Link to an article by Ginger Jentzen:
“Minneapolis’ Housing Plan Rewards Developers, Punishes Working People”
Bonus links: “‘Poor Door’ Tenants of Luxury Tower Reveal the Financial Apartheid Within” and “We Can Have Beautiful Public Housing”
Daniel Zamora – Should We Care About Inequality?
Link to an article by Daniel Zamora:
“Should We Care About Inequality?”
This is really an article about historical battles for ideological hegemony.
Bonus links: Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle and Trouble in Paradise and Making Money and The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Max Blumenthal & Jeb Sprague – Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider
Link to an article by Max Blumenthal & Jeb Sprague:
“Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Says Top Neocon Insider”
Bonus links: “Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies” and “Russiagate and the Men with Glass Eyes” and “Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are” and “Clinging to Collusion” and “Three Variations on Trump Quote”
Jordan Holycross – New York Times’ Trauma Tourism
Link to an article by Jordan Holycross:
“New York Times’ Trauma Tourism”
Bonus links: “Hold the Front Page” and “Food Stamp Fables”
Ryan LaMothe – The Occult Injustice of Laws Supporting Capitalism
Link to an article by Ryan LaMothe:
Brian Platt – Cops Are at War Out There
Link to an article by Brian Platt:
Bonus links: Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle and “Police and the Liberal Fantasy” and “Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People” and Alain Badiou Quote and “Is there really a ‘war on cops’? The data show that 2015 will likely be one of the safest years in history for police” and “What’s Wrong with Police in America” and “Why Are the Police Caught Flat-Footed by Right-Wing Extremism? Because They Are Right-Wing Extremists.”
John Steppling – Before the Law
Link to an article by John Steppling:
While fairly detailed in its analysis and proffered support, the asserted parallels with fascist regimes of the past isn’t fully convincing. Does the current moment not have neo-feudalist (or neo-Bonapartist) aspects? Doesn’t the present moment have some unique features without complete historical precedent?
Bonus link: The Courts Are Political
Tim Seitz – The “Design Thinking” Delusion
Vijay Prashad – Regime Change 2.0
Landon Frim & Harrison Fluss – Steven Pinker: False Friend of the Enlightenment
Link to a review by Landon Frim & Harrison Fluss of Steven Pinker‘s book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018):
“Steven Pinker: False Friend of the Enlightenment”
This is a great tear-down of Pinker’s thinking, which is problematic because of how basically insipid it is as mere status quo boosterism.
Bonus links: Review of The Great Leveler and Review of Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History and Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle and Review of Making Money
Bonus quote:
“in the analysis of ideology, it is not simply a matter of seeing which account of reality best matches the ‘facts’, with the one that is closest being the least biased and therefore the best. As soon as the facts are determined, we have already — whether we know it or not — made our choice; we are already within one ideological system or another. The real dispute has already taken place over what is to count as the facts, which facts are relevant, and so on.”
Rex Butler, “What Is a Master-Signifier”