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

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

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

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

(Posted to FB by Jairus Banaji) Langston Hughes (1901–1967). Where solidarity begins. When hauled up for interrogation by Roy Cohn (McCarthy’s chief counsel), one of the several bits of testimony

The Jacobin Enlightenment, by Doug Greene and Harrison Fluss Jacobinism was not a betrayal of the Radical Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It was a historically necessary effort to defend

NY Times, August 9, 2020 Lorenzo Wilson Milam, Guru of Community Radio, Is Dead at 86 He helped start noncommercial stations in the 1960s and

NY Times, August 9, 2020 Diana Russell, Who Studied Violence Against Women, Dies at 81 She popularized the term “femicide,” to highlight

NY Times, August 9, 2020 Lifestyles of the Rich and Reckless: Posh Pandemic Parties Because money appears to be one of the best protections

NY Times Op-ed, August 9, 2020 A Song That Changed Music Forever 100 years ago, Mamie Smith recorded a seminal blues hit that gave

A Collection of Primary Sources Updated National Security Archive Posting Marks75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World WarII Extensive Compilation of Primary Source

For those with both a strong stomach and an interest in the ongoing “cancel culture” debate, you might want to check out the podcast of Bill Maher’s chat with Thomas

It's about time. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/509988-democrat-kai-kahele-wins-hawaii-primary-to-replace-tulsi-gabbard

this is one of the finest collections of primary source material on the A-bomb I've ever seen gathered in one place. I think it's quite good and will feed, interestingly, the "orthodox" version (that

Trump’s Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs Jack Rasmus, August 9, 2020 https://jackrasmus.com/ . . . "Upon close inspection the EOs are therefore mostly smoke and mirrors, designed to produce

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and holiday time in the year of the COVID. So it’s an opportunity to review a few economics books published this year (but written

Our intrepid investigative reporter Max Blumenthal exposes an American named Brian Kern who is pretending to be a Chinese activist in Hong Kong opposed to Chinese

On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a huge mass parade, estimated at 17,000 to 20,000 by the police but over a million by some exuberant adherents. Many

I think if Biden wins the vote, the ruling class (through the military -- Trump's "deep state") will figure out a way to make Trumpleave. Maybe Biden will promise not to prosecute him (and maybe NY AG

By Paul Buhle. https://progressive.org/dispatches/learn-from-cuba-health-care-buhle-200806/