Publications – 2011-2010

2011

• The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.

• TV Wars, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.

• Salons:  A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country, AlterNet, May 8, 2011.
• Its Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms,AlterNet, May 11, 2011.

• The Big Squeeze, AlterNet, May 19, 2011.

• Points of Moral Friction:  When Classes Confront Each Other, Brooklyn Rail, May  2011.

• Arnold’s Decade of Deceit:  Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.

• AT&T  and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?, Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 201

• Pessimism, USA: Living While Holding Your Breath. CounterPunch, June 10-12, 2011.
• Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism. CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.
• The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.

• Shill R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.

• America’s Tahrir Square: The Lessons of the Bonus Army. CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2011.
• The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be. AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
• AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable. CounterPunch, July 8-10, 2011.
• Questions Plague Bachman:  Playing the New Political Shell Game.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
• Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today’s Mass Nonviolent Protests? AlterNet, July 27, 2011.

• The Pledge Plague:  The Cheap Price of Virtue.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.

• Praying for Votes:  The New Way to Buy an Election.  CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.

• One Nation, Under God:  The World According to Pastor Rich.  CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.

• Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power.ANDmgazine, August 2011,

• Drugged Out America: The Failed War on Drugs.  CounterPunch.  September 2, 2011 .
• The Politics of Fashion. ANDmagazine,  September  2011. 
• Least We Forget: Illegal Arrests During Period of National Crisis.  CounterPunch, September 10-11, 2011.

• Decline or Restructuring?: Welcome to the Post-Modern Gilded Age.  CounterPunch.  September 17-18, 2011.
• 5 Takeaways from the IPF’s Independent Film Market.  DocumentaryTelevision, September 25,  2011.
• American Vengeance:  The Roots of Social Terror.  CounterPunch,  September 30-October 1, 2011.
• The 1920s:  The Good Times?,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
• Are You What You Wear?:  The Politics of Fashion,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
• The Great Fear is Democracy:  Will Bloomburg Pull the Plug on Occupy Wall Street?  CounterPunch,  October 7-9, 2011.
• “End Regulation Now”:  Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare,  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
• The Politics of Obesity: The Fattening of the Nation.  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
• America’s Illegal Drug Complex:  Another Capitalist Racket.  CounterPunch,  November 11-13, 2011.
• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
• Sex, Scandals & Cover-Ups:  Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall.  CounterPunch,  November 15, 2011.
• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future.  AlterNet,  November 18, 2011.
• How I Got Scammed:  A Schmuck is Born Everyday.   CounterPunch,  December 2-4, 2011.
• The Gathering Storm: Austerity & Social Unrest.  CounterPunch,  December 9-10, 2011.
• State Crime & Villainy:  Eugenics in America.  CounterPunch,  December 16-18, 2011.
• Shame of the Nation:  Sexual Violence in America.  CounterPunch,  December 23-25, 2011.
• Social Television Summit: Five Takeaways for Factual TV,  December 28, 2011.
• Are You Being Tracked?:  8 Ways Your Privacy is Being Eroded Online and Off.  AlterNet,  December 28, 2011.

• Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2011.
• A New Dark Ages:  Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2011.

• Cyber Wars 2.0, Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.

• How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.

• The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
• Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.

• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?, AlterNet, February 23, 2011

• Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC’s Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America, AlterNet, February 22, 2011.

• Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.

• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.

• Bottoms-Up American History; book review of  Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States, Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.
• America’s Moral Crisis:  The Return to Social Darwinism, CounterPunch, January 28-30, 2011.

• Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?, AlterNet, January 20, 2011.

• The Myth of American Primacy: Just How Exceptional is the US?, CounterPunch, January 7-9, 2011.
• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.


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• December 2011: You Should be Paranoid
• December 2011: Your TV Future
• December 2011: The Shell Game
• November 2011: The IP Wars
• November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
• November 2011: The AT&T Merger Update
• October 2011:  The IFP Market
• September 2011:Remembering 9/11
• August 2011:  The Big Squeeze

2010

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
• The New Morality Police:  The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
• The GOP in Freewill?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.
• Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2, 2010.
• Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
• Obama’s Rwanda?:  Halt the Slaughter in the Congo Now, No Apologies Later, CounterPunch, May 2, 2010.
• Come Out George, Come Out!: Scandal Again Rocks the Christian Right, AlterNet, May 9, 2010.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Or Why Aunt Ethel Hung-up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28, 2010.
• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1929s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
• Blood on the Floor:  The Mounting Social Crisis & the Fate of the Working Class, CounterPunch, August 8, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 1:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 13, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 2:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20-22, 2010.
• End of “the American Century”?:  Suffering the New Normal, CounterPunch, September 10, 2010.
• Tea Party Panic:  The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 2010.
• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off. AlterNet, October 6, 2010.
• The Sexy Sisters:  Tea Party Infatuation with the “New” Republican Woman, CounterPunch, October 15, 2010.
• Conservatives’ Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols, AlterNet, October 15, 2010.
• Class War in America:  The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name, CounterPunch, October 29-31, 2010.
• Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe — Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?, AlterNet, November 1, 2010.
• Class War Redux:  The Tea Party Congress and Likely Return to Social Purity, CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.