Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
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 Gary Wilson:
“Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery”
Bonus links: Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “$9 Trillion Collapse Machine”
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 F-Droid:
Bonus links: “With Developer Verification, Google’s Apple Envy Threatens to Dismantle Android’s Open Legacy” and When Google Met Wikileaks and Surveillance Valley and “Cookies, Identifiers and Other Data that Google Silently Stores on Android Handsets”
Link to an article by Adam Federman:
“FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas ‘Antifa’ Trial”
Bonus links: “All Eyes on Prairieland: Judge Attacks Right to Fair Trial in First ‘Antifa’ Case” and “In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine” and “Support the Prairieland Defendants”
Link to an article by Patrick Lawrence:
“Another War We’re Not Supposed to See”
Bonus links: “Another U.S. War Built on Lies: Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Targeting of Iran’s Independence” and “Iran Destroys the Radar Systems at the Heart of U.S. Missile Defense” and “Pentagon’s Trillion-dollar War Machine Can’t Win This War on Iran” and “When Imperialism Disappears from View” and “The National Lawyers Guild Joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in Condemning the Joint U.S.-Israeli Illegal Aggression on Iran” and “Pentagon Admits $25 Billion Price Tag for Iran War is an Underestimation” and “The Empire of Cannibals” and “Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected” and “How the Military-Industrial Complex Controls US Foreign Policy” and “The Iran Blunder” and “How European Countries Are Aiding The US & Israel in the War on Iran” and “The War on Iran is Transforming the Global Economy” and “Iran, the Yuan and the Dollar Sanctions System” and “Iran Today, China Tomorrow: The Strategy Behind the War” and “Strait Power” and “Wars Are Won by Economics, Not Armies” and “Two Fractures Effected by Neo-Liberalism” and “Apocalypse Now— West Asia Edition” and “Joy at Death and Destruction”
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 link: “The US is Following 20th Century Europe Down the Authoritarian Rabbit Hole”
Link to an article in the Milwaukee Independent:
“When a Cult Goes Mainstream: Inside the Toxic Psychological Engine of Trump’s MAGA Movement”
Bonus links: “Is Right-wing News a Religion?” and Kill All Normies Review