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Political commentary and news analysis from a radical left perspective.

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Photograph attributed to David Colburn . UPDATE (10:40 PM PST): CourtneyOccupy is ustreaming from Oakland . Others will probably soon be doing so as well. Find them through the Twitter hash...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-smash-windows-at-oakland-obama.html

Just to show how bad things have gotten at firedoglake, Pam Spaulding had a panic attack over gays and lesbians having a kiss in at Chick-fil-A today. After another instance of firedoglake histor...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/08/pam-spaulding-wets-her-pants-over-kiss.html

Born into privilege, Gore Vidal lived 5 lives simultaneously. I can barely get to work everyday, raise my son and emotionally participate in my family, while Vidal was a novelist, socialite and p...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-brief-remark-about-death-of-gore-vidal.html

UPDATE 4 (1:05 PM PST): March of approximately 200 people through the working class neighborhoods of Anaheim to the police station in progress. UPDATE 3 (12:55 PM PST): List of all streamers in ...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/anaheim-protest-at-apd-today.html

Disney is the power behind everything in Anaheim.

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/anaheim-protest-police-brutality-at.html

Political commentary and news analysis from a radical left perspective.

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/anaheim.html

Alexander Cockburn liked pit barbeque. I know this, because, just prior to a planned road trip through Georgia and the Carolinas several years ago, he asked Counterpunch readers to recommend some...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/an-appreciation-of-alexander-cockburn.html

Jeffrey St. Clair informs us that Alexander Cockburn is dead at 71: > Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in > Germany, after a fierce two-year long battl...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/farewell-alex-my-friend.html

Mel, known for the excellent Broadsnark blog, explained her evolution back in 2009 . It remains well worth reading in its entirety today. Here's an excerpt that provides a provocative insight in...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/mel-known-for-excellent-broadsnark-blog.html

For information, go to the Twitter hashtag @Lakeviewsitin . All but two people left the school voluntarily. Rally planned for 5pm in front of the school. It has been reported that the police, a c...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/07/peoples-school-lakeview-elementary.html

A couple of weeks ago, Louis Proyect posted an excellent article to The North Star site, Party-Building in the 21st Century . Proyect, the unrepentent Marxist , writes from the perspective of som...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/response-to-party-building-in-21st.html

UPDATE: From an article written by Ryan Phillips of Oakland North: > The entrance to Lakeview on Grand Avenue was guarded by Occupy > Oakland protesters on Thursday, who tried...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/peoples-school-for-public-education.html

UPDATE: Sarris was known for considering film directors to be auteurs, engaged in a creative process when they made a movie analoguous to a painter or a novelist . It is a dubious concept for sev...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/film-notes-andrew-sarris.html

An extraordinary graphic representation of police violence in the US courtesy of the Cato Institute , with detailed background information about each incident.

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/botched-paramilitary-police-raids.html

UPDATE 2: The implosion of firedoglake continues. TBogg, known for calling a critic of his support for drone strikes a fucking retard and telling that person to blow me without consequences, is ...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/firedoglake-on-life-support-part-2.html

Pham Binh of the The North Star asked me, along with several others, to submit a post about the significance of the success of SYRIZA in Greece. Please go here to read all of the offerings, whic...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/syriza-and-american-left.html

International support for the students and faculty at UC Davis that shut down the US Bank branch on campus : > Sometime in July, in a court in Yolo County, California, eleven > stud...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/international-support-for-uc-davis.html

Over the years, I have been preoccupied with how radicalized people can be effectively organized in this atomized society. Hence, my interest in the demise of labor unions and their self-absorbed...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/firedoglake-on-life-support.html

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a UC Davis student at KDVS 90.3 FM after I had finished my radio show. She told me about how she had lived in the Mission District in San Francisco and observed ...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/06/police-as-expression-of-bourgeois.html

With my wife and son away to visit relatives, I decided to spend the evening watching a movie. After wandering around the local video store (yes, we still have them in Sacramento), I finally sele...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/film-notes-25th-hour.html

UPDATE 2 (9:07PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME): For an easily accessible link to numerous livestreams and ustreams, go here . UPDATE 1 (8:50PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME): Arrests, police clubbing protester...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-nato.html

I posted my thoughts about her and this song , I'm a Rainbow, here on October 23, 2010.

I'm the guy in the blue shirt and charcoal pants, holding my tea from the family operated Fluid on N Street. The introduction states that the liberals and the passives drifted away from the march...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/marching-with-black-bloc-in-sacramento_03.html

Yesterday, I resisted my temptation to engage in activist tourism, and decided to stay in Sacramento for May Day, instead of traveling to Oakland. Oakland is a fine place, no doubt, one that fuse...

http://amleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/marching-with-black-bloc-in-sacramento.html