Tag Archives: Alexander Cockburn

Havel enough

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Cockburn, andy kilmistir, Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Dalai Lama, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Soros, jeri pelikan, michael parenti, Milan Kundera, Milos Forman, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus | 1 Comment

letting the little guy throw a punch

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Dave

There is no definitive summation possible. Whether a man conflicted by what he may have perceived himself to becoming, or merely conflicted by pushing the boundary of the public intellectual into new realms, or simply enamored by the literary aesthetic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, henry giroux, john dewey, Martin Amis, Paul Klee, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, the nation, the new statesman, Thorstein Veblen, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

As Clausewitz postulated, war is simply a means for a pre-determined purpose. A continuation of policy which implies a rather solid and usually sordid link between politics and war. There have been newer theories, which may actually be clever repackaging … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Alexander Cockburn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, bill lewis art, Carl von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Julian Assange, kirsten cale, martin van creveld, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, pearl harbor, pearl harbor anniversary, pearl harbor attack, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, thomas lacquer | Leave a comment

wall street : hot under a blue collar

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dave

If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park | Leave a comment

The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Dave

Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading →