Link to an interview with Noam Chomsky by C.J. Polychroniou:
“Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky”
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Juvenal – Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [Who can watch the watchmen?]”
Ugo Fuscolo Quote
“Le ricchezze e la povertà sono le più antiche e mortali infermità delle repubbliche. [An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of a republic.]”
Ugo Fuscolo, Monitore Italiano (Milan, 5 Feb. 1798), paraphrasing Plutarch‘s Licurgus
Connor Kilpatrick – Everybody Hates Cornel West
Link to an article by Connor Kilpatrick:
Bonus link: “Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like”
Timothy Shenk – When Slaveholders Controlled the Government
Link to an interview with Matthew Karp, author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy (2016), by Timothy Shenk:
“Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp”
Bonus links: “When the South Held the Keys” and “Abolitionism: a Study Guide”
Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn – The CIA and the Press
Link to an article by Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn:
“The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network”
Pam Martens & Russ Martens – Washington Post Reporter Spreads Blacklist of Independent Journalist Sites
Link to an article by Pam Martens & Russ Martens:
“Washington Post Reporter Spreads Blacklist of Independent Journalist Sites”
Bonus link: “Roaming Charges: Nasty As They Wanna Be”
On Fidel Castro’s Death
Links to commentary upon the death of Fidel Castro:
- “History Will be the Judge: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016”
- “The New York Times’s Biased Obituary of Fidel Castro”
- “The Left’s Fidelity to Castro-ation” (this seems a bit reductionist in limiting Cuba’s future options to just three, especially because a 2006 WWF (World Wildlife Federation) report found that Cuba is the only country in the world with ecologically sustainable development; Cuba is also one of the only places left on the planet with healthy coral reefs)
On the Election of Donald Trump
Selected links to commentary following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States (updated to include commentary on his inauguration and first few months in office too):
- “Trump Against the Machine: How Political Elites Failed” and “‘Terrifying Political Earthquake’: Slavoj Zizek Shares His Take on Trump’s Win in US Elections” and “Slavoj Zizek Interview on BBC News: Trump and Brexit”
- “Donald’s Myths” (rather than “myth”, the established term is “ideology”)
- “A Losing Coalition”
- “The Specter of Democracy”
- “The End of Progressive Neoliberalism”
- “The Long Death March of the Dismal Dollar Democrats” and “Beyond the Hollow Ones” and “How Pure Is Your Hate?” and “The Deep State v. Trump” and “Liberal Hypocrisy, ‘Late-Shaming,’ and Russia-Blaming in the Age of Trump” and “Bernie Sanders, The Company Man”
- “The Glory Days Are Over”
- “It’s Class, Stupid, Not Race”
- “Trump’s Supporters Believe a False Narrative of White Victimhood — And the Data Proves It”
- “The Intolerance of the Left: Trump’s Win as Seen from Walt Disney’s Hometown”
- “Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?” and “Roaming Charges: This Ain’t a Dream No More, It’s the Real Thing”
- “This Week the Issue Is Not Trump. It Is Ourselves”
- “Time to Diss Obey- The Failure of Identity Politics and Protest”
- “Listening to Trump”
- “Passing the Baton”
- “From Obama to Trump: The Failure of Passive Revolution”
- “Break Up the Democratic Party: It’s Time for the Clintons and Rubin to Go – and Soros too.”
- “We Cannot ‘Give Trump a Chance'”
- “What Labor Should Learn from Trump’s Victory”
- “The Confusion Candidate”
- “Only Socialism Can Defeat Trumpism”
- “Militant Hope in the Age of Trump”
- “Was the US Election Stolen …Yet Again?”
- “This New Poll Has All Kinds of Bad News for Donald Trump”
- “Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like”
- “Drones Legacy”
- “Episodes in Recent American History”
John Pilger – The Secrets of the US Election
Link to an interview by John Pilger:
“The Secrets of the US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger”