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July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife

July 7: Howard Waitzkin comes to Beloit, WI to talk about Health Care Under the Knife

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

“A powerful package of ideas in highly readable form” — Paul Buhle reviews The Russians Are Coming, Again

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

Jeremy Kuzmarov talks about the New Cold War via Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear

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.

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

“Capitalism, imperialism and class: essential foundations for a critical public health”

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.

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

Revolutionary African Perspectives presents Gerald Horne in a 5-part radio WRFG interview

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

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

Rethinking Democracy, SR 2018 reviewed by Counterfire

This latest addition to one of the most prestigious journals on the left is a timely examination of the relationship between socialism and democracy. Decades of Stalinist distortion in Eastern Europe still leave a residual notion in the minds of many that these two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Throughout the era of the cold war, the Western states propagated the related idea that only capitalism was capable of securing the individual freedoms that are synonymous with the idea of democracy….