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Welcome to Technofeudalism ❧ Current Affairs
1+ week, 55+ min ago —...Economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has... ...Economist Yanis Varoufakis, in an excerpt from his new book, explains... ...Rosa Luxemburg’s devastating question “Socialism or barbarism?”... ..., life ended up sooner or later resembling a cross between George Orwell...
Palestine Protests are a Test of Whether This is a Free Country ❧ Current Affairs
1+ week ago —...Congress to be involved with, the university president in question—Minouche... ...Shafik of Columbia University—groveled and promised to do better... ...She condemned Columbia Middle East Studies professor Joseph Massad... ...Before her testimony, Shafik wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal...
What Jane McAlevey Has Taught Us ❧ Current Affairs
1+ week ago —...The veteran labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey recently announced... ...The labor organizer and writer is approaching the end of her life... ...McAlevey’s writing is mostly strategic and programmatic, but she... ...McAlevey’s work combines stirring, urgent exhortations with detailed...
What Everyone Should Know About the ‘Security Dilemma’ ❧ Current Affairs
1+ week ago —...It is, as Chinese political scientist Shiping Tang explains, “one... ...States did not intend to attack the Soviet Union.... ...In the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan began talking about the...
What ‘Tintin’ Tells Us About Imperialism ❧ Current Affairs
1+ week ago —...anthropologist David Graeber argues that superhero comics are essentially... ...In his examination of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, the late... ...Charles de Gaulle called Tintin his “only international rival,” and... ...when I lived in Brussels, people spoke of Hergé as their own Walt...
The Case for Puerto Rican Independence ❧ Current Affairs
3+ week ago —...That includes the 3.2 million people of Puerto Rico who are both... ...citizens—and colonial subjects—of the United States.... ...and the Puerto Rico Center for Investigative Journalism.... ...The United States has long exploited Puerto Rico....
Israel’s Propaganda Machine is Filling the Internet with Misinformation ❧ Current Affairs
3+ week ago —...Online, things like Owen Jones’s video “Israel is Guilty of Terrorism... ...If you’re a supporter of Israel and its horrifying assault on Gaza... ...Critics like Noam Chomsky, meanwhile, have described hasbara more... ...The online Hasbara Machine is sophisticated indeed, and its existence...
What Trump Understands About War ❧ Current Affairs
3+ week ago —...Donald Trump’s militarism is even worse than Biden’s.... ...In the 2016 election cycle, Donald Trump surprised some commentators... ...In the general election, Trump attacked Hillary Clinton over her... ...Donald Trump is not anti-war or anti-imperialist....
Why the Right Constantly Panics Over Societal ‘Decadence’ ❧ Current Affairs
3+ week ago —...The schoolteacher’s name was Oswald Spengler, and the book was his... ...Spengler’s thesis was that Western civilization is the victim of... ...Florida Senator Marco Rubio wrote a similar book aimed at a more... ...philosopher Alexander Dugin, portrays Russia as a last bastion of...