Author: Syd Fablo

Robert Parry – An Apology & Explanation, Two Years On

Link to an article by Robert Parry:

“An Apology & Explanation, Two Years On”

 

Bonus links: “America’s Reporter: The Hersh Method” and “Making Rebellion Attractive: Why the Establishment Still Hates John Reed” and “Why ‘Russian Meddling’ is a Trojan Horse” and “The Limits of the Web in an Age of Communicative Capitalism” and “Three Variations on Trump: Chaos, Europe, and Fake News”

Bonus quote from Rex Butler:

“in the analysis of ideology, it is not simply a matter of seeing which account of reality best matches the ‘facts’, with the one that is closest being the least biased and therefore the best. As soon as the facts are determined, we have already — whether we know it or not — made our choice; we are already within one ideological system or another. The real dispute has already taken place over what is to count as the facts, which facts are relevant, and so on.”

Jim Kavanagh – Impeachment: What Lies Beneath

Link to an article by Jim Kavanagh:

“Impeachment: What Lies Beneath?”

 

Bonus links: “Impeachment Hearing Highlights Conflict Over US Policy in Ukraine” and “A Warning: A Manifesto of the Pro-war ‘Resistance’ in the American State” and “America Escalates Its ‘Democratic’ Oil War in the Near East” (and “The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson”) and “Impeachment Without Class Politics: An Autopsy”

Stephen Gowans – Soleimani Assassination Only One of Many (and Not the Most Consequential) US Acts of War Against Iran

Link to an article by Stephen Gowans:

“Soleimani Assassination Only One of Many (and Not the Most Consequential) US Acts of War Against Iran”

 

Bonus links: “America Escalates Its ‘Democratic’ Oil War in the Near East” and “The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson”

Kevin Kumashiro – The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden

Link to an interview with Kevin Kumashiro, conducted by Janine Jackson:

“The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden”

 

Bonus links: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Richard Shaull Quote, Democracy and Education, The Higher Learning in America, “‘They’ve Been Doing This Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform’: CounterSpin Interview with Wayne Au on Gates’ Educational Failure,” “Could Student Loans Lead to Debt Prison? The Handwriting on the Wall,” “Student Loans, The Indentured Servitude of the 21st Century,” “A Closer Look at Income and Race Concentration in Public Schools,” “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State,” “The Slow Death of the University,” and “Red Diaper Babies”

Vijay Prashad – After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia

Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:

“After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia”

 

Bonus links: “The Coup in Bolivia Has Everything to Do With the Screen You’re Using to Read This” and “In Moments of Crisis, Behind Every Moderate Liberal, There’s a Fascist” and “The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup—Because US Wanted It to Happen” and “A Week After the Coup in Bolivia, There’s Still No Proof of Electoral Fraud” and “Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup” and “A Letter to Intellectuals Who Deride Revolutions in the Name of Purity”

Joan Roelofs – Military Keynesianism Marches On

Link to an article by Joan Roelofs:

“Military Keynesianism Marches On”

 

Bonus links: “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and Modern Money Green Economics for a New Era and “Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA” and “American Sniper?” and “culture industry” and “How the U.S. Military Undermines the American Economy” and Super Imperialism and Review of The Global Minotaur and “The Trillion Dollar Silencer”

Nancy Fraser – A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist

Link to an interview with Nancy Fraser, conducted by Olimpia Malatesta:

“A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist”

 

This makes a rather incongruous endorsement of “left populism” in the context of “anti-capitalism”, which is a bit of an oxymoron.  Fraser is too tepid here — she’s mostly offering a slightly watered-down version of ideas that have been circulated by others for some time, with little justification for watering things down.  Overarchingly, though, she is astutely arguing Walter Benjamin’s maxim that behind every rise of fascism lies a failed revolution.

 

Bonus links: Review of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (includes a useful questioning of Fraser’s “social reproduction” theory) and “On Sex Without Identity: Feminist Politics and Sexual Difference” (this interview expresses a more coherent position than Fraser’s) and “Alt-right Trump Supporters and Left-wing Bernie Sanders Fans Should Join Together to Defeat Capitalism” and “Today’s Anti-fascist Movement Will Do Nothing to Get Rid of Right-wing Populism – It’s Just Panicky Posturing” and “The U.S. Political Scene: Whiteness and the Legitimacy Crisis of Global Capitalism” and “About the Fate of Contemporary Girls” Excerpt (“women should be much more wary today of what capitalism is offering them in the way of liberation than they should be of men.”) and “Supporting a Feminism for the 99%” and “Against the Populist Temptation”