Newtopia | Issue #13 - Sept/Oct 2003: "Populism"

Featuring "Populisms of the New Civil War," poetry by Ronnie Pontiac.

The conservative agenda today is as it ever was, based around a cheap-labor political and economic theory that is the same basic brand of Social Darwinism Imperialists practiced a hundred years ago.

American liberalism today consists mostly of a set of esoteric idées fixes that disable it from responding in vigorous ways to the destruction of constitutional freedoms and the hijacking of political discourse by a committed band of reactionaries.

The basic tenets of the Green Party follow those that used to be fought for by the Democratic Party. But since the advent of the "New Democrats", created and proliferated in the 1990's by Bill Clinton and his Democratic Leadership Council, many of the more "liberal" concerns of traditional Democrats have been forsaken in favor of a shift towards the Center.

The Atavistic sagas on The Slave-Freedom-Refugee Coast were flagged off by hostilities between the indigenous African tribes and the new Americo-Liberian settlers. Black did not see Black in Black.

With the globalization of media and markets in full bloom, America is beginning to see the outlines of yet another out-migration of American jobs. Unlike the earlier shift of manufacturing jobs to Taiwan and less developed East Asian countries, the latest round of losses will have dramatic, some say devastating, impacts on America's economic wealth and well-being.

Populist Street Theatre in NYC, Chicago, and Toronto. Reports from three who were there.

A Populist Uprising Shakes the State

What does it mean when a President or other leader declares that America is a "Christian Nation?" Do they mean that we are a nation of Christians (as a demographic), a nation based on Christian values, or do they mean that Christianity is the religion of the state?

Human beings are the sum total of their cells. And when we group together around unifying ideas and causes, such as populist ideas, we are the cells that total up to a larger body - the body of the ideological movement.

An accolade to Jesse Owens, the legendary Olympian - American first; black, next - on his 90th Birth Anniversary: September 12.

The new paradigm is what White America fears most: multicultural populism in the 21st century and beyond. Power to the red, white, blue, and now the black, brown and yellow too.

The Thorny Issue of Race in Post-Modern America.

An interview with Danny Goldberg, Author, Activist, and former Chief of Atlantic Records.

A close-minded, intolerant view of the world is a fanaticism not any less destructive than that which drove Al Qaeda to crash two jet planes into the World Trade Center towers.

William Jennings Bryan and the Heart of Populism

Ever struggling to define a "Canadian identity", being Canadian today is by and large a mere geographical attribute.

The streamline view of American Protestantism has led to countless sproutings of new forms of protestantism, and even new religions. One common and shared theme in this religious tendency is to focus on putting one's religious decisions into their own hands.

Meetup.com and the intersection of politics and digital community-building.

XIII. - OLIVE TREES?

4. - Framing the Illinois Creative Economy
Over One Third of the Prairie State's Employed Are Creatives!

DEMOGRAPHIC NATIONAL CONFESSION
by Ronnie Pontiac

Rant
by Diane di Prima

Fiction

Fiction

Fictionesque

Senior Advisor intimately recounts life during The Clinton Wars. A review of Sidney Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars

A Review of The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition. From Akashic Books, Edited by Joel Schalit, author of Jerusalem Calling.

A review of Arno Karlen's, Man and Microbes.

Poetry Publishing & Postmodern Populism.

Cultural news and scenes from across America.

A review of Thomas Nola's Jack

Dirty Pretty Things

The Guerrilla Poster art of Robbie Conal.

The diary entries of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King after his visit to Nazi Germany.

Tamra Spivey Interviews Jean Smith.

A Society Floating Into Oblivion.