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Via Jacobin magazine’s “Stay at Home” videos: Gerald Horne on the 1960s Urban Uprisings and Their Legacy

Via Jacobin magazine’s “Stay at Home” videos: Gerald Horne on the 1960s Urban Uprisings and Their Legacy

Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine and Catalyst journal, joins Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston, to discuss the police brutality that led to the Watts rebellion in 1965 and how its legacy can be understood in light of today's recent events. Watch, below or at Jacobin (Also keep in touch with Jacobin's ongoing live-stream lectures)

Tearing Down White Supremacist Monuments Isn’t Empty Symbolism: Gerald Horne on The Real News

Tearing Down White Supremacist Monuments Isn’t Empty Symbolism: Gerald Horne on The Real News

Gerald Horne, author of the recently published The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, talks to Jacqueline Luqman of The Real News Network about how the monuments that are coming down represent "more than just the people they honor -- they symbolize the brutal legacy of white supremacy, racism, colonialism, and genocide we live with today..."

A Celebration of Black Liberation & Day to Remember the “Horrific System That Was Slavery”: Gerald Horne on Democracy Now!

A Celebration of Black Liberation & Day to Remember the “Horrific System That Was Slavery”: Gerald Horne on Democracy Now!

Author and historian Gerald Horne, author of the just published The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talks with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!: “June 19 is Juneteenth, celebrating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the United States learned they had been freed from bondage. We speak with Gerald Horne, who says that while the story of Juneteenth is ‘much more complicated and much more complex than is traditionally presented,’ increased recognition of the day ‘provides an opportunity to have a thorough remembrance of this horrific system that was slavery.’”

Ruling Class Rethinks Juneteenth⁠—While Overlooking Black Liberation

Ruling Class Rethinks Juneteenth⁠—While Overlooking Black Liberation

Dr. Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, spoke to Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman, hosts of By Any Means Necessary, via Radio Sputnik, Washington DC, about the "incomplete" narrative of Juneteenth embraced by the political establishment, the role of class collaboration in the construction of white supremacy in the US, and why corporate moves to dispose of racist iconography reflect the growing power of the anti-racist movement. Listen to the whole show, or begin with Gerald Horne, at hour two...

How Big Agriculture & Capitalism Are Making Pandemics Like Coronavirus More Likely: Rob Wallace on RT

How Big Agriculture & Capitalism Are Making Pandemics Like Coronavirus More Likely: Rob Wallace on RT

Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, talks to Afshin Rattans, host of RT's Going Underground, about how, in recent history, deforestation and land use changes driven by global capital have caused more epidemics, and why the emergency response to the latest Coronavirus is ineffective at solving problems such as deadly pathogens...

Gastronomica reviews “A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism”

Gastronomica reviews “A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism”

A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism is at once a primer on the world’s dominant economic structure and a broad analysis of the food system that it has created. Eric Holt-Giménez persuades his readers that fluency in capitalism is essential to anyone seeking to effect change within the food system...

Senior Women Web reviews “Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power” by Michael E. Tigar

Senior Women Web reviews “Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power” by Michael E. Tigar

This is a law book written for a general audience. Tigar has been a law professor most of his life; in these pages one can learn much from his vast legal and historical knowledge. ¶ Multiple chapters are spread out over five "mythologies": Racism, Criminal Justice, Free Expression, Worker Rights and International Human Rights. ¶ His discussion of these mythologies is not neutral; he has a point of view and it's generally from the left....