I finally wrangled some more of my musical content from 2009. Here are four of my Metromix reviews involving the smoothest rappers alive, a guitar army, and a dark dance-pop […]
Well, let’s start wrapping up the stragglers from my year’s worth of content, shall we? Starting with this investigation of the sugar substitute aspartame, which can either kill you outright […]
What’s crazy is that few saw it coming.
From economic misery and political impotence to environmental waste and social catastrophe, American culture is overburdened by nightmares. I wrote an acidic but nevertheless educational rant for AlerNet on how […]
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] On the ninth day of the Copenhagen climate summit, Africa was sacrificed. The position of the G-77 negotiating bloc, including African states, had been clear: a […]
[Remy Schneider, Morphizm] The Heavy, The House That Dirt Built First listen Sentence Fragment: Garage-funktronic swing sung by a testosterone-injected Nina Simone. Further Analysis: The House That Dirt Built morphs […]
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] I thought that headline would get your attention. And it’s true. I’m biting my nails waiting for the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election […]
Hey, have you heard the one about the underwater homeowners who unsuccessfully tried to modify their home loans, but got even by tying two loan servicers to chairs and beating […]
I’ve got some great editors at AlterNet. They always keeps me on my toes with interesting topics. One of my favorite editors recently assigned me an analysis of birth rates, […]
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] GENEVA — Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet today in Geneva on the tenth anniversary of the “Battle in Seattle,” the […]
“Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility.”
Stephen Colbert’s nightly merge of news, hilarity, social commentary, wit and shameless plugs for everything from his painting in the Smithsonian to his marketable man-seed have fully turned the pop-culture’s self-obsessed mirror upon itself.
Its revolutionary mix of geopolitics, sci-fi and psychedelia has influenced not just television, but also music, comics, film and more.
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s […]
What gets lost in the remake’s dark dissection of human relationships complicated by ubiquitous surveillance and callous commodification is, simply put, ambition.
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And […]
“De-evolution seems even more a part of our daily reality than ever. There is more misinformation, humans have overrun the planet, and it is not nuclear bombs we must fear, but the human mind. Or lack of it.”
I conceived this article before the Dow passed 10,000, and wrote it afterward. It went up on AlterNet right before the Dow fell from 10,000 and now I’m posting it […]
“It’s kind of like opening up a massive can of worms.”
When people first started writing this stuff, they didn’t call it science fiction.
I always love to interview the conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. His art consists in crafting up out-there propositions that make you think and laugh in equal measure. His latest is […]
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] Of all the explanations for Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “It sets the seal on […]
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Tell me where it hurts, Mr. President. What’s killing you is what’s killing us all: An evil germ called “Medical Loss Ratio.” “Medical Loss Ratio” [MLR] is […]
Subway has managed to carve out a lucrative niche in a perfect storm of fast food and economic recession.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies packs more heroes, action and political satire into a couple hours of entertainment than either icon’s animated series did in the course of several seasons.
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