“Facing the Anthropocene,” in one’s hometown
February 20, 2024
"He is currently working on another book focusing on the underlying drivers that cause human society to conflict with nature and create rifts in the metabolic cycles of the planet."
Monthly Review Press
“The Return of Nature,” an analysis which captures Marx’s social milieu (Counterfire)
February 20, 2024
"This is a complex array of themes to pursue, particularly given that the scientific and social dimensions of sexual politics in the lives of many of these figures is highly relevant as well. Bellamy Foster rightly emphasises the importance of such issues within the overall picture, as a genuinely dialectical understanding of society and nature could hardly avoid confronting the alienated character of gender relations in class societies...."
Gerald Horne with Charisse Burden-Stelly on the longue durée of apocalypse
February 20, 2024
Interviewer Charisse Burden-Stelly begins, "....apocalypse represented, for African and indigenous folks, the end of life as they knew it—that is, a life free from enslavement, genocide, and ongoing violence wrought by the insatiable drive of the group that came to be known as “whites” for endless profit. This ending was simultaneously the beginning of a capitalist world economy rooted in racial hierarchy, imperial domination, and militarized social relations, of which neoliberalism is merely the most recent enunciation."
The story of dissident POWs brought back to life (Listen: A Public Affair)
February 20, 2024
"I thought to myself, 'I've never heard any of this really,' and I (came of age during) the anti-war movement, I'm a historian of this time period." If you think you've heard enough about the Vietnam War, just wait.
Michael Tigar recounts the story of Terry Nichols (Listen: For the Defense)
February 20, 2024
Federal criminal defense attorney David Oscar Markus periodically interviews famed trial lawyers about their most fascinating cases for his podcast, "For the Defense." This week, he featured Michael Tigar, published several times by Monthly Review. Markus introduces the episode: "Michael Tigar is exactly what action is all about... I mean, in 1999 there was a vote for lawyer of the century: Clarence Darrow was #1, Thurgood Marshall was #2, and you know who was #3?"
Chavista Government or Chavismo movement? (Listen: This is Hell)
February 20, 2024
Seemingly the only people supporting the opposition and their supposed leader, Juan Guaidó, are outsiders like the United States government and the Biden administration, which continues to recognize Guaidó as President despite Guaidó never getting a vote...
Read: Gerald Horne’s “Jazz and Justice” exposes music industry mobsters (Green Left)
February 20, 2024
As a work of social history, Jazz and Justice traces the origins of Jazz in the northern part of this hemisphere, but the issues it raises are quite contemporary. As his reviewer notes, "the now-common expression 'gig work' originated in the jazz world. The near-endless list of Black jazz musicians who have died early deaths is testimony to the overwork the gig economy forced on them."
Horne on the true source of Chauvin’s crimes (Listen: The Analysis)
February 20, 2024
"The bargain was that if they worked together, they could expropriate the land from the Native Americans and accomplish what came to be called the American Dream, and with a little luck and a lot of pluck, they could then somehow down the road gain free labor from enslaved Africans, and so there was a sort of corrupt bargain at the onset of what is now the United States of America...And still to this very day, you have this kind of class collaboration between some of the ninety-nine percent and some of the one percent. How else can you explain how and why a faux billionaire, Donald J. Trump in November 2020, received almost seventy-five million votes?"
“Dead Epidemiologists” spells it out plain, in Italian, Greek, Spanish, German, Portuguese and…English
February 20, 2024
Rob Wallace's timely new book Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 has officially circumambulated the globe, from Canada and India, to Greece and Italy, to Basque country and onward.
Read: A deep review of Horne’s “Jazz and Justice” (Counterfire)
February 20, 2024
"...from the world of Jelly Roll Morton and Kid Ory through to that of the Marsalis family, with the common thread being New Orleans, often cited as the birthplace of the music...an anatomy of resistance; at every stage, despite Jim Crow, gangsters and extreme violence, jazz developed and bloomed...."