I’m deeply saddened to learn of the death of John Sinclair at 83, grand old man of the counter-culture. Even in the 1960s, at a time when we had many figures with a revolutionary bent, John Sinclair stood out.
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James McMurtry performs We Can’t Make It Here Anymore James McMurtry recorded this video in 2007 and the message is becoming increasingly apt for our modern times as the superpower implodes and America rips itself apart. This is the state of the richest country on Earth after the oligarchy bled it dry. What they did
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Workers across America are winning a living wage. Halfway decent minimum wages work … certainly better than what we currently have. An important principle is grasped in America and is spreading. Let’s hope the same happens here. Ed Miliband should remember this when the Labour right are pressing him to emulate Ukip. Will Hutton writes
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Duck stars at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis This article first appeared in Gap Year Magazine The Mississippi Blues trail It was the ducks that did it. Even they had their own musical accompaniment: the King Cotton March by John Phillip Sousa, as it happens. Any trip worth remembering will have its own soundtrack that stays
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With a mixture of sympathy, schadenfreude and amusement, it seems. Evan Osnos writes in The New Yorker: After several years in which American diplomats have inveighed against Internet censorship in China, the proposals have inspired a bit of snickering. ‘The Great Firewall turns out to be a visionary product; the American government is trying to
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Is it my imagination or is cuddly President Barack Obama picking a fight with China?
No sooner has the world begun to heal after the Bush neocon excesses that led to such bloodshed in the Middle east, than Obama announces a tectonic shift in US imperialist policy.
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