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How would that be? Hilary Clinton will be 'elected', in the absence of course of the reps getting away with their on-going gerrymandering tactics (as you may know, US prezniz are never elected by popular vote, but are determined by the machinations of the elite Electoral Colleges, which is why...

It seems that 'Godard movie circa 1968' bikes are again all the rage in some of the world's leading bike cities: Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Bogota, as this recent video reveals; hardly a mountain bike in sight in most of these images, something to do with functionality rather than sport, social...

Yes, such absolutists always condemn themselves to endless circular reasoning and bizarre contradiction, then seeking to escape such deadlocks by simply moving the goal-posts yet again: if the soul is itself immortally 'born' at conception (though how a soul's emergent metaphysical, noumenal...

I don't think that anyone who invokes 'soul' does so as an apologetic, inferior substitute for some other term, much less in a clumsy way [symbolically lazy or uncritical, maybe, but not haphazardly), and of all the metonyms in the English language, surely the most rigid and determinate one is...

I think all of them, beginning with Plato (who was the first to conceive of the notion of a copy without an original - a simulation), have experimented with, and played around with, ideas that challenge transcendence. Interesting that some posters here posit a 'soul' [whether they believe in one...

Pron: k-lee, which is actually spelt céilí or Céilidh, originally referred to a rural Irish/Scottish music event involving traditional Irish dancing - céilí dancing, set dancing (like Riverdance) with traditional instruments, including bagpipes, accordion, bodhrán, tin whistle, etc. The...

Update on Samina Malik I wonder what her sentence would have been if she'd called her Teddy Bear, "Al-Qaeda"? (Win the Turner Prize, maybe?)

Thanks for posting this, Gavin; it's been ages since I've read anything by Amin, and this latest piece further clarifies what has previously been argued hereabouts.

No need, it's already happening (the US MIC predictably taking its 'ideas' from assorted SF B-movies), and developed by a company called ... Raytheon! And currently being tested in ... Iraq (with a ready mass-market of 'cooperative' guinea pigs). A heat-wave gun developed by Raytheon -...

Morrissey responds ("I abhor racism, and apologise - for speaking to NME"). Some hesitation? Shame On Us "Amis got away with it. He got away with as odious an outburst of racist sentiment as any public figure has made in this country for a very long time. Shame on him for saying it, and...

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It just further confirms what was already widely known, but the neo-cons have never heeded the findings of the US' 16 intelligence organisations (here, again, they have simply dismissed them), preferring to invent their own 'findings' in accordance with their still-operative, war-crazed agenda...

But the illegal invasions of defenceless countries previously rendered so by years of war - Iraq and Afghanistan - the mass slaughter of over a million people; that's not 'just a teensy bit' of an over-reaction (and to a totally unrelated event), of course. And what about the nutters...

The Myths of Military Progress The More Things Appear to Change, the More They Don't By Ron Jacobs State Department official Iraq update is really compilation of plagiarized major media articles :

Yes. It reads - and looks - like any other product brochure, with 'consumer blackmail' brands to make you feel guilty for not consuming hard or 'responsibly' enough. And Shriver, in his Guardian spin, can't help but fall over himself with contradictory babble, even in the same paragraph: "It is...

From religious fundamentalism to radical secular geopolitical analysis: "Most recognize Amriki as being the main person behind the al-Sahab media organisation, and it is thought that he runs its editing suite from the back of a van somewhere in and around the border areas between Afghanistan...

Are you sure your students aren't in fact computer-generated writing/translation software bots? :cool: Maybe re-process the above paragraphs through The Shannonizer: a web toy with delusions of literacy, picking the Edgar Allen Poe editor 'option' to generate: The new lyrics as edited by...

Yes, good - finally something on which we can agree ...

But its their statements that were being questioned, not some imagined personal individual hiding behind them. So something like "Mr Tea" is simply a label associated with a defence of the KKKurvers; if this isn't obvious from explicit statements in "Mr Tea's" posts here, then there's a very...

What hyperbole? Pointing out that racism is so routine, is so casually institutionalized throughout society as to be unconscious, such that twits like Tea & Co can smugly imagine themselves to be immune while actually defending it, may be provocative [it is supposed to be] but it is certainly...