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“Trump Welcomes Immigrants, but Only if They Can Be Exploited” — David Wilson via Truthout

February 20, 2024

The US mainstream media had two competing events to cover the night of April 28: the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, and a Trump rally in Macomb County, Michigan, a predominantly white working-class suburb of Detroit. Journalists mainly focused on the dinner, but the more important story may have been a remark President Trump made in the course of his 80-minute speech at the rally...

Michael Tigar on Law & Disorder Radio: “We have a Department that calls itself ‘Justice,’ but we know exactly what it’s doing…”

February 20, 2024

Internationally renowned human rights attorney Michael Tigar, author of the forthcoming Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power, talks to Law & Disorder host Michael Steven Smith and attorney Jim Lafferty about the growth of the national security state and the (further) decline of justice.

“Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism” — Counterpunch considers The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

I had high hopes for Gerald Horne’s The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism for a couple of reasons…. ¶ My hopes were not only met, they were exceeded. Horne has written both a scholarly treatment enriched by primary sources excavated from archives three hundred years old but also a fierce polemic that hearkens back to those of CLR James and WEB Dubois….

Gerald Horne via Truthout: “Fighting Fascism & White Supremacy by Understanding History”

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne: … I think that particularly with regard to students of African descent (but not exclusively students of African descent), it’s very important for them not to see Black people only in the role of slaves…. One of the many scandals of historiography in the United States is not dealing with that history, which I think leads to a misimpression that the slave population was inert, or as … Kanye West said, 400 years of slavery is “a choice.” Basically, I mean that kind of opinion comes clearly from this idea of presenting enslaved people as passive…”

New! India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History

February 20, 2024

Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance?

September 17: Howard Waitzkin comes to Portland, Maine with Health Care Under the Knife

February 20, 2024

As a lifelong activist, Howard Waitzkin has worked for single-payer national health programs in the United States and Latin America; local community and worker control for accessible health services; civilian health and mental health services for active duty military personnel in the struggle for peace; and policies to improve the social, political, and economic determinants of illness and early death....

Gerald Horne discusses The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism on podcast Last Born in the Wilderness

February 20, 2024

Patrick Farnsworth, host of Last Born in the Wilderness, a weekly podcast, talks to author and historian Gerald Horne about his recent book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear

February 20, 2024

Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The first Cold War was a tragedy. The new Cold War is playing out as a dangerous farce. That’s the thesis of Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano in The Russians are Coming, Again. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou speak with Kuzmarov, author and assistant professor of American history at the University of Tulsa.

Howard Waitzkin talks with Bill Ayers about Health Care Under the Knife … and so much more

February 20, 2024

On April 17, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, came to Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore to take part in a Fresh Ayers discussion about capitalism and the health care crisis with the eponymous Bill Ayers

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

February 20, 2024

David G. Legge is a teacher and international health policy researcher, based at La Trobe School of Public Health in Melbourne, Australia, who is also active in the global People’s Health Movement. Recently, he wrote a review of four books for the journal Critical Public Health. Three of these books, Health Care Under the Knife; A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism; and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, were published by Monthly Review Press.