The Merchants of Moral Panic — Thomas Harrington | BROWSTONE INSTITUTE
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
Source: BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization By CHRISTIAAN W.J.M. ALTING VON GEUSAU NOVEMBER 17, 2021 Hannah …
Three Problems of the Revolution — Daniel Guérin | The Anarchist Library | Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog
Source(s): The Anarchist Library / Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog Daniel Guérin Three Problems of the Revolution Spontaneity and consciousness The …
Winter Soldier Investigation Film
Uploaded on May 6, 2008 Winter Soldier investigation into war crimes during the Vietnam War. Film Released in UK and …
Capital Offenses: Hillbilly Elegy and anti-worker mythologies — Matthew E. Stanley |Interantional Socialist Review
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 …
Speech from the Dock — John Maclean | Marxists Internet Archive
Source: Marxists Internet Archive Hat tip to Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, who about the piece write: “I am here as …
Confronting the Stalinist legacy — Corey Oakley (Autumn 2011) | Marxist Left Review
[Norm’s note: there is widespread and extensive confusion, and hence a great deal of distortion and unthinking dismissal, even and especially …
A short history of ‘statism’ in post-colonial Syria: “The origins of the criminal Assad dynasty” — Omar Hassan (Summer 2017)| Marxist Left Review
[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 …
Ooops! And what would ‘Remembrance Day’ be without a bit of remembering: WAR STORIES — David Swanson | World Beyond War
Source: HUNTER OF STORIES by David Swanson, World Beyond War HUNTER OF STORIES The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has …
Political Islam, class and capital. Part 2: Manifestation of centre-periphery crisis — Ardeshir Mehrdad | Middle East 4 Change
Ardeshir Mehrdad Illustration by Ardeshir Mohassess Source: Middle East 4 Change [Norm’s note: to read Part 1 of this series, follow …
The Black Jacobins: A review of C. L. R. James’s classic account of Haiti’s slave revolt — Ashley Smith | International Socialist Review
Note: A .pdf version of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution can be obtained …
TalkingStickTV – Michael Parenti – The U.S. War on Yugoslavia
Uploaded on Aug 16, 2008 Talk by Michael Parenti on “The U.S. War on Yugoslavia” given May 16, 1999 in …
Global Warming: How It All Began — Richard Courtney | Still Waiting For Greenhouse
Norm’s note: I do not necessarily agree with everything that Richard Courtney has to say on climate per se , but I …
Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union — Mario Sousa | Northstar Compass
Norm’s note: if it’s permissible to pilfer one’s own comment left at another blog, then by way of a short preamble: …
The Wage System — Peter Kropotkin 1920 | Marxist Internet Archive
Source:Marxist Internet Archive The Wage System First Published: Freedom Pamphlets No. 1., New Edition. 1920. Transcribed: by EndPage.com. …
Marx Myths and Legends. Introduction — Andy Blunden
(Andy Blunden’s Writings / Andy Blunden’s Home Page) Andy Blunden April 2005 Marx Myths and Legends. Introduction This article was originally drafted …
Does History Rhyme? “Fascism and Big Business (October 1938) — Daniel Guérin | Marxist Internet Archive”
[Source: Marxist Internet Archive] Daniel Guérin Fascism and Big Business (October 1938) From New International, Vol.4 No.10, October 1938, …
Rwanda’s Untold Story. A Commentary on the BBC Two Documentary — Nicoletta Fagiolo | Reset DOC
Rwanda’s Untold Story. A Commentary on the BBC Two Documentary by Nicoletta Fagiolo Originally published at Reset DOC Wednesday, 17 December 2014 …
“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening.” — Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter
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 …
A Worker Reads History — by Bertolt Brecht | All Poetry
A Worker Reads History Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was …
Taking Sides 