As part of its survey of POWs in society, the book delves into movie treatments. The antiwar prisoners were obscured by Hollywood, which preferred films on the POWs and “Missing in Action” (MIAs) who were supposedly left behind, or which dwelt on the trope of the deranged veteran…. | more…
“It’s the best program we have probably adopted in this country, certainly beloved by many people. But I wanted to say this to our audience, that — much of our audience is younger than I am — this is going to sound, on its face, boring, but this is one of the most important shows that we’ve done for you.” | more…
What would — what should — getting beyond capitalism look like? Many scholars and activists have advanced strategies for moving toward a postcapitalist future. | more…
Yates takes a decidedly unorthodox approach. He spends a fair amount of time explaining the importance of reclaiming common spaces and “commoning” practices…. | more…
Without trivializing the hardships of often several years in jail, Wilber and Lembcke dissect personal accounts by former POWs. They point out contradictions, distinguish between physical punishment measures and deliberate violence, reconstruct different phases in the history of the prisons, and conclude that brutal treatment and torture were less common and systematic than purported. | more…
Anti-American, anti-Jim Crow sentiment and against the white supremacist domination project were already present on the island well before the revolution….generating a revolt that was not only against foreign domination, but against a deeply racist domination that tried to impose the same ‘Jim Crow’ system on Cuba, trying to transform a society with racism into a racist society according to the model of white supremacy… | more…
By the time of the POWs release and repatriation in early 1973, the war between the walls of Hoa Lo (the prison near Hanoi) was more than that between prisoners and their guards. The tensions between the officers and the enlisted men, universal in military organisations, had hardened into class lines… | more…
‘In Arabic, there’s this proverb: Somebody else’s troubles make your troubles look like nothing. I’ve always thought my whole life that losing my home is not a big deal. I’ve genuinely always thought: “We’re losing our home, but at least we’re not getting shot. At least we’re not getting our residency revoked.” And I think this most recent uprising has taught me that it actually matters that I stay in my home….’ | more…
An impressive array of spots in recent weeks, on topics ranging from the Rittenhouse trial and the legacy of Thanks-taking, ongoing Jazz greats of Horne’s hometown to Paul Robeson and the U.S.S.R., Haiti, and more… Gerald Horne weighs in. | more…
Seattle’s working class and its ‘intense localism’ as ‘unparalleled’ allowing these workers to form a ‘radical consensus’ with fluid political lines ‘left, right and center’ positioning the IWW, the Socialist, and the craft union’s Central Labor Council (CLC) leaders ‘on the same stage, in the same demonstrations, and on the same street corners’…. | more…
“When they try to get you to meet them halfway like. ‘well, U.S. imperialism is bad, but Venezuela is kind of bad too, or Cuba’s kind of bad too…no, we’re not going to meet you halfway.” | more…
Presentado por William Castillo, con Joe Emersberger, sobre su libro Amenaza Extraordinaria. El imperio estadounidense, Los Medios de Comunicación y los Veinte Años de Intentos de Golpe de Estado en Venezuela. | more…
On Thursday, November 18th, at 4 PM ET, in conversation with Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democratic congressman who led the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Michael Tigar spoke at the Institute for Policy Studies about his recent book “Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change.” | more…