(I never put much stock into the whole Russiagate interference in the 2016 election story, especially as promoted by Rachel Maddow. However, I was always troubled by how so many "anti-imperialist" web

Paul Buhle review. https://comicsgrinder.com/2020/08/11/review-constitution-illustrated-by-r-sikoryak/

Something I've been advocating for a few years: eating grass fed/grass-finished beef for a host of political, health and environmental issues. Such beef is MORE not less expensive. But if it means we

https://louisproyect.org/2020/08/12/how-leftist-conspiracy-mongers-ended-up-on-the-side-of-the-barricade-as-the-alt-right/

Communist Party (PCUSA) will be on the ballot for the first time since Gus Hall and Angela Davis in 1984. Read more: http://www.idcommunism.com/2020/08/meet-christopher-helali-communist-from-vermont-w

NY Times, August 12, 2020 Luxury Homes Tie Chinese Communist Elite to Hong Kong’s Fate Three top leaders of China’s Communist Party have relatives who own assets in Hong Kong, including more than $51

NY Times, August 12, 2020 SCREENLAND The Fandom Around R.B.G. Is Out of Step With Reality Credit...Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban By Amanda Hess Aug. 12, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET 1 When Justice R

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/10/trans-rights-feminist-letter-rebecca-solnit

The filmmaker reflects on a unique moment in history, and the opportunities it presents social justice-minded artists. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/charles-burnett-filmmaking-improve-lives-123457

Gerald Horne, of course. https://peoplesworld.org/article/radical-historian-challenges-traditional-marxist-view-of-so-called-american-revolution/

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Fear of a Black Uprising Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing The New Republic Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw/August 13, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY KAYLA SALISBURY The summer of 2020 wil

Thomas Chatterton Williams identifies strongly with an author who rejected the term African-American. He said he was "only an American". https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/selected-letters-ralph-ellis

https://truthout.org/articles/economic-justice-is-necessary-to-stop-murders-of-trans-women-of-color/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/13/just-comes-right-out-and-says-it-trump-declares-postal-service-cant-handle-mail

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/13/modeling-showed-potential-deaths-georgia-tech-without-masks-and-other-mitigation

An accident is something that cannot be foreseen, where there is no human agency responsible for what has taken place. The explosion in Beirut on 4 August was not an accident. The highly flammable car

Trump’s favorite young power couple—after Jared and Ivanka and Don Jr. and Kimberly, that is—have carved out a special place in the administration for their rhetoric and ideology. https://www.vanityfa

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/11/is-trump-destroying-social-security-and-medicare-by-accident--or-on-purpose/

https://nader.org/2020/07/31/ralph-nader-letter-to-aoc/