Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
Link to an article by Iker Suarez:
“The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle”
Bonus link: “The Recent Upsurge in Military Expenditure” and “A Class-based Catastrophe: US Suicide Rate Jumps 37 Percent in a Quarter-Century” and “Analysis Finds Low-Income Older Adults Die Nine Years Earlier than Wealthier Peers” and “Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?” and “Effects of International Sanctions on Age-specific Mortality: A Cross-national Panel Data Analysis” and “Interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: ‘In America right now, a low-wage job … is homelessness waiting to happen” and “The Darién Gap Straddling Panama and Colombia is a Mass Migrant Graveyard that Exemplifies Injustice of Today’s Global Economy” and “Anti-ICE, Anti-Imperialism. A Primer on the Role of ICE and How to Fight It”
Link to an article by Paul Le Blanc:
Link to a statement by the U.S. Peace Council:
“Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease”
Bonus links: “Imperialism’s Revival Strategy” and “After ‘Years of Neglected Oversight,’ House Votes to Repeal Authorization Used by Presidents to Wage ‘Forever Wars’ “ (” ‘the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs’ are ‘good to remove,’ but . . . it’s ‘mostly the 2001 AUMF that is exploited for forever wars.'”)
Link to an article by Michael Hudson:
“Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History”
Bonus links: “Bonds Away!” and “Imperialism’s Revival Strategy” and “The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement”
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Imperialism’s Revival Strategy”
Bonus links: “Collapse” and “Ukraine, War Propaganda, and the Return of Russiagate” and “US VP JD Vance Admits West Wants Global South Trapped at Bottom of Value Chain” and “Once More on Minerals and Imperialism” and “Trump Is the Symptom, U.S. Imperialism Is the Disease” and “US Imperialism and the Project of New Cold War” and “The U.S. is ‘Involuntarily’ Helping to Unite the Brics, Says Economist”
Link to an article by Helena Cobban:
“Musk’s Digital Coup in Washington: Effects and Prospects”
Bonus links: “All the Ways Elon Musk is Breaking the Law, Explained by a Law Professor” and “Federal Judge Finds Trump Defied Injunction to Unfreeze Funds” and “DC Judge Blocks Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze” and “Could a President Vivek Ramaswamy Lay Off 75% of Federal Workers by Himself?” and “Agencies Have ‘Ultimate’ Authority Over Firings, OPM Says” and “Corporate Media Bosses Bow to Trump Demands” and “What’s in a Gulf’s Name? A Test for Democracy” and “The World’s Richest People Look Out for Each Other” and “WaPo Provides Cover for Musk’s Government Takeover” and “Musk Seeks Access to IRS Tax Data on All Americans” and “Social Security Has Never Missed a Payment. DOGE Actions Threaten ‘Interruption of Benefits,’ Ex-agency Head Says” and “What’s Behind the Republican War Against Education: Part 1” and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018) (“Where once left-wing political parties at least claimed to represent factory workers, nowadays, all such pretense has been discarded, and they have come to be dominated by the professional managerial classes that run institutions like schools and hospitals. Right-wing populism has taken systematic aim at the authority of those institutions in the name of a different set of religious of patriarchal ‘values’—for instance, challenging the authority of universities by rejecting climate science or evolution, or challenging the authority of the medical system by campaigns against contraception or abortion. Or it has dabbled in impossible fantasies about returning to the Industrial Age (Trump).”) and “Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew” and “Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression” and “Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest” and “Hundreds Of Law School Deans, Professors, Law Firm Partners, and Former Judges Demand That Government Officials Obey The Rule Of Law” and “White House Has Absolutely Unhinged Response To Judicial Threats” and “Red Flag Alert for Genocide – United States: The Rise of the Nazi Salute” and “Neofascism in the White House” and “Payroll Taxes Are the Achilles Heel of Social Security” and Review of Kill All Normies
Link to an article by Jim Kavanagh:
Link to an article by Margaret Kimberley: