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Blowback

Blowback

We owe the way we know the world to school-masters droning over the map of the day, blurbing stories of how e…

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Democracy, Literacy and Authoritarianism

Democracy, Literacy and Authoritarianism

Securing voting rights is crucial, but is that enough? The voting rights legislation that's apparently now do…

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The Unmaking of the President, 2020

The Unmaking of the President, 2020

Appearing originally in CounterPunch, Huffpost, ICH, and AMASS Magazine, the opinion-editorial essays in this…

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Imperial Blowback...

Imperial Blowback...

John O'Kane Chalmers Johnson's notion of "blowback" is crucial for understanding the crisis in Ukraine. In hi…

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Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet

Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet

Storylandia 46: A Venice Quintet [O'Kane, John, Mayerson, Ginger, Marcus, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping…

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Amass Magazine | The Archives

Amass Magazine | The Archives

Welcome to Amass Magazine. Here, you can view our archived issues in a handy, PDF reader format. You can also…

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History Running Absurd

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By John O'Kane
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In a recent essay for The Atlantic, “History is Running Backwards,” David Brooks argues that ever-more people are disillusioned by the moral chaos and uncertainty that characterizes our society. They believe there is no hope for the future if progress no longer provides rational answers to the issues that matter.
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Transcending the Trump Obsession

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By John O'Kane
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Image by Darren Halstead. As the Trump administration bulls into its second year, we await a movement that will aggressively challenge and potentially replace it. What we have now is a promising prelude to one in the guise of the anti-ICE protests and the No Kings rallies (Bernie Sanders’ Fighting Oligarchy tour was an influential catalyst). These are essentially pop-up, short-lived events, snuffed by the Epstein files but recharged by the Iran War.
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Distant conflict, local impact: construction contract entitlements in the wake of the Iran conflict

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By John O'Kane
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‘Rise and Fall’, ‘Fluctuation’ or ‘Cost Escalation’ Under most unamended standard form lump sum contracts (including those in the Australian Standard suite of contracts such as AS2124, AS4000, AS4300 and AS4902), the contract price is generally fixed at the date of contract, with the risk of cost escalation borne by the contractor.
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