We’ve decided to read and discuss the book:
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
by Vincent Bevins
On March 17 we will be discussing Chapters 12 and 13
Contact alt.banking.ows@gmail.com for info.
Current posts (March 10 – March 16, 2024)
- A Symphony of Resistance [Arab “Spring”] (podcast)
- In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep (podcast)
- Keep Eyes on Sudan (text)
- Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech AutomatThis ‘cringy’ term is helping defeat the tampon taxion, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work (podcast curation)
- Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law (Text)
- Mathbabe is back: Google’s mistake with Gemini (text)
Tampon Tax update (Text)
Gift link for referenced article: This ‘cringy’ term is helping defeat the tampon tax (text)
March 3 to March 9, 2024
- Thomas Sowell Is a Cynical Man (text)
- Support Sudan’s Revolution, Not an Elite Peace Deal (text)
- What “Project 2025” Would Do to America (text)
- What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (text)
- NY Times Hired Fake Journalists To Spread Hamas R@pe Lies On FRONT PAGE! (video)
- U.S. military to set up port on Gaza coast (video)
- Irish senator says her ‘blood boils’ after hearing Israeli justifications for Gaza deaths (video)
- Fact Check: ISRAEL Uses Human Shields, not Hamas (video)
- Shocking CNN Report Puts Israel To Shame (video)
- Palestinian protesters standing strong against Jewish Defence League in Paris (video)
- Trump FINALLY Comments On Gaza & It’s Bad | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
- CNN’s Amanpour FED UP With Netanyahu Advisor’s Flour Massacre Lies (video)
- Werner Herzog saw the first 30 minutes of Barbie, declares them “sheer hell” (video)
Feb. 25 to March 2, 2024
- Support Sudan’s Revolution, Not an Elite Peace Deal (text)
- Toolkit: Defend Haitian Self-Determination After 20 Years of US/UN Coup + Occupation!
- San Quentin News (web site)
- What “Project 2025” Would Do to America (text)
- What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (text)
- Follow-ups on last week’s discussions
- Should Biden drop out
- Ezra Klein argument for Biden to drop out (podcast/transcript)
- Here’s how an open Democratic convention could work (podcast/transcript)
- Q&A If you are going to pick one thing, this discusses pros and cons
- Argument against Biden dropping out Joan Walsh in The Nation (text)
- The “Graying Population” Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security (podcast) (the first 33 minutes are a critique of media/political commentary, an expert comes on at 34:00 to discuss forward-looking prospects for Social Security)
- Should Biden drop out
Feb. 18 – Feb. 24, 2024
- The “Acceleration” of the New Reich (text)
- More than 1 in 10 people in Japan are aged 80 or over. Here’s how its ageing population is reshaping the country (text)
- Namibia: ‘Germany first to commit genocide against us, genocide against Palestinians must not be ignored’ (text)
- Lawsuit Accuses German Leaders of Complicity in Gaza Genocide (text)
- In 2021, Amnesty International stripped Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status (text)
- I’m the Mayor of Dearborn, MI, and My City Feels Betrayed (text)
You can tell the NY Times you support publication of this letter, or express any other opinions, by writing letters@nytimes.com
Feb. 11 – Feb. 17, 2024
- Illusions of Safety by Mariame Kaba (text)
- Why we have to talk about Zionism (video with transcript)
- Nakba Peace (text)
- Rebirth of the U.S. Labor Movement? (text)
- The Politics of Cruelty (text)
- Disillusioned” Author: American Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme (video)
- Prison Radio: Mumia Abu-Jamal (audio and text)
Feb. 4 – Feb. 10, 2024
- Housing solutions
- Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (text)
- Marjorie Kelly on the Capitalism Crisis: “Wealth Supremacy” is Killing Us (podcast)
- ‘Hell No’: Trump Allies’ Plan to Privatize Medicare Draws Alarm and Outrage (text)
- Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond Trump (text)
- Biden & Netanyahu React To ICJ: ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (Genocide Remix)’ (Video: May be inappropriate for some viewers)
- Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds (text)
- The Israel Project’s 2009 GLOBAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY (text)
- Students on hunger strike call for Brown University to divest from pro-Israel companies (text)
- Inside Meta, a debate over when the word ‘Zionist’ is hate speech (text)
- Readings on El Salvador:
- El Salvador’s Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage, Nelson Rauda, NYT
- Behind Bukele’s Revolution, Juan Rojas & Geoff Shullenberger, Compact
- On Security, Bukele and Petro Have a Problem in Common, Juan Rojas, Americas Quarterly
- In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties, Nelson Rauda, LA Times
- The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President, Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker
- Chaos in Ecuador, Guillaume Long, Sidecar/NLR
- ¡Viva la ‘eficracia’!, Martin Caparrós, El País
January 28 to February 3, 2024
- China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output (text/video)
- ICJ Israel decision: A new world order in the making
- Jeffrey D. Sachs – Israel cannot hide from the International Court of Justice
(text) (video) - SPEECH: Haiti: A Black Revolution Will Repeat Itself, 1966 (text)
- Negroes Steppin’ and Fetchin’ for Imperialism (text)
- Russia warns Niger as Africa rises in BRICS, G20 (video)
- Capitalism, Apathy and the Rise of Authoritarianism (podcast)
- “The World is Watching”: Witnesses Report Kenneth Smith Appeared Conscious, “Shook and Writhed” During First-Ever Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution (text)
- Why the world’s biggest EV maker is getting into shipping (text)
Note: when it asks about cookie settings, click “reject all cookies”. Default OKs sale of personal data. This is probably true on many sites but they are unusually clear about it. - Haiti Government Still Hopeful After Ruling Against Kenya Support Mission
- What is ECOWAS and why have 3 coup-hit nations quit the West Africa bloc?
- Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from ECOWAS, accusing Bloc of ‘Inhumane’ Sanctions
January 21 to January 27, 2024
- America and Iran step closer to the brink of wars (text)
- Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism‘ (text)
- International Coalition To Stop Genocide In Palestine Welcomes World Court’s Order (text)
- High school journalists are fighting back against censorship (text)
- Kenyans Protest Their Government’s Participation in the Latest Haiti Occupation (audio)
January 14 to January 20, 2024
- People’s Forum did a screening of the International Court of Justice proceedings.
If you are not up to watching the entire screening, you might want to watch Craig Mokhiber’s excellent, opening presentation.- https://www.youtube.com/live/aQkE4VtkWdo?si=OFDl2aVTOFd8jzqG
Also, you can download pdfs of both days’ presentations at the ICJ from the UN’s website.
https://www.icj-cij.org/index.php/case/192
- https://www.youtube.com/live/aQkE4VtkWdo?si=OFDl2aVTOFd8jzqG
- Inequality Inc.How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action (text)
- Reformist Arevalo sworn in as Guatemala president after opponents delay inauguration (text)
- Michael Hudson: US imperialism, Krugman, de-dollarization, socialism, Palestine, China (video)
- The Eric Adams Table of Success (web site)
- Harry Belafonte speaking to Congressional Black Caucus in 2005 (video clip)
January 7 to January 13, 2024
- Elon Musk’s Odious One-Man War Against Labor Law Just May Succeed (text)
Note: Musk is odious and may be leading it, but it is by no means a “one-man” war. - San Quentin News (web site)
- U.S. launches new strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as conflict escalates (text)
Who are the Houthis? A simple guide to the Yemeni group (text) - Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time (podcast)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Three Evils of Society (speech): War, Racism and Poverty
Beyond Vietnam (transcript and audio)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Jan. 1, 2024 – Jan. 6, 2024
- John Pilger, campaigning journalist, dies aged 84
Celebrated Australian journalist and documentary film-maker covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Biafra - How Yemen changed everything (text)
- This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City (text)
- Proposed Baltimore police and fire training facility has hefty price tag: $330 million (text)
- Why Is Nobody Talking About the [Nashville} Law Enforcement Training Academy? (text)
- A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins (text)
- “All Static and Noise” is an anti-China propaganda film about the Uyghurs (text)
Past Years’ Posts:
Jan. – Dec. 2020
July – Dec. 2019
Jan. – June 2019
July – Dec. 2018
Jan. – June 2018
July – Dec. 2017
Jan. – June 2017
July – Dec. 2016
Jan. – June 2016