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No More Compromises: We Need Immigration Amnesty Now: David Wilson via Truthout

February 20, 1918

In mid-April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out a six-day operation in the New York metropolitan area, detaining a total of 225 people. ¶ One month later, a young US citizen named Augustina stood in Manhattan’s Foley Square, a few hundred feet from ICE’s regional headquarters, and told a crowd of journalists and supporters how the series of raids—code-named ‘Operation Keep Safe’—had impacted her and her family....

Gerald Coles and Sasha Lilley discuss why better education doesn’t lead to better jobs…

February 20, 1909

What if more education doesn’t lead to more highly paid, skilled jobs? Gerald Coles, educational psychologist and author of Miseducating for the Global Economy, talks with Sasha Lilley of Against the Grain (94.1 KPFA) about our twenty-first-century global economy—and what corporations are doing to prevent our learning about it.

NEW! The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney

February 20, 1787

The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement, poverty has increased, and the trend toward more inequality of incomes and wealth has continued. It appears that the Great Recession has given way to a period of long-term anemic growth, which Foster and McChesney aptly term the Great Stagnation.

Imperialism in the 21st Century reviewed by Science & Society

February 20, 1729

Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis
384 pp, $28 pbk, ISBN 9781583675779
By John Smith
Reviewed by J. Z. Garrod in Science and Society, pp 148-51, vol. 82, no. 1, January 2018

The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism reviewed in Sacramento News & Review

February 20, 1681

Michael Perelman, economics professor at CSU Chico, uses the Greek legend of Procrustes, who sadistically shortened or stretched unwary travelers to fit them on his iron bed, as a metaphor for a system that cruelly disciplines workers. In The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers, Perelman shows how economic theory marginalizes workers and makes a robust case against the idea that competitive markets create freedom.

Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)

February 20, 1642

Says Horne: The New York Times series, “The Ransom,” will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic....”

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books on the work of Samir Amin

February 20, 1539

On 3 September 2011 Samir Amin celebrated his 80th birthday. Amin is a consistent and irrepressible exponent of the development of Marxism in his chosen discipline, International Political Economy. His long and fruitful career of intellectual struggle has been marked by a series of publications and re-publications, including the five books under review.

As Veterans Day descends: An important work, timely, and badly needed (Counterfire reviews ‘Dissenting POWs’)

February 20, 1472

The authors begin their introduction to the book on Memorial Day of 2012, when President Barack Obama declared that: ‘Today begins the fiftieth commemoration of our war in Vietnam’ and thereby prompted nation-wide efforts to explore the record of that conflict...

E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left reviewed in Radical Ruminations

February 20, 1441

Winslow produced an excellent book. The essays hang together as proposals for, and responses to, the first New Left and as evidence of the intimate connection between Thompson's historical writing and his politics. They provide a twofold intellectual history of those dramatic years. Thompson is powerful and elegant; Winslow is as passionate about intellectuals in socialist politics as Thompson was when he wrote these indispensable essays. But we need to understand what they built on.

Rob Wallace, on Monkeypox, Kinkajou, state fairs, cute bats and “Dead Epidemiologists” (Watch: John Oliver Show)

February 20, 1409

Did you happen to catch Rob Wallace on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver? It’s a primer on what we all wish was “a once in a lifetime nightmare” but... READ MORE

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