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Oct.11.2012
By Dennis Loo
As Rebecca Solnit put it in admonishing the Left to support Obama’s re-election: Obama may be killing innocent children abroad, but that’s not new for American presidents (!!), and Obama at least is promoting health care in ways that Mitt Romney wouldn’t.
In other words, even if the...
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Mar.03.2012
Update:
In today's New York Times (3/3/12), in the lead story about the February 21st burning by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan of Muslim holy books, including at least four Qurans, which has sparked nationwide riots, we find this citing of the conclusions of a joint commission of three Afghan...
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Feb.16.2012
When a player is playing that well, he doesn’t come out of nowhere. It seems like he comes out of nowhere. Go back and take a look, and the skill level was probably there from the beginning, it’s just that we didn’t notice it.
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Feb.01.2012
Part 1 can be read here. Part 2 is here.
A friend at Red Room, where the first two of my article series are also posted, commented on my "Dirty, Pretty Things: Apple, Inc. and China" series that the conditions of the Chinese workers at Apple suppliers such as Foxconn and Wintek are preferable...
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Jan.28.2012
Part I of this article can be found here.
The New York Times’ articles on Apple in China (I and II) have struck a chord and there is talk of an Apple boycott circulating among American journalists. Since Apple’s success depends a great deal on its being seen as cool, the explosions and suicides...
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Jan.27.2012
“Capital … comes into the world soiled with gore from top to toe and oozing blood from every pore.”
-- Karl Marx, Capital
I love my Mac and iPad. Their design and...
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Jan.25.2012
I'm going to comment on just a few things about Obama's SOTU speech last night. So many lies, so little time!
First, obviously absent the Occupy Movement, there would have been no talk in his speech about making the rich pay their fair share. This indicates the significance of social movements'...
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Jan.15.2012
The four U.S. Marines shown on video urinating on the dead bodies of Afghanis, allegedly Taliban fighters, has sparked heated debate in this country and sparked outrage in the world. In an MSNBC story entitled: “Extreme war stresses to blame in Marine urination video?” Eugenia Weiss, a USC...
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Jan.06.2012
The media have, with few exceptions, not covered the passage and signing by Obama of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) in a fashion that would alert the populace to the momentousness of what is afoot. Even among those who know of the NDAA, many are reacting with astonishing...
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Dec.19.2011
Whenever the election cycle starts up, some people tell us that they feel that they have no choice but ”to hold their noses” and vote for the “lesser evil,” by which they usually mean the Democratic candidate (although there’s a right-wing version of this in which they choose the Republican...
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Dec.15.2011
The White House announced today that it would not veto the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The NDAA mandates the military to arrest and indefinitely detain any person, including American citizens, anywhere in the world, including on US soil, who is accused by authorities as a terrorist...
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Dec.14.2011
Contrary to most people’s understanding, real political power does not principally exist either by the vehicle of voting or through the publicly displayed actions of the existing political institutions such as Congress and the White House.
Real political power actually rests upon two bases:...
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Dec.09.2011
The American Dream, as everyone knows, is that if you work hard, play by the rules, and persevere, that you will have a comfortable life for you and your family: (what used to be described as) the house with a white picket fence, 2.5 children, a chicken in the pot, and a Winnebago.
What is the...
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Dec.04.2011
I'm going to quote a passage from my latest book here in connection with the Senate's passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 a few days ago because it helps to contextualize what's going on here:
"If the 'War on Terror' is treated as the nation’s foremost concern, and if the...
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Dec.02.2011
Yesterday the Senate passed a bill, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012 (S. 1867) that makes a suitable matching pair for the prior day’s forcible police action evicting the last remaining large occupation, Occupy LA, and that of the Occupy encampment in Philadelphia.
This bill...
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Brilliant... a game changer. ”
—Sharon Araji, Past President of the Pacific Sociological Association (On Globalization and the Demolition of Society)
About Dennis
I was born and raised in Honolulu, third or fourth generation Chinese-American, depending on which side of the family you count from. My father was a physician and my mother, as was standard for her generation, a homemaker. I attended Punahou School and then...
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World Can't Wait, Occupy, War Criminals Watch, Doctors without Borders, Wikileaks, We Are Not Your Soldiers
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