Notes from the Ninth Circle

Essays, commentary, videos, information about political events, freethought, social democracy, history, and anything else I feel like writing about. Poems too, and a few short stories.

16 November 2011

Birds of a Feather

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From left to right and top to bottom: Chicago's former Mayor Richard Daley, Syria's President Bashar al Assad, Libya's...

11 November 2011

Iran Elections Crackdowns Photo Compilation (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

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Letters from Iran - General - Al Jazeera English

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Letters from Iran - General - Al Jazeera English From the Al Jazeera English website: While winds of change have been blowing throug...

07 November 2011

For a Cooperative Commonwealth

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Why socialism? Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Why capitalism? Because the greed of the few over...

05 November 2011

V's speech to the people of London

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04 November 2011

The Greek Fumble

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Recently Greece’s Prime Minister Papandreou outraged the financial oligarchy that determines the course of social and economic—and theref...

27 October 2011

The Fourth Branch of American government

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( Written in the early weeks of the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011 ) When I was in elementary school, I learned that America is ...

25 October 2011

Occupy America, and the world

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“Let them eat cake!” – Marie Antoinette Hapsburg Bourbon, Paris, France, 1789 Sometime this past spring, looking at the actions and...

07 October 2011

The real end of the Roman Empire in the West

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Christopher Columbus discovered America. The issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the American South. The Orde...

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Chuck Hamilton: I am a Terran, a citizen of Earth. The whole world is my home and all its people my brother, sisters, and cousins regardless of organic or synthetic origin. Like our distant cousins on other planets across space and throughout time, we are all children of the Universe. None of us asked to be born, and none of us will get out of here alive.

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