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Lost on a Fearless Plain (Joe Bageant)
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust May 12, 2010 AJIJIIC, Mexico -- I've spent most of this week watching American television and movies. I leave the TV on all night long. I toss and turn with my bad back, and bad lungs, catch a rerun episode of Two and a Half Men, or CSI, and conk out again. Then I awaken to the U.S. morning talk shows. It's a grueling regimen, only for the strong. Or the ...
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Honk If You Love Caviar! (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe, Hopkins Village, BelizeUnderstanding America's Class System Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2010 How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Che ...
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BOOKS: Bitter Tales from the Massive White Underclass in Joe Bageant's "Redneck" Memoir
"Economic, political, and social culture in America is staggering under the sheer weight of its white underclass, which now numbers some sixty million." Sept. 20, 2010 (AlterNet) -- The following is ...
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Algorithms And Red Wine: Is The 'Digital Hive' A Soft Totalitarian State? | Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular ...
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Lost in the American Undertow | Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2011 -- The United States has always maintained a white underclass -- citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cu ...
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The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2008 We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that som ...
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Roy's People: American Liberalism Needs More Roy Orbison And Less Wonk Strategy (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant Can American liberalism rise from Washington’s two-bed brothel to dance with the ghost of Roy Orbison and eat garden tomatoes? Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 -- 10 a.m. -- ...
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Escape from the Zombie Food Court | Joe Bageant
Joe with BingoThe high technological imprisonment of our consciousness has been fairly recent. There are still those among us who remember when it was not so entrapped. A few of us still know what it ...
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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat Larr ...
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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...
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Live from Planet Norte | Joe Bageant
Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder Joe Bageant -- World News Trust June 27, 2010 WINCHESTER, Va. -- Starting with the Homeland Security probe at Washington's Reagan Airport, arrival b ...
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