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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Bhabani Nayak |Philip Farruggio |Charles Andrews
OrientationHow I got involved in modelingMy father’s family was very poor. He was one of seven kids who lived in Brooklyn New York, the sons and daughters of an Italian-American family. My father was a very good artist growing up and despite ridicule, he persisted. When he was about 18 he brought his drawings to Manhattan to show advertising agencies his work in the hopes that they would buy them. They liked what they saw and he became a freelance commercial artist.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Michael Albert |Charles Andrews |zeenat khan |Vidyadhar Date
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.]Perhaps you are aware there is a new movie out titled A Complete Unknown. It addresses the first five years, or thereabouts, in Bob Dylan’s public musical life. I have not yet seen it. I have read some interviews with cast, director, etc., and have seen some excerpts, as well as heard from some friends who have seen it.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
smdp.com | Charles Andrews
MAYBE, A LITTLE HASTY – courtesy photo, LA OperaTIME’S A-WASTIN’ As the calendar year ticks away so do the opportunities for great live performances. Unless you love Christmas carols and can’t wait for your 38th sitting through “The Nutcracker” (depending on how many kids and grandkids you have). Some performers would rather stay close to home this time of year, and promoters and venues figure people are spending their hard earned bitcoin on other things.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Philip Farruggio |Bruce Lerro |Charles Andrews |T Vijayendra
The embedded mainstream media, owned by this Military Industrial Empire, has made Socialism synonymous with Communism. That makes the ( sadly) dumbed down public think of the old Soviet Union with its totalitarianism. They are made to believe that Big Brother will run all our goods and services, with no personal hands on. Well, this writer’s choice of salvation for us all is a bit different than that. Let’s examine where I am coming from.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Charles Andrews
From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part IOrientationOne purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most powerful forms of creativity are collective, not individual.
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Aug 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Kim Scipes |Carlos L Garrido |Charles Andrews
From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part IOrientationOne purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most powerful forms of creativity are collective, not individual.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Charles Andrews |T Vijayendra |Richard D. Wolff
OrientationLeninist and anarchist shortcomings in relation to rhetoricA little over three years ago I wrote an article about how bad Mordor Leninists and anarchists are about knowing about, let alone using rhetorical rhetoric.
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May 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Shiraz Durrani |Bruce Lerro |Charles Andrews
Capitalism operates as a system that many argue is akin to a criminal enterprise, one that exploits both labour and nature in pursuit of ever-increasing profits. This economic model thrives on a hierarchical structure, resembling a pyramid, where those at the top reap the most benefits while those at the bottom bear the heaviest burdens. Laborers often find themselves subjected to low wages, precarious working conditions, and limited rights, all to fuel the relentless capitalist pursuit of profit.
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May 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Bruce Lerro |Bhabani Nayak |Charles Andrews
Capitalism and imperialism have been exposed as anti-people forces like never before by their sponsorship of the genocide of the Palestinian people by their special agent, ‘Israel’, an illegal country created by imperialism on Palestinian soil. What was known, but kept hidden by imperialist-friendly media, is now part of people’s awareness around the world.
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May 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Bhabani Nayak |Charles Andrews |Philip Farruggio
OrientationWho are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The Neocon realists are represented by people like Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Steve Bannon and other war hawks who go back to the Bush Years (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz) and back even further to Michael Ledeen, Irving Krystal and Leo Strauss. The Neocons never found a war they didn’t like.
