NY Times, August 7, 2020 A Family Cries ‘Justice for Hannah.’ Will Its Rural Town Listen? People in rural areas are killed in police shootings at about the same rate as in cities, but victims’

NY Times, August 7, 2020 ‘Racism Is Pervasive and Systemic’ at Canada’s Museum of Human Rights, Report Says Even before it opened in 2014, the museum was dogged by controversy. Now, after

NY Times, August 7, 2020 Eric Bentley, Critic Who Preferred Brecht to Broadway, Dies at 103 Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had

Among my favorite writers, Harvey Pekar and Charles Bukowski share an uncommon distinction. Despite having lowly jobs as a Cleveland veterans hospital file clerk and sorting mail in the post office,

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 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),

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

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

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

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