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Striketober! Let it spread like a contagion (Shaun Richman in ‘In These Times’)

Striketober! Let it spread like a contagion (Shaun Richman in ‘In These Times’)

February 20, 2024

A moment in which tens of thousands of workers are on strike — at John Deere, at Kellogg’s, at Warrior Met Coal—might seem like a strange time to talk about a ​“right” to strike. But a legal right to strike must include the right to return to the job when the strike is over — win, lose or draw — and U.S. workers haven’t had that right since corporations and Ronald Reagan’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conspired to weaponize a long-dormant Supreme Court decision to legalize union-busting...Strikes are contagious.

Sorting through confusion on the repatriation of Haitian refugees (Listen to Dr. Horne on the Carl Nelson Show)

Sorting through confusion on the repatriation of Haitian refugees (Listen to Dr. Horne on the Carl Nelson Show)

February 20, 2024

The short answer is that when the U.S. was involved in Afghanistan, we cut deals with many warlords, shorthand for gangsters, that's number one. Number two: Afghanistan is quite rich with mineral wealth, which ironically enough, may end up going to the People's Republic of China, which is quite close to the Pakistanis, which was the major creator and backer of the Taliban, who are now in power. The third point, however, is that the Taliban is going to have a hard way to go..."

The sour vindication, bitter eloquence of “Dead Epidemiologists” (Rob Wallace interviewed by The Nation)

The sour vindication, bitter eloquence of “Dead Epidemiologists” (Rob Wallace interviewed by The Nation)

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.”

Watch: Gerald Horne’s American Book Award acceptance speech

Watch: Gerald Horne’s American Book Award acceptance speech

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.

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

The lies peddled about Venezuela’s past (FAIR publishes ‘Extraordinary Threat’ excerpt)

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....

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