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Cue the Permanent Campaign
You probably won’t read this column until after the 2012 US presidential election, but I’m actually writing it the day before. I can do that because the content of the column will remain the same...
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Dear Obama Supporters: a letter from an anarchist
Congratulations. Your preferred candidate won a second term as president. I’m sure y’all are too busy dancing in the streets and smilecrying and stuff to be on the Internet right now, but this will be...
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Queridos partidarios de Obama: carta de un anarquista
The following article is translated into Spanish from the English original, written by Trevor Hultner. Felicidades. Vuestro candidato preferido ha conseguido un segundo mandato como presidente. Estoy...
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Kära Obama-Supporters: Ett brev från en anarkist
The following article is translated into Swedish from the English original, written by Trevor Hultner. Grattis. Kandidaten ni föredrog vann en andra mandatperiod som president. Jag är säker på att ni...
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Caros Partidários de Obama: carta de um anarquista
The following article is translated into Portuguese from the English original, written by Trevor Hultner. Congratulações. O candidato favorito de vocês conseguiu segundo mandato como presidente. Estou...
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61.2
That’s my tentative estimate (based on Google election result and population statistics) of the percentage of Americans who voted for nobody for President of the United States on Tuesday. US President...
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Уважаемым сторонникам Обамы: послание от анархиста
The following article is translated into Russian from the English Original, written by Trevor Hultner. Мои поздравления. Ваш кандидат победил и стал президентом на второй срок. Я уверен, что сейчас вы...
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Obama, Let’s Try This Again
Back in January of 2009, newly elected Barak Obama started a webpage titled Change.Gov The Office of the President-Elect. One of the purposes of this site, The Citizen’s Briefing Book, was to solicit...
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The Electoral Suspension of Disbelief
There exists in the country now — and there has existed for some time — an appreciable readiness to, if you will, suspend disbelief when it comes to the claims of politicians. An eagle-eyed professor...
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Dear Conservative America
Conservative? Still disheartened by the election? This column is for you. More specifically, it’s for you if you are the more serious kind, and were already upset about Romney getting the nomination....
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Elections and the Technocratic Ideology
People who vote for politicians such as Brazilian presidential candidate Aecio Neves, as well as many of his party’s supporters (the Social Democracy Brazilian Party, PSDB), are often dumbfounded when...
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Elezioni e Ideologia Tecnocratica
Chi vota per politici come il candidato alla presidenza brasiliana Aecio Neves, così come molti dei simpatizzanti del suo partito (Partito Socialdemocratico Brasiliano, Psdb), spesso va in confusione...
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The Punitive Left and the Criminalization of Homophobia
In the now classic article “A esquerda punitiva” (“The Punitive Left”), Maria Lucia Karam criticizes the Brazilian left for forsaking their deeply held beliefs on social change and uniting with those...
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Sinistra Punitiva e Criminalizzazione dell’Omofobia
Nell’ormai classico articolo “A esquerda punitiva” (“La Sinistra Punitiva”), Maria Lucia Karam critica la sinistra brasiliana aver abbandonato i propri principi profondi sul cambiamento sociale e per...
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The Slavish Partisanship of Brazil’s Socialists
The second campaign round of Brazil’s presidential election between Worker’s Party (PT) candidate and president Dilma Rousseff and Brazilian Social Democratic Party candidate Aecio Neves has started...
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Elections and the Technocratic Ideology on Feed 44
C4SS Feed 44 presents Erick Vasconcelos‘ “Elections and the Technocratic Ideology” read by Christopher King and edited by Nick Ford. It’s not about being governed or not, it’s about who is going to do...
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The Weekly Abolitionist: Prisons and the Myth of Democratic Legitimacy
It’s election day in the USA. The mass incarceration nation is deciding which political opportunists will rule. On the state and local level, citizens are casting their votes on ballot initiatives that...
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The Weekly Libertarian Leftist and Chess Review 57
Laurence M. Vance discusses why he could never be elected to office. Noam Chomsky discusses how the U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state. Ivan Eland discusses whether Obama is the worst...
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The Problem with Electoral Politics
On April 29th, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could “prohibit judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting funds for their campaigns”, in the case of, in the case of Williams-Yulee...
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The good news about the presidential election season is that so many voters seem disgusted with career politicians. The bad news is that these voters are naively opting for “outsiders” who in reality...
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