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New! Michael Tigar’s Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power

February 20, 2024

Mythologies,” writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, “are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ways that mask an underlying reality.” For instance, the “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.

November 26, Rockford, IL: Howard Waitzkin on “Health Care Under the Knife”

February 20, 2024

Howard Waitzkin, author — along with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism — of "Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health," will speak on the U.S. health-care system, and how it could rescued and made an integral part of a new and radically different society.

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks to Paul DeRienzo on TrumpWatch

February 20, 2024

Jeremy Kuzmarov, author, with John Marciano, of The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, talks with Paul DeRienzo about the little-remembered history of Russia-United States relations.

Black Agenda Report interviews Marciano and Kuzmarov about their book, The Russians Are Coming, Again

February 20, 2024

Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano: Our book provides a historical perspective on contemporary affairs by showing how the Russo-phobia that has been prevalent in our political discourse over the last four to five years has deep and long historical roots, and has often been used by government leaders to turn public attention away from domestic inequalities...”

Michael Tigar on Law & Disorder Radio: “We have a Department that calls itself ‘Justice,’ but we know exactly what it’s doing…”

February 20, 2024

Internationally renowned human rights attorney Michael Tigar, author of the forthcoming Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power, talks to Law & Disorder host Michael Steven Smith and attorney Jim Lafferty about the growth of the national security state and the (further) decline of justice.

“Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism” — Counterpunch considers The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

I had high hopes for Gerald Horne’s The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism for a couple of reasons…. ¶ My hopes were not only met, they were exceeded. Horne has written both a scholarly treatment enriched by primary sources excavated from archives three hundred years old but also a fierce polemic that hearkens back to those of CLR James and WEB Dubois….

Gerald Horne via Truthout: “Fighting Fascism & White Supremacy by Understanding History”

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne: … I think that particularly with regard to students of African descent (but not exclusively students of African descent), it’s very important for them not to see Black people only in the role of slaves…. One of the many scandals of historiography in the United States is not dealing with that history, which I think leads to a misimpression that the slave population was inert, or as … Kanye West said, 400 years of slavery is “a choice.” Basically, I mean that kind of opinion comes clearly from this idea of presenting enslaved people as passive…”

New! India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History

February 20, 2024

Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance?

September 17: Howard Waitzkin comes to Portland, Maine with Health Care Under the Knife

February 20, 2024

As a lifelong activist, Howard Waitzkin has worked for single-payer national health programs in the United States and Latin America; local community and worker control for accessible health services; civilian health and mental health services for active duty military personnel in the struggle for peace; and policies to improve the social, political, and economic determinants of illness and early death....

October 1: Dr. Waitzkin makes house calls in Albuquerque, wielding Health Care under the Knife

February 20, 2024

Monday, October 1, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Albuquerque, NM, giving two presentations based on his book, and extending a discussion of today’s ailing medical system: what’s wrong, how it got this way, and what we can do to heal it.

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New! Michael Tigar’s Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power

November 26, Rockford, IL: Howard Waitzkin on “Health Care Under the Knife”

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks to Paul DeRienzo on TrumpWatch

Black Agenda Report interviews Marciano and Kuzmarov about their book, The Russians Are Coming, Again

Michael Tigar on Law & Disorder Radio: “We have a Department that calls itself ‘Justice,’ but we know exactly what it’s doing…”

“Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism” — Counterpunch considers The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

Gerald Horne via Truthout: “Fighting Fascism & White Supremacy by Understanding History”

New! India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History

September 17: Howard Waitzkin comes to Portland, Maine with Health Care Under the Knife

October 1: Dr. Waitzkin makes house calls in Albuquerque, wielding Health Care under the Knife

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