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The Progressive Populist reviews The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
February 20, 2024
Colonies and the political economy are two sides of the same coin. In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, historian Gerald Horne reveals the actors and factors behind the origin of a racial capitalism that haunts us now. ¶ It is no easy task, but Horne is up to it….
July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife
February 20, 2024
Howard Waitzkin, author, with the Working Group on Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, will be in Beloit, Wisconsin Saturday, July 7 to discuss the U.S. health-care crisis — how we can rescue it and make it an integral part of a new and radically different society
“A powerful package of ideas in highly readable form” — Paul Buhle reviews The Russians Are Coming, Again
February 20, 2024
These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean agents, perhaps? Or is this all, perhaps, a crude plan to place Trump Steaks in Trump hotels in heretofore unbidden locations? What kind of madness would lessen the threat of American nukes that keeps us all as safe as we may reasonably hope to be?...
Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear
February 20, 2024
Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The first Cold War was a tragedy. The new Cold War is playing out as a dangerous farce. That’s the thesis of Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano in The Russians are Coming, Again. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou speak with Kuzmarov, author and assistant professor of American history at the University of Tulsa.
Gerald Horne discusses The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism on podcast Last Born in the Wilderness
February 20, 2024
Patrick Farnsworth, host of Last Born in the Wilderness, a weekly podcast, talks to author and historian Gerald Horne about his recent book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean
Howard Waitzkin talks with Bill Ayers about Health Care Under the Knife … and so much more
February 20, 2024
On April 17, Howard Waitzkin, author of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, came to Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore to take part in a Fresh Ayers discussion about capitalism and the health care crisis with the eponymous Bill Ayers
“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”
February 20, 2024
David G. Legge is a teacher and international health policy researcher, based at La Trobe School of Public Health in Melbourne, Australia, who is also active in the global People’s Health Movement. Recently, he wrote a review of four books for the journal Critical Public Health. Three of these books, Health Care Under the Knife; A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism; and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, were published by Monthly Review Press.
The World We Wish to See reviewed by ANTI-IMPERIALISM.ORG
February 20, 2024
“What to do?" A short question with a very complex answer. In The World We Wish to See, Samir Amin delves into the contemporary political conjuncture with a succinctness and ease that belies the monuments scope of the topic he addresses—how do counter-hegemonic movements find convergence in diversity, in an age when political lines are being redrawn and new issues are being raised, daily, hourly?
Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview
February 20, 2024
Nyeusi U. Jami, host of Revolutionary African Perspectives (WRFG 89.3 FM, Atlanta), talks with Gerald Horne in a four-part interview, about his recent book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. In part five, the conversation turns to matters involving Dr. Horne’s 2014 book, Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow