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Ground Zero - Rich Broderick teaches journalism, serves on the board of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, and sometimes still finds time to write for the TC Daily Planet. 

By the Waters of Babylon: 10 years later

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Author's note: I first posted this a few days after September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, it seems just as relevant today.MORE »

Mubarak and Murdoch: The Arab Spring gives way to the Anglo-American Summer

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Picture it: a pair of aging despots, each in his 80s.

One of them has already witnessed the previously unthinkable unraveling of his evil empire. The other is witnessing the first irreversible steps in the previously unthinkable unraveling of his evil empire.MORE »

Independence Day for Thai Women: The luck of Yingluck Shinawatra

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

On Sunday, July 3 something truly remarkable happened in Thailand. The country woke up a venerable patriarchy and went to bed having elected the first female Prime Minister in the nation's history.
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Red Black and Blue: Anarchists get behind state GOP’s lawsuit

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

A new organization of radicals calling itself the Coalition for Restoring Anarchist Principles has come out with an endorsement of the Minnesota GOP’s lawsuit asking the State Supreme Court to order a shutdown of all Minnesota state government functions in the event that the Minnesota Legislator, controlled by the Republican Party, and DFL Governor Mark Dayton cannot rMORE »

Out of the closet: Michele Bachmann as new American boogeywoman

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Over the past  few weeks as Michele Bachmann’s star has risen in the firmament of GOP presidential hopefuls, I have been reading a flurry of emails, blogs, and Facebook status updates from fellow Minnesotans of a leftish bent decrying Bachmann not only for her extremist ideology but for being “insane” or “crazy.” Last week she was even treated to MORE »

The Recline of the West: striking out at Wat Po

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

A few days ago, I made a trip to Wat Po, a huge complex of Buddhist temples, stupas and learning halls attached to the Royal Palace in the center of Bangkok. I was there not to gain enlightenment, however, but a Thai massage. In the end, I got some of both.MORE »

The Ferry Godfather: a Bangkok misadventure

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

She was a young farang -- or Westerner -- and I could see that she was failing to make herself understood by the  security guard at Bangkok's Thammasat University where I am newly installed as a research fellow.MORE »

Viva la Muerte: Mobs and Power in the US of A

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

In his masterpiece, Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti proposed that one of our primal fears is of unwanted contact with strangers. Out in public places, he observed, to be touch, jostled, even brushed against, can trigger something akin to panic.MORE »

Reflections in a Dark Mirror: GWB and OBL

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Even before the sudden passing of The World’s Most Wanted Man, I was struck by how many parallels there are between the life and crimes, the individual and cultural pathologies, of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.MORE »

The Death of Capitalism: Is Scott Walker helping build a "better world?"

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

After the Great Crash of 1929, Andrew Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America as well as Secretary of the Treasury, gave President Hoover a bit of advice right out of the playbook of laissez-faire capitalism.

Liquidate, liquidate, liquidate.MORE »

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