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Oliver Anthony’s Divisive Song Claiming Solidarity With Workers Only Benefits...
‘Don’t mourn: organise” were the last words of the great union songwriter Joe Hill, framed on a murder charge and executed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in November 1915. A reminder to activists that the...
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Bread and Circuses: Musk, Zuckerberg and the Art of Distraction
‘Panem et circenses’, said the Romans – ‘Bread and circuses’. This maxim served the Romans well. In times of crisis and whenever they needed a distraction from military defeats or political infighting...
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Rich Men North of Richmond
Rich Men North Of Richmond is the title of the hugely popular Oliver Anthony folk/country song that has incredibly rocketed to number one in the U.S. despite Anthony being publicly largely unknown...
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College Athletes Are Being Exploited. It’s Time to Unionize.
he view of college athletes as unpaid workers is gaining currency among the public. Of course, it’s one thing to have an analysis of how universities exploit their students—it’s another to know what to...
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Taylor Swift and the End of the Hollywood Writers Strike – a Tale of Two...
This fall, I’ve been starting my sociology classes by asking my students to share some uplifting news they’ve come across. On Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, they were abuzz about Taylor Swift’s appearance at...
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Intro to Participatory Economics
A cute cartoon giving a short introduction to Participatory Economics. The creator apologies for the spelling errors.
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From Rebel to Retail − Inside Bob Marley’s Posthumous Musical and...
The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic “One Love” will highlight important moments in the musician’s life – his adolescence in Trench Town, his spiritual growth, the attempt on his life. But as a music...
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Pro-Israel Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Spends $7m to Use Super Bowl as...
Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday will provide one of the biggest platforms on...
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From Salt River to the Sea
As the fans streaming toward Athlone Stadium in Cape Town were greeted by vendors selling Palestinian flags, it became clear the match about to take place would be as noteworthy as it was unusual: the...
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“Models and Bottles” Clubs’ Extravagance and Exploitation
Much of the discussion of the massive economic inequality that characterizes American society in the twenty-first century stays in the realm of abstract, bloodless statistics. We don’t often get much...
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The Hollow Myths Of A ‘Maverick’ Empire
As the US geopolitical project stumbles, and the idea of ‘benevolent statecraft’ is revealed as a sham, so too its ideological apparatus starts to wane. Hollywood, for years a supporter of the imperial...
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