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Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century “Prophetic”: International Journal of Communication

Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century “Prophetic”: International Journal of Communication

February 20, 0837

Renowned communications scholar and media activist Robert W. McChesney’s most recent work interrogates the state of U.S. politics, mass media, and social reform. Those already familiar with McChesney’s work gain greater insight into his experiences as an activist and his distinctive form of political, economic, and historical analysis beyond communication research. Blowing the Roof is expansive and thematic in organization...

Counterfire reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse” by Gerald Horne

Counterfire reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse” by Gerald Horne

February 20, 0721

The disease of racism continues to cause suffering and misery across the globe. The eruption of the Black Lives Matter protests this year has exposed the extent to which systematic racism continues to oppress and demonise black and minority ethnic communities, particularly in the US and Britain. This racism in many ways stems from colonialism and imperialism, and therefore capitalism, particularly through the devastating trans-Atlantic slave trade...

Steve Brouwer in NYC, Dec 14

February 20, 0692

Join the author of Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care at Word Up Community Bookshop in NYC, December 14, at 6 pm. Also featuring a screening of "Cancion de Esteli" by Cuban poet and filmmaker Victor Casaus.

Hungry for change in our food system? Truthout turns to A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

Hungry for change in our food system? Truthout turns to A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

February 20, 0572

The centenary of the Russian Revolution has no doubt produced a cascade of lugubrious foodistas, made melancholy by the moribund march past 100. There is widespread disaffection with the fact that ‘capitalism is … assumed to be immutable and [is] rarely questioned’ according to Holt-Gimenez—and rightly so. But the solemnity of the centenary was made much less draining by the availability of Eric Holt-Gimenez’s A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism. Beneath the cringe-worthy title is a serious attempt to reintroduce the ‘C-word’ into the food discourse…

Steve Brouwer on Health Care in Venezuela & Cuba, NYC, 9/2

February 20, 0552

Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, author and journalist Steve Brouwer tells the story of the innovative and inspirational health care programs pioneered in Cuba and being adapted to the needs of Venezuela today.

Rob Wallace on who’s to blame (Listen: Background Briefing)

Rob Wallace on who’s to blame (Listen: Background Briefing)

February 20, 0482

"...the thought was, this is the cost of doing business, and that they would externalize the cost, not just on the people of China, but on the rest of the world...China is not alone in that. The U.S. has done that, Europe has done that...the Swine flu, H1N1 that emerged in 2009 outside Mexico City, our team calls that the NAFTA flu, (from) the U.S. meat dumped onto the Mexican market....In other words we did it ourselves, in 2009, this very thing that China has also been doing for several decades."

One Day in December reviewed in The Spokesman

February 20, 0440

Celia Sánchez was Fidel Castro's right-hand woman. She was the daughter of a country doctor, something of a radical himself, a single woman dutifully devoted to looking after daddy and doing good works with a Catholic organisation. It was a superb cover for her underground work. She was in on the Cuban Revolution from the very beginning. Her handler was a remarkable young man, Frank País (later murdered by Batista's goons) who deserves to be as iconic as 'Che' Guevara. (But then so do many others, brave young women and men who were killed in the early days – because of the Cuban Revolution's success and survival they tend to be forgotten).

Africa Is a Country reviews “Mapping My Way Home”

Africa Is a Country reviews “Mapping My Way Home”

February 20, 0422

Stephanie Urdang didn’t leave South Africa at the age of 23 because she was forced into exile. She left because she ‘hated Apartheid.’ It was the late 1960s—mid-hiatus between the Rivonia Trial, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-Apartheid leaders (in 1964), the burgeoning of Black Consciousness (from the late 1960s onwards), the resurgent trade union movement (1973), and the Soweto uprising (1976). Avenues for fighting Apartheid had narrowed; the comforts of whiteness expanded….

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