Link – Page 96 – Rock Salted

Dan O’Sullivan – Money In the Bank

Article on the business of pro wrestling by Dan O’Sullivan:

Gareth Porter – Robert S. McNamara and the Real Tonkin Gulf Deception

Link to an article by investigative historian Gareth Porter:

“Robert S. McNamara and the Real Tonkin Gulf Deception: Pushing LBJ Into War”

It is interesting to consider Porter’s perspectives on this in light of the late sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the “bureaucratic field”. That is, Porter does not view the “state” as a monolithic entity, but a field established by and through its agents (and groups of agents) struggling amongst each other for authority.

Frances Fox Piven – Extreme Poverty

Link to an essay by Frances Fox Piven excerpted from the book Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA (2014):

“Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries”

Jack Rasmus – A Reply to Thom Hartmann’s Interview of Richard Wolff

Link to an article by Jack Rasmus. It’s hard to tell what this is in “reply” to, as neither Hartmann nor Wolff are mentioned following the title. Regardless, it’s an interesting, if brief, statement of his theory:

“A Reply to Thom Hartmann’s Interview of Richard Wolff”

Loïc Wacquant – Crafting the Neoliberal State

Link to an article on the substitution of prisons for social welfare programs in the USA by Loïc Wacquant, author of Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), which came out around the same time as Michelle Alexander’s similar (but more well-known) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).

“Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity”