The masters of the world are trying to appropriate it. We resist.
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Frog in your throat? Review of The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack
Terry Eagleton
Early modern Europe was awash with cases of demonic possession. Thousands of men, women and children conversed in languages of which they had no knowledge, tore at their own flesh and uttered blasphemies and profanities. They vomited vast quantities ...
The South also rises
Pepe Escobar
Review of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad
It is not so far-fetched to imagine Walter Benjamin's Angel of History succumbing to the temptation, and stressing that the time of the Global South has finally ...
Oliver Stone's Journey from Cold Warrior to America's Untold History
The Real News Network
Oliver Stone Pt.1: I volunteered to fight in Vietnam and voted for Reagan; I started seeing through the lies and realized I had to start by understanding why we dropped the atomic bomb
BIO
Oliver Stone is a three-time Academy Award-winning director ...
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Rock 'n' Roll: A Manifesto
- Jonathan L. Fischer
We were floating somewhere in the Florida Straits, and Ian Svenonius had a message for the kids.
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My Spur Of The Moment Conversation With Canadian Punk Rocker Sacha Talens
- Baxter Labatos
Songwriting, broken guitar and writer’s block: Sacha Talens talks about creativity in this impromptu ...
And the Oscar goes to... the CIA
- Pepe Escobar
Even in his wild, stoned to death, easy rider cuckoo times, Jack Nicholson would never have imagined ...
Zero Dark Oscar
- Pepe Escobar
The buzz in Los Angeles is that Argo will win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture.
The Ben ...
Yes, we can: Non-European thinkers and philosophers
- Walter D. Mignolo
Walter Mignolo weighs in on the debate on the relative strength's of Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric ...
Spielberg vs. Tarantino: Hollywood and the Past
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
History is commonly regarded as an attempt to produce a structured account of the past. It proclaims ...
We Already Know “Zero Dark Thirty’s” Evil, But Is It Any Good?
- Uncle Ray Birney
Okay movie fans, you’ve all heard about Zero Dark Thirty’s blasé attitude toward ...
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