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Re: How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left
This is THE pattern of government responding to right-wing violence. We could climb this disreputable family tree of legislation back into the 1910s and 20s when KKK and "100% Americanism" violence
This is THE pattern of government responding to right-wing violence. We could climb this disreputable family tree of legislation back into the 1910s and 20s when KKK and "100% Americanism" violence
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Mark Lause
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Re: How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left
The correct link for the article is
https://inthesetimes.com/article/january-6-capitol-riot-trump-anti-protest-left
The correct link for the article is
https://inthesetimes.com/article/january-6-capitol-riot-trump-anti-protest-left
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Alan Ginsberg
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Interview with Frank Chapman, of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) as we start 2022 | Staff | Fight Back!
http://fightbacknews.org/2022/1/11/interview-frank-chapman-national-alliance-against-racist-and-political-repression-naarpr-w
http://fightbacknews.org/2022/1/11/interview-frank-chapman-national-alliance-against-racist-and-political-repression-naarpr-w
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Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
There is a huge difference between the time that Huck Finn was written and Hemingway's era. Even as a child myself in the 1950s (not so very long after Hemingway's book was written), I understood the
There is a huge difference between the time that Huck Finn was written and Hemingway's era. Even as a child myself in the 1950s (not so very long after Hemingway's book was written), I understood the
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John Reimann
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Three important books on race in America for deep winter reading | Len Yannielli | People's World
https://peoplesworld.org/article/three-important-books-on-race-in-america-for-deep-winter-reading/
https://peoplesworld.org/article/three-important-books-on-race-in-america-for-deep-winter-reading/
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Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo
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#13678
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Cuba Shows How to Take Action on Climate Change | Helen Yaffe | Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cuba-climate-change-tarea-vida-environment
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cuba-climate-change-tarea-vida-environment
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Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo
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The I Word
The I Word
On the LIS/MST statement about the popular uprising in Kazakhstan and its silence about Russian imperialism
By Michael Pröbsting, 10 January 2022
The I Word
On the LIS/MST statement about the popular uprising in Kazakhstan and its silence about Russian imperialism
By Michael Pröbsting, 10 January 2022
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RKOB
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How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left
Rather than grapple with the political forces behind the Capitol siege, lawmakers have instead pushed a spate of anti-protests laws across the country.
Rather than grapple with the political forces behind the Capitol siege, lawmakers have instead pushed a spate of anti-protests laws across the country.
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Steven L. Robinson
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Marjorie Cohn: Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates
Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates (truthout.org)
Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates
Despite the
Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates (truthout.org)
Conservatives on Supreme Court Poised to Block Biden’s Vaccine and Mask Mandates
Despite the
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Charles Keener
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
Ismael Reed made a spirited defense for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn some years ago when a sanitized edition was announced:
"Instead of doing a gotcha search on Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,”
Ismael Reed made a spirited defense for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn some years ago when a sanitized edition was announced:
"Instead of doing a gotcha search on Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,”
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Richard Modiano
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Re: [New post] Uncertainty and “trailing clouds of vagueness”
Tat last line is wonderful! It could be right out of Heller's Catch-22!
Tat last line is wonderful! It could be right out of Heller's Catch-22!
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Dave Lindorff
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
I'm with you on this. It seems wrong to me to avoid the term nigger to protect the tender sensibilities of black student readers, if the puspose is to portray the ugly vileness of the racists of the
I'm with you on this. It seems wrong to me to avoid the term nigger to protect the tender sensibilities of black student readers, if the puspose is to portray the ugly vileness of the racists of the
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Dave Lindorff
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[New post] Uncertainty and “trailing clouds of vagueness”
Dear Comrades -- we usually do not need to waste time explaining why bourgeois economics is bullshit but this piece is so beautifully pithy and it has a killer sentence at the end --- very much worth
Dear Comrades -- we usually do not need to waste time explaining why bourgeois economics is bullshit but this piece is so beautifully pithy and it has a killer sentence at the end --- very much worth
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Michael Meeropol
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H-Net Review [H-Early-America]: Johnson on Carté, 'Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History'
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Andrew Stewart
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
In the biography I mentioned they make the case that Hemingway was quite friendly with Fidel Castro. When Ken Burns made his stupid documentary about Vietnam they interviewed a female soldier that
In the biography I mentioned they make the case that Hemingway was quite friendly with Fidel Castro. When Ken Burns made his stupid documentary about Vietnam they interviewed a female soldier that
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Andrew Stewart
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Djokovic's temporary detention shines spotlight on refugees in hotel prison (Green Left)
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/novak-djokovics-temporary-detention-shines-spotlight-refugees-detained-years-hotel-prison
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/park-hotel-asylum-seeker-asks-federa
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/novak-djokovics-temporary-detention-shines-spotlight-refugees-detained-years-hotel-prison
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/park-hotel-asylum-seeker-asks-federa
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Chris Slee
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
I agree with Michael about Huck Finn. It was a brilliant attack on racism made in the language of the people of that time. If I remember correctly, Hemingway's use of the "N" word fit the time and
I agree with Michael about Huck Finn. It was a brilliant attack on racism made in the language of the people of that time. If I remember correctly, Hemingway's use of the "N" word fit the time and
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Anthony Boynton
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Re: set of Dean Baker recommendations
Michael, I have always loved Dean's work. He gets into the nuts and bolts of how talk of a "free" market is a myth and a diversion. His policy recommendations would truly improve life in the US if
Michael, I have always loved Dean's work. He gets into the nuts and bolts of how talk of a "free" market is a myth and a diversion. His policy recommendations would truly improve life in the US if
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gilschaeffer82@...
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
I don't know if the Hemingway usage captures the spirit of the times but I think the language in Huck Finn "works" --- racism is a terrible thing --- and Twain exposes it brilliantly in Huck Finn (the
I don't know if the Hemingway usage captures the spirit of the times but I think the language in Huck Finn "works" --- racism is a terrible thing --- and Twain exposes it brilliantly in Huck Finn (the
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Michael Meeropol
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Re: Hemingway’s Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel | David Masciotra | CrimeReads
Sad to relate when I was young in Ireland there was a publicly displayed color of clothing in Roche's stores Cork "N....Brown". No one did anything about it that I know of.
Sad to relate when I was young in Ireland there was a publicly displayed color of clothing in Roche's stores Cork "N....Brown". No one did anything about it that I know of.
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Donal Deroiste
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