Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by the Tricontinental:
“The Architecture of Power: The Dollar, Financialisation, and the Struggle for Sovereignty”
Bonus links: Super Imperialism and Trade, Development and Foreign Debt and “Food Blackmail, the Washington Consensus and Freedom” and The Global Minotaur Review and “Russia, China and the Battle Against Dollar Hegemony” and “BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance” and Making Money Review
Link to an article by Caitlin Johnstone:
“They’re Launching A New COINTELPRO For The 21st Century”
Bonus link: Punishment Park
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia”
Bonus link: “Patriot Front and What Once Was Chocolate City”
Link to an article by Ken Morales:
“A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification”
Link to an article by Marjorie Cohn:
“Barely Stopping Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship”
Bonus links: “The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Its Own Expansion” and “The Supreme Court Wages Class War”
Link to a review by Gabe Levine-Drizin of Jeff Schuhrke‘s book Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA:
“Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)”
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
Link to a review by Jonathan Basile of the book Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden:
Link to an article by Evgenia Kovda:
“The Disappearance of Barbarians”
Bonus links: The Soviet Century and “Modern Art Was CIA ‘Weapon'”
Link to an excerpt from the book Where is America Going? by David North:
“Trump, the Epstein Files and the Putrefaction of the American Oligarchy”
Bonus links: “The US is Following 20th Century Europe Down the Authoritarian Rabbit Hole” and “The ‘Epstein Class’ Exposed: How the Ruling Class Rules” and “Trump’s Speech on the Elections: A Ruling Class in Crisis Lurches Toward Dictatorship”