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It’s hard to pinpoint what’s the most shocking thing about Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas. I’ll start with this: there’s nothing all that ground-breaking about it. Happens all the ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/fort-hood-massacre-a-brief-history-of-american-violence/

Ames emailed me a New York Times blog post from last February by one Casey B. Mulligan–which may sound like a fictional baseball player’s name, but no, he’s real all right, just another in a long line of insane econ professors from ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/more-proof-that-chicago-school-freemarket-economics-is-nothing-more-than-scientology-for-east-coast-rich-fucks/

“Polidori once asked Byron what, besides scribble verses, he could do better than Polidori himself. Byron icily replied: ‘Three things. First, I can hit with a pistol the keyhole of that door. Secondly, I can swim across that river to ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/lord-byron-the-exiles-patron-saint/

Antiwar.com Radio’s Scott Horton takes time out from global issues to talk with Mark Ames on the battle on the home front: the American economy. Horton is a Libertarian and Ames definitely isn’t, so some sparks fly before the two ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/radio-crossfire-antiwarcoms-scott-horton-interviews-mark-ames-about-libertarians-socialists-ayn-rand-billionaire-parasites/

Mark Ames talks with Ian Masters of Los Angeles radio station KPFK 90.7 about the billionaires who are plundering Alabama and the rest of America, and what can be done to stop it.

Read the article about the billionaire war on ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/radio-interview-mark-ames-talks-with-ian-masters-about-the-billionaire-plunder-in-alabama/

MONTERREY, MEXICO — Another day, another shootout. Forget about the tropical storm that hit the Pacific just now, it’s raining bullets in this biatch.

It seems that every day there is another firefight in this or that part of the city, and frankly ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/mexican-drug-war-the-narco-welfare-state-drug-cartels-take-care-of-their-soldiers-better-than-the-government/

I finally got around to seeing Paranormal Activity, the low-budget ghost movie that’s making so much money. It’s spinning through the predictable cycle already charted by The Blair Witch Project ten years ago:

1) early fan buzz and glowing reviews, followed ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/paranormal-activity-small-cheap-good/

This article was first published in The eXile on June 8, 2000, issue 92.

How can we best promote world peace? As always, Thomas Friedman has a stunningly original answer: by building more McDonald’s. Here’s Friedman’s “Golden Arches Theory of ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/thomas-friedman-the-empires-useful-idiot-an-exile-classic/

This article was first published in Alternet.

Editor’s Note: The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall Street’s pockets is illustrated vividly in Mark Ames’ article below, which covers some very disturbing recent events in Alabama, where billionaires and banks are ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/as-the-billionaires-plunder-alabama-us-troops-occupy-townsillegally/

Just when you thought you’d seen all the health-insurance evil possible, now comes another shocker: a UnitedHealth subsidiary in Colorado denied coverage to Peggy Robertson, mother of two, because she wasn’t sterilized after her caesarian-section delivery procedure, according to a letter made ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/get-sterilized-or-die-fertile-wombs-also-a-pre-existing-condition/