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An annotated look at Mike’s side of the bedroom

If anyone ever needed proof that my wife is a saint, look no further than our bedroom. Over the course of the past several years, I’ve slowly built a motif on my side of the bed that can only be … Continue reading

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On Building the Polemic

You don’t have to be a Marxist to appreciate the fact that few people have ever been so skilled at building polemic arguments as V.I. Lenin.  Consider this passage from his 1915 work New Data on the Laws Governing the … Continue reading

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Iran’s ruling clique and the problems of the left

Originally posted to my old blog under the title “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Ecce homo” way back on on September 30, 2007. Some material has been been updated as of January 2018. Back in early August, I attended a local Hiroshima Remembrance Day program.  The … Continue reading

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E. Sylvia Pankhurst

Originally posted 08 Dec 2006 on greeklish.org In 1979, Dave Widgery wrote of his “love” for E. Sylvia Pankhurst in a Radical America piece entitled Sylvia Pankhurst: Pioneer of Working Class Feminism.  The article was written almost two full decades … Continue reading

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