Alternative Voices – Ep. 2: The Uncompromising Life And Times Of Norman...
“” –> Feb 23, 2014 The Melting Press // Alternative Voices – Ep. 2: The Uncompromising Life And Times Of Norman Finkelstein Transcript: Greg McInerney: Hi guys, this is Greg McInerney here for...
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January 2, 2021 I am writing a book tentatively titled, Cancel Culture, Academic Freedom and Me. It’s mostly given over to parsing the rubbish of Cancel Culture gurus, and it’s definitely not a...
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January 4, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois was a trained scholar in an era when to be trained meant something. His first book after he completed his dissertation (on the African slave trade), The Philadelphia...
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January 5, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography is laced through with bitterness, understated and dignified but nonetheless palpable, at the thousand professional slights he endured. Of his tenuous,...
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Journal-January 8, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography is conventionally chronological until he suddenly springs on the reader a chapter entitled “My Character.” Of character in general, he says...
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Journal-January 10, 2021 I lost a special friend tonight. It’s a bittersweet loss. I completed W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography. It was my close companion the past few days, we, in intimate...
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Journal-January 13 Israel: Jewish Supremacist State A brief comment on B’Tselem’s position paper designating Israel an Apartheid state 1. During the past two decades, many respected individuals...
View ArticleJournal-January 14, 2021 (Did Trump Incite Violence?)
Were Donald Trump’s remarks at the rally preceding the melee in the Capitol Building a defensible exercise of free speech? The answer would appear to be No. Without parsing the current U.S. law on...
View ArticleJournal-January 19, 2021 (ESSAY CONTEXT-$100.00 PRIZE!)
Journal-January 19, 2021): Essay Contest-$100.00 Prize I just finished reading the second of W. E. B. Du Bois’s three autobiographies, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept....
View ArticleDoes Andrew Yang Support Jewish Supremacy?
Journal-January 25, 2021 (Andrew Yang) 1. Andrew Yang is running for mayor of New York City. He will be remembered for his smooth performance during the Democratic presidential primary, when he...
View ArticleNORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON ABORTION, ROE, AND THE ALITO OPINION
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON ABORTION, ROE, AND THE ALITO OPINION Note: In this excerpt from my forthcoming book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!, I address whether it’s legitimate to suppress...
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When the Dragons Came: The Legacy of South Korean War Crimes in Vietnam by Jean-Philippe Stone. This article was first published by Quo Vademus on 13th October 2022:...
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My Mother passed 27 years ago today. Now my own mortality is rapidly closing in. Ironically, the thing I am most proud of in retrospect came the most easily to me: staying true to the values imparted...
View ArticleWhy Woke Liberals Drool over the Black Panthers
It is a fact established long ago, one that we can now take as a nearly infallible touchstone, that the bourgeoisie of all countries … is more impressed by a given method of struggle and sees it as...
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