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The Bleached Bones of the Dead
What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It’s More Than Back Wages)
• February 23, 2014
• 3,200 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who blamed Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake on Haitians for selling their souls to Satan. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble -- as many as 300,000 died -- when Robertson went on TV andgave his viewing audience a... Read More
Greg Grandin: The Reparations of History, Paid and Unpaid
• February 23, 2014
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When Americans think about slavery, we think about the Civil War, cotton plantations in Georgia, and the legacy that those centuries of bondage left in the United States. But we forget that, 200 years ago, the institution in various forms extended throughout the world: hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indian peasants were in debt... Read More
Greg Grandin: The Terror of Our Age
• January 26, 2014
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Okay, Big Oil's latest quarterly profits weren’t the highest in history. That would be the combined$51.5 billion the top six companies hauled in during a single quarter in 2008. In the third quarter of 2013, thanks to somewhat lower oil prices, the Big Five made a mere $23 billion in profits or $175,000 a minute... Read More
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The Two Faces of Empire
Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them
• January 26, 2014
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A captain ready to drive himself and all around him to ruin in the hunt for a white whale. It’s a well-known story, and over the years, mad Ahab in Herman Melville’s most famous novel, Moby-Dick, has been used as an exemplar of unhinged American power, most recently of George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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