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The Merchants of Moral Panic — Thomas Harrington | BROWSTONE INSTITUTE

November 26, 2021

Source: BROWSTONE INSTITUTE NOVEMBER 23, 2021 The Merchants of Moral Panic By THOMAS HARRINGTON  In his famous Understanding Media published in 1964 …

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Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization — Christiaan W. J. M. Alting Von Geusau | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE

November 18, 2021

Source: BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization By CHRISTIAAN W.J.M. ALTING VON GEUSAU  NOVEMBER 17, 2021 Hannah …

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Three Problems of the Revolution — Daniel Guérin | The Anarchist Library | Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog

November 17, 2021

Source(s): The Anarchist Library / Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog   Daniel Guérin Three Problems of the Revolution Spontaneity and consciousness The …

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Winter Soldier Investigation Film

October 16, 2021

Uploaded on May 6, 2008 Winter Soldier investigation into war crimes during the Vietnam War. Film Released in UK and …

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Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies — Matthew E. Stanley |Interantional Socialist Review

June 10, 2020

Source: International Socialist Review Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies By Matthew E. Stanley Issue #108: Features I’m an educator. And one …

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Speech from the Dock — John Maclean | Marxists Internet Archive

May 17, 2018

Source: Marxists Internet Archive Hat tip to Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, who about the piece write: “I am here as …

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Confronting the Stalinist legacy — Corey Oakley (Autumn 2011) | Marxist Left Review

November 25, 2017

[Norm’s note: there is widespread and extensive confusion, and hence a great deal of distortion and unthinking dismissal, even and especially …

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A short history of ‘statism’ in post-colonial Syria: “The origins of the criminal Assad dynasty” — Omar Hassan (Summer 2017)| Marxist Left Review

November 24, 2017

[En passant: Omar Hassan mentions Leila Al-Shami’s and Robin Yassin-Kassab’s, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. The full text of …

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Ooops! And what would ‘Remembrance Day’ be without a bit of remembering: WAR STORIES — David Swanson | World Beyond War

November 11, 2017

Source: HUNTER OF STORIES by David Swanson, World Beyond War HUNTER OF STORIES The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has …

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Political Islam, class and capital. Part 2: Manifestation of centre-periphery crisis — Ardeshir Mehrdad | Middle East 4 Change

October 30, 2017

Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohassess Source: Middle East 4 Change [Norm’s note: to read Part 1 of this series, follow …

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The Black Jacobins: A review of C. L. R. James’s classic account of Haiti’s slave revolt — Ashley Smith | International Socialist Review

June 24, 2017

Note: A .pdf version of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution can be obtained …

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TalkingStickTV – Michael Parenti – The U.S. War on Yugoslavia

February 22, 2017

Uploaded on Aug 16, 2008 Talk by Michael Parenti on “The U.S. War on Yugoslavia” given May 16, 1999 in …

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Global Warming: How It All Began — Richard Courtney | Still Waiting For Greenhouse

June 6, 2016

Norm’s note: I do not necessarily agree with everything that Richard Courtney has to say on climate per se , but I …

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Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union — Mario Sousa | Northstar Compass

June 1, 2016

Norm’s note: if it’s permissible to pilfer one’s own comment left at another blog, then by way of a short preamble: …

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The Wage System — Peter Kropotkin 1920 | Marxist Internet Archive

May 19, 2016

Source:Marxist Internet Archive   The Wage System   First Published: Freedom Pamphlets No. 1., New Edition. 1920. Transcribed: by EndPage.com. …

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Marx Myths and Legends. Introduction — Andy Blunden

January 10, 2016

(Andy Blunden’s Writings / Andy Blunden’s Home Page) Andy Blunden  April 2005 Marx Myths and Legends. Introduction This article was originally drafted …

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Does History Rhyme? “Fascism and Big Business (October 1938) — Daniel Guérin | Marxist Internet Archive”

September 11, 2015

[Source: Marxist Internet Archive]   Daniel Guérin Fascism and Big Business (October 1938) From New International, Vol.4 No.10, October 1938, …

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Rwanda’s Untold Story. A Commentary on the BBC Two Documentary — Nicoletta Fagiolo | Reset DOC

April 8, 2015

Rwanda’s Untold Story. A Commentary on the BBC Two Documentary by Nicoletta Fagiolo Originally published at Reset DOC Wednesday, 17 December 2014 …

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“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening.” — Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter

April 6, 2015

Norm’s note: I was reminded of Harold Pinter’s last valediction only yesterday by someone commenting in a ‘THREAD’ over at Off-Guardian.  If you …

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A Worker Reads History — by Bertolt Brecht | All Poetry

March 3, 2015

A Worker Reads History Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was …

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