If any of you catch me making a fool of myself in the next 10 years or so, contact Les Schaffer. Also contact my wife who has been instructed to get me started on jigsaw puzzles.

I think it's the same old has-been donkey.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-could-rebellion-ranks-signal-end-maduro

Fuck Noam Chomsky and the horse he rode in on. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/20/chomsky-opcw-cover-up-of-probe-undermining-us-led-bombing-of-syria-is-shocking/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/19/the-war-on-cuba-and-venezuela

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-could-rebellion-ranks-signal-end-maduro

I wouldn't call it genocide but I would call it forced assimilation. It's what Britain did all through its colonies. It's also what Canada did to its native peoples. In the USA, it was plain-vanilla

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The applicability of terms such as “genocide” and “slavery” can be debated “ . Unfortunately, can hardly be debated that with such a ludicrous sentence this letter loses any credibility.

Although it is far from certain, especially with Barrett set to descend to the Supreme Court, it now seems more likely than not that Biden will be the next president. Here is a review of how we got

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I read that article -- it is really well reasoned. What the article doesn't mention is that the so-called "Great Barrington Declaration" was the result of a meeting financed by the Koch Brothers ---

AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO, 2020-10-20

What Fans of ‘Herd Immunity’ Don’t Tell You A proposal to let people with low risk of infection live without constraint could lead to a million or more preventable deaths.

Good letter. China's human rights offenses, from Uighur repression in Xinjiang to organ harvesting of prisoner is abominable and beyond any justification. That said, we in the U.S. are not in a good

From the NYT article below. Note the mention of Harvard's Martin Kulldorff. He and another "herd immunity" advocate were featured in a Jacobin interview: The declaration

Overlooked No More: Eleanor Flexner, Pioneering Feminist in an Anti-Feminist Age “Century of Struggle,” her 1959 history of the women’s rights movement, uncovered

Always good information from Hunziker. However, he makes this case: It's certainly easy to make the case that IPCC scientists are slackers, and that leadership failed to stand up

The Nation, NOVEMBER 2/9, 2020, ISSUE The Metamorphosis: The making of the unequal city. By Kim Phillips-Fein As the coronavirus ricocheted through New York City this spring, among its many

Ghostly analogies drawn from the gothic imaginary are common in the Marxist canon, with the most famous case in point being the incipit of Marx and Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist