(Dissident historian Howard Zinn)
Hi everyone. We’ve missed you a bunch, but we’re back after taking some time off this winter. Let’s get warmed up with some links to great news, features, and analysis out there from fantastic outlets and individuals.
New original essays of our own, coming soon!
Video/Audio Features
The U.S. escalates war tensions with Russia, our assault on Yemen, Julian Assange’s battle for freedom and journalism, and more | Breakthrough News:
Israel’s greenwashing of Apartheid | The Katie Halper Show:
Written Stories
Mass politics must be rooted in class struggle | The Real News
We really still need Howard Zinn | LitHub
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He would never want this job. He would have to hang out with frumpy dorks all day. Obama is in the top tier of the beautiful people. He has Netflix series to produce and Chicago parks to bulldoze.
Robert Reich @RBReich
What Governor Pritzker doesn't want to tell you is that he has the tools to help you get through this pandemic. The disaster declarations give him the power to stop utility shutoffs, to order service restored to households, and to stop evictions. Will he?
#NoAmerenShutoffs
Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1949: "Why in God’s name do we want to control the earth? Is it because of our success in ruling men? We want to rule Russia and we cannot rule Alabama. We tried to rule Porto Rico and gave it the highest suicide rate in the world…"
You can read about that now-sadly-out-of-date report here. Stay tuned for another one next month.
Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs
Kinda wild how white people quite literally invented the concepts of “white” and “black” from whole cloth, then invented the concept of the one-drop rule, and then sit around in utter confusion about these concepts they invented and forced the rest of us to believe in https://t.co/hLuNmhAHko
Alex Paterson @AlexPattyy