Robert Jensen
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Projecting Power or Promoting Peace
A version of this essay was delivered at the “People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute” event at Southern Methodist [...] Full Story -
Elections: The Day After
November 2 is going to be a big day in our political lives. But November 3 will be far more important. On mid-term Election [...] Full Story -
Political Wish List: Honest Talk About Economics, Empire, and Energy
There’s no shortage of political blather in this year’s mid-term election campaigns, but most of us yearn for substantive discussion of the serious problems [...] Full Story -
Soils and Souls: The Promise of the Land
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A poet, an economist, and a biologist walk into a barn in Kansas and start talking. What [...] Full Story -
Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song
Staff Awards 2010 AltWeekly Awards First Place / Investigative Reporting Circulation under 50,000: Dave Mann, “Burn Patterns” It was just past 1 a.m. [...] Full Story
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The Jemima Code: Toni Tipton-Martin Explores the Politics of the Kitchen, Past and Present.
AUSTIN, Texas—In the cafeteria-turned-classroom at UT Elementary School, Toni Tipton-Martin struggles to keep six restless boys focused on hot cocoa, the day’s nutrition lesson. [...] Full Story -
The Soul Seeker
There’s a struggle going on inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a [...] Full Story -
Monitoring the Myths
Monitoring the Myths BY ROBERT JENSEN War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death By Norman Solomon John Wiley & [...] Full Story -
Alternative Futures
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy There is no alternative. Capitalism is the only future. Free markets are the essence of democracy. How do we know? [...] Full Story -
Empirically Speaking
Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN When George W. ordered jets to bomb targets around Baghdad last month, he showed contempt not [...] Full Story
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