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Holy Crap: The Sacred Call Of The Excluded

Peter Rollins | Posted 05.01.2013 | Religion
Peter Rollins

In Paul's definition of the trash-people as the divine collective, the crap and the holy are joined together in a type of parallax similar to what we find in the wave-particle duality discovered by physicists.

CPAC: GOP's Best!

Susie Sampson | Posted 03.24.2013 | Comedy
Susie Sampson

CPAC, always showin' off the pride and joy of America. I was honored to attend such a sacred event. I had to make my accent less apparent because people are only used to the lame stream media Yankees askin' them questions.

Pope Francis's Humility Does Nothing for the Poor

Nigel Barber | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
Nigel Barber

The new pope favors a modest lifestyle without chauffeured limousines or ostentatious palaces. I am sure that his concern for the poor is sincere. Yet, he is not going to do anything radical to reduce poverty.

What's In A Name?

Frank G. Kirkpatrick | Posted 05.15.2013 | Religion
Frank G. Kirkpatrick

Pope Francis could use the choice of his name to recall the message of St. Francis' teaching on the holiness of self-chosen poverty, not just for individuals but especially for the church which claims to represent the message of Jesus himself.

10 Nations Rapidly Losing Faith In Capitalism

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business

Are the workers of the world uniting? Not exactly, but a lot of them sure are mad. A significant number of people around the world have lost faith...

Why The 'Socialist' Charge Persists

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics

NEW YORK — When President Barack Obama's re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick to pounce. "Forward...

Press Coverage of the Cambodian Genocide: An Analysis

Sharon Wu | Posted 07.09.2012 | College
Sharon Wu

American politicians and the public lacked the necessary information to devise a viable solution. There was definitely enough press about mass deaths to alarm the public, but journalists simply couldn't provide enough information to persuade anyone to take action.

OWS and the Class Struggle Revised

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.07.2012 | Business
Robert Teitelman

OWS takes the traditional Marxist notion of class, simplifies it and inflates it into two cartoons -- the 99 percent and the 1 percent. In the process, it manages to ignore about 150 years of Marxist discussion and debate.

Are You Spring Trained for May Day?

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.23.2012 | New York
Danny Schechter

The Occupy Movement has appropriated "spring training" to describe educating and preparing activists for non-violent nationwide protests and a hoped for general strike slated for May Day 2012 (May 1).

Filmmaker Seeks Answers In Simone Weil

Posted 03.30.2012 | Religion

By Jamie L. Manson National Catholic Reporter "What response does seeing human suffering demand of us?" This question, which opens the new docu...

No Visas For You! U.S. Rejects Cuban Diplomats' Travel For Marxist Panel

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.24.2012 | Latino Voices

WASHINGTON -- The State Department says it has rejected applications from two senior Cuban diplomats to travel to New York to take part in a panel dis...

"Scientific Development" and China's Leadership Transition

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 03.05.2012 | World
Julian Baird Gewirtz

The coming year will see China's leadership transition from a decade under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao to a new cadre of younger leaders.

Hunting Down The Real Karl Marx

Mary Gabriel | Posted 12.11.2011 | Books
Mary Gabriel

Ask anyone on the street if they have heard of Karl Marx and the answer more often than not would be yes. Ask those same people what they know about Marx and the responses will be wildly different - and usually wrong.

Lucas Kavner

Can 'The Smurfs' Maintain Its Zero Percent On Rotten Tomatoes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.27.2011 | Home

If any childhood television property needed to be remade and funneled into beautiful 3D, it was definitely "The Smurfs." Most of us, in our spare ...

Is Capitalism Moral? Wrong Question...

Pierre Whalon | Posted 09.21.2011 | Business
Pierre Whalon

As we contemplate the inability of the economy to lift itself out of the depression that has devastated our common life, there is a temptation to say that capitalism is all wrong, immoral.

Roll Over, Karl Marx

Bob Burnett | Posted 08.10.2011 | Politics
Bob Burnett

Marx was half right. Unfettered capitalism has promoted class polarization in the US. But it's far from inevitable that this will produce class conflict, revolution, and a new social order. American workers are too weak and disorganized.

Most Americans Are Closeted Big Government Spenders

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Bob Cesca

When we're asked whether or not we want to cut spending, a plurality of Americans want to slash away. But when we get specific, our preference is to keep spending -- by wide margins. And when I write "wide," I mean chasm-wide. Huge.

Santa, Deconstructed

Derek Nystrom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Derek Nystrom

I've recently realized that Santa Claus actually enacts, in miniature, the various stages of our gradual recognition of and acquiescence to contemporary forms of power and authority. No, seriously, he does. Here's how.

Marxism in the Midwest?

Ian Squires | Posted 06.27.2011 | Sports
Ian Squires

Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., is home to one of America's last communist experiments; and it's a near century-long success story.

The Evil Master

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

One of the most frequent topics of discussions when talking about Cuba, is whether the reality in which we live can really be called "socialist." For...

Is China Poised for Implosion? What Would the Communist Manifesto Predict?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Howard Steven Friedman

Deng Xiaoping probably would be concerned to see that Chinese population policies and practices as well as the engine of capitalism appears to be creating a Marxian nightmare of bourgeois and proletariat.

No Goldman at the End of the Rainbow?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Michael Sigman

We now know that Goldman and other huge banks made multiple billions by financing financing -- as opposed to financing companies.

Gray Matters -- Find the Marxist Socialism in Health Reforms

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Saul Friedman

Socialism means every provider in the health care system works for the government agency that runs the system. So let's examine the reforms, and see which ones, if any, are Marxist, socialist or in danger of destroying America.

This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Jim Wallis

While I have agreed that the cause of social justice has sometimes been politicized for ideological purposes by both Left and Right, I continue to defend the term itself as biblical.

Ghosts of Presidents Past

Elizabeth Bisbee Silber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Elizabeth Bisbee Silber

The tone being as polarized as it's been in 150 years or so, I can't help but lament the fact that so many stars of the GOP whom we might look to for wisdom and answers are no longer with us.