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Owlcatraz: Students Resist FAU Selling Out to Private Prison

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GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) is a private firm that runs more than a hundred for-profit prisons and youth and immigrant detention facilities, in which captives are beaten and raped. One judge called one of their juvenile jails in Mississippi “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions.” The GEO Group runs three facilities in [...]

Capitalist Food Production: A Leading Cause of Hunger, Illness, Ecocide, Exploitation, and Imperialist Domination

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Capitalism is a dysfunctional economic system that benefits a few while exploiting and neglecting the majority. But it’s not only that. It’s also a social relationship of domination, where a small class of capitalists exerts power over the whole society through the private ownership of the means of production. Under capitalism, the purpose of all commodity production (including food) is [...]

Danation: How the West Was Lost

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Well, it’s over. Allen West has conceded. The election season has truly ended. Hilariously, the Politico report on Allen West’s concession mentioned his dismissing more than half of congressional Democrats as communists, only to follow that up with the line “West ran as a rare truth-teller in politics.” I do not believe his political career [...]

Todd Akin’s Rights Problem

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Todd “legitimate rape” Akin is back at it again, this time claiming that employers should have the “freedom” to discriminate against women. At a campaign event Friday — the video of which seems to have been released Monday afternoon — a male attendee asked the rep: “You voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [...]

Rush Limbaugh, Profesh Dick, Opines on … Dicks

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Rush Limbaugh claims that dicks are shrinking worldwide — and that chicks are to blame. No, really. Raw Story, reblogging a Media Matters post, brought to our attention Rush’s recent rant against — you guessed it — liberated women. Rush — who pretty much symbolizes the GOP’s insecure white guy schtick — says that “feminazis” [...]

Republican National Convention: Observations From My Couch

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Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]

Danation: Paul Ryan Is a Deceitful, Conniving Snake

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Sure it’s an inflammatory headline, but it’s also accurate, which is more than I could say for the Republican vice presidential nominee’s speech last night. It should come as no shock that politicians of all stripes stretch the truth in their speeches. Some are quite good at lies of omission and exaggerations. (Hell, our current [...]

What We Can Learn — and Teach — From Akingate

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So, I have been hesitant to say anything about Akingate because, up until this point, I wasn’t quite sure what I could say that wouldn’t just be an endless loop of “Seriously, America, WHAT THE FUCK?” Indeed, I knew what everyone else did: Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo), responding to a question about whether abortion should [...]

Modest Proposals: A Trump-Inspired List of Political Deals

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In keeping with his humble role as America’s modern King Solomon, Donald Trump has recently offered to broker a trade on behalf of this Godly nation’s two contenders for the highest office: If President Barack Obama releases his college transcripts, says Trump, then perhaps Gov. Mitt Romney can be persuaded to release his taxes. I lack Donald [...]