Redefining Veteran’s Day

Originally published in 2011 with Black Agenda Report.   I am officially a veteran. Like many I was conscripted by this country’s “poverty draft” and its associated judicial-military pipeline, the one that encourages military time over jail time, and then immediately pressed into service of this nation’s imperial projects. And while I recognize this reality…

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Fahrenheit 11/9 Asks “What The Fuck Happened!?”

The problem with films like those we keep getting from Michael Moore is that they continue what is a very consistent theme found in popular liberal media; they are mostly good documentaries that do what they are intended to emotionally but which ultimately cannot break analytically from their base liberal moorings. Fahrenheit 11/9 is more of…

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