February 20, 2024
Dead Epidemiologists "speaks more plainly than academic jargon is wont to allow. Yet, in my view, this is one of the book’s biggest strengths. It makes the book accessible, and that accessibility is going to be important if we, as a global community, are to tackle the problem that Wallace and his colleagues articulate..."
February 20, 2024
"I’m going to argue that it’s not only June 19, 1865, that we should mark, but also June 19, 1867, because that’s when the French leader Maximillian was killed. It marks the end of the attempt to continue our enslavement in Mexico. It’s a history that I would urge others to investigate...."
February 20, 2024
It is worth summing up some of these key lies: 1) Venezuela was “once prosperous.” In fact, Venezuela was an unequal country in which most people were poor despite the country’s oil wealth; 2) Venezuela was a democracy before Chavismo. In fact, politicians alternated holding power according to an undemocratic agreement, and rammed austerity down the throats of Venezuela’s poor by committing massacres, such as the Caracazo....
February 20, 2024
"Settler colonialism" begins in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida in 1565. Actually, September 15, 1565. I think people sort of know that, but they're so taken with the anglocentric narrative...
February 20, 2024
In this interview on KFAI-Minneapolis with hosts Don Olson and Dave Gutknecht, Michael Tigar encounters one of his clients for the first time, live on the radio.
February 20, 2024
...in the service of besieged Venezuela, en route to Iran, another nation similarly blockaded by America, when he was intercepted by Cape Verde authorities and thrown into prison there....
February 20, 2024
As then, and today, the primary objective of American fascist movements is to undermine the democratic impulse that threatens concentrated wealth...
February 20, 2024
"Dr. Horne, you're from Saint Louis, and your younger brother is a Jazz musician and...I was wondering if you could paint the picture of when jazz first entered your world and psyche."
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne is this year's winner of the ABA, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation, for his book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse," a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed.
February 20, 2024
“As an epidemiologist, you’re supposed to want to put yourself out of business,” Wallace said. “Everyone has bills to pay; I understand that. But the extent to which your corruption might lead to a pathogen that could kill a billion people—that’s where my line is”....“You can intellectually understand something but still not assimilate the oncoming damage,” he told me later, as he recalled the “sour vindication” of having his worst fears come true. “So there’s an aspect of rage, and an arrival at an understanding.”
