Hosting the Olympics affords a city the rare opportunity to completely remake itself. It’s a chance to bulldoze slums, relocate the underclass, and crack down with increased police, security and surveillance systems. While hosting the games is an...

Could this NPR report possibly be Pentagon agitprop meant to counter public concern over civilian deaths in Afghanistan? The piece produces anecdotal evidence by interviewing US soldiers who are frustrated by the question of whether to shoot or not,...

The internet is a medium of the spectacle. When you read Reading the Spectacle you are, in a sense, literally reading the spectacle. “In analyzing the spectacle we are obliged to a certain extent to use the spectacle’s own language, in the sense that...

REMEMBER this post? (One of our self-proclaimed greatest hits!) Even in our criticism, we bought into the larger lie. Well, as it turns out, we’ve now got information — new shit has come to light. Or one might say, new questions have been raised,...

“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” — Henry David Thoreau — Chris Floyd takes off from there in Savvy to a Fault: Coming to Terms With Imperial...