https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/09/false-alarm-by-bjorn-lomborg-apocalypse-never-by-michael-shellenberger-review

https://www.juancole.com/2020/08/protesters-buildings-elections.html

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/popular-uprising-in-lebanon-resign-or-hang/

Here was Hezbollah’s reaction to these massprotests calling on the entire sectarian political elite, all wings of it, to “resignor hang”: “If you want to start a battle against theresistance

Webinar next Thursday with: Ike Nahem —Longtime anti-imperialist and socialist activist. Retired Amtrak Locomotive Engineer, member Teamsters Union and Railroad Workers United. He is active in

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/middleeast/beirut-judgment-day-protests-intl/index.html

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/august/clearing-the-rubble

David Roediger reviews Walter Johnson's book on St. Louis. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/racism-and-capitalism-in-st-louis/

 BOOK REVIEW Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA, by Tony Pecinovsky, New York: International Publishers, 2019, 422 pp., US$19.95 (paperback),

Conversations about the history of policing often focus on the last 400 years, but they can be extended far beyond — all the way to ancient

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/08/trump-scheiner-nursing-homes-covid-19/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935g7p/america-could-have-great-depression-levels-of-homelessness-by-years-end

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kpdyq/the-tenant-uprising-is-here-and-its-fierce

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vaccine-expert-coronavirus-predition_n_5f2e7be5c5b6b9cff7f256ea

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-banged-black-lives-matter-organizers-door-shut-down-his-street-stayed-5-hours-then-left

https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=4181

Opening today as Virtual Cinema is a deliberately understated, black-and-white, art film titled “Song Without a Name” about a potentially explosive theme, the theft of new-born babies in Peru

The Revolutionary Communist Party has gone on an odd journey, writes Eddie Ford. After emerging from the SWP, it has travelled from the Red Front to the Brexit Party - and now the House of

thank you, Louis. Very interesting --- useful pre-emption of types of "trutherism" re 9-11 ....

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/08/07/the-beirut-explosion-is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-is-it-a-faked-video-of-a-missile/