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

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

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(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 Hugh

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 both

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 ’70s, offering an eclectic mix of music and talk. His goal

NY Times, August 9, 2020 Diana Russell, Who Studied Violence Against Women, Dies at 81 She popularized the term “femicide,” to highlight the killing of women “because they are women” and to distinguis

NY Times, August 9, 2020 Lifestyles of the Rich and Reckless: Posh Pandemic Parties Because money appears to be one of the best protections against the coronavirus, why not party like it’s 2019? A “dr

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 voice to outrage at violence against Black Americans. By David Hajdu

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 Chatterton Williams and Bari Weiss

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

A Collection of Primary Sources Updated National Security Archive Posting Marks 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World War II Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Doc

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 before the pandemic and the Gr

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 intervention: https://thegrayzone.com

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 or most politicians, m

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

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Bruce Bartlett/August 10, 2020 The New Republic The Christian Devotion to a White America Republicans like Tom Cotton gloss over the religion’s role in establishing slavery and perpetuating white supr