Rad Geek Answers Your Reader Questions
Sometimes radgeek.com gets reader questions. I try to answer them if I can. Here is the latest one to come in through my feedback form. The abrupt cut-off of the text is sic in the original e-mail I...
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Bolivarian Process
State socialism is the cooptation and consumption of popular energy and liberation movements into a brutal and exploitative structure of party control, self-feeding state structures and authortarian...
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Shared Article from WordPress Plugins Repository FeedWordPress Version 2016.1211 released. Mostly compatibility fixes, one bugfix thing. WP 4.7 compatibility. Charles Johnson @...
View ArticleShameless Self-promotion Sunday
It’s time for some winter weather here in East Alabama; time also for winter holidays. Since I’ve been off-duty from classes, I’ve taken some time to get away for a little while from the reading I have...
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Dialectico-Political Semantic Drift (or: I Learned It From YOU, Dad…)
Shared Article from Reason.com Let's Be Clear About Who Drained the Meaning from the Phrase 'Fa… Don't scapegoat the right for this. You can spread the blame a lot more widely than that. Jesse Walker...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading: Kim Addonizio, “Chicken” (2004)
From The Best American Poetry: 2004, eds. Lyn Hejinian and David Lehman, pp. 15-16. I’m not always convinced that the title of this anthology is strictly accurate. But this one is probably my favorite...
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The Police Beat, 20th Anniversary Edition: “The tools developed in the...
When political people talk about giving broad new powers to police, regulators or government spies — especially when political people talk about allowing them extraordinary powers to conduct...
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ICE Spies
For more than a decade now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the violent federal law-enforcement agency that specializes in hunting down, rounding up, imprisoning and deporting...
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“But my point here is what a pleasure it is to run these tools...
What I’m Reading: Danny O’Brien, Oblomovka, 16-17 March 2023: Shared Article from Oblomovka Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » Only fans My PC died yesterday, screaming in pain as its brain...
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Bolivarian Process (cont’d): There Is Not Enough Functioning Equipment...
What I’m Reading: A long article and photo spread, this Sunday, in the New York Times. Shared Article from nytimes.com Venezuela’s Oil Industry Is Broken. Now It’s Breaking the En… Gas flares and...
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