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Some Political Essays

Jesse Lemisch:  "Nader vs. The Big Rock Candy Mountain" (from New Politics)

Julius Jacobsen:  "On Liberal/Left Responses to the War On Democracy" (from New Politics)

"Why I'm An 'Left Independent'...And NOT A Democrat" (my essay from my SmackDog Chronicles website)

"The Ralph Nader Quandry....." (from my SmackDog Chronicles website)

Annalee Newitz: "TECHSPLOITATION: Not Your Activism" (from Alternet)

David Walsh on the "Passion of the Christ" Controversy (from the World Socialist Web Site)

Two More Essays on "Passion" by Mike Davis and Robert Jay Lipton (from TomDispatch.com) 

My Position on the "Political Compass" (Courtesy of PolliticalCompass.org) 

Joanne Landy on Getting The Hell Out of Iraq....Now (from New Politics)

"No Democrat's Gonna Beat Bushism": An Interview With Green Party Activist Howie Hawkins (from Open Letter Online)

A Verrrry Fascinating Essay By Mark Ames on "Spite Voters" (from the NY Press)

Lenni Brenner on the Dilemma of Catholics (from CounterPunch)

The Fallacy of "Anyone But Bush" and the Democrats -- Requiem on the 2004 Elections

Inventing the American Left..Through A Platform of Peace, Equality, and Pleasure