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 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 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”
Link to an article by C.J. Atkins:
“Carney’s Davos Confession: Globalization’s ‘Rules-based Order’ Was a Lie”
Link to an article by Ian Angus:
Link to an article by Esha:
“Myth Debunked: Communism Works in Theory…”
Bonus link: “Marx in Moments 06 — ‘So-Called’ Primitive Accumulation”
Link to an interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us:
Link to an interview with Michael Hudson conducted by Glenn Diesen: