(2024-09-07). Macron's naming of a right-wing government in France and the bankruptcy of Mélenchon. wsws.org By allying with Macron and falsely promoting him as an enemy of neo-fascism, Mélenchon's New Popular Front created conditions for Macron to assemble a government backed by the far right.
(2024-09-07). Monday 9/9: "Bad Faith": Christian Nationalism's Threat to Democracy Film & Panel: Peter Coyote & more. indybay.org Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center | 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy | Napa, CA 94558 | FREE film and panel event…
(2024-09-07). Thursday 9/26: "Bad Faith": Film on White Christian Nationalism Threatening U.S. Democracy (Berkeley). indybay.org Rialto Cinemas Elmwood | 2966 College Ave | Berkeley, CA 94705 | FREE…
(2024-09-07). Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Blood and Bombast. newleftreview.org Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Vinayak Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence and Janaki Bakhle, Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Intellectual biographies of Hindu nationalism's Mazzini-inspired theoretician.
(2024-09-07). Cédric Durand: Landscapes of Capital. newleftreview.org A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the 'rentier stage' of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
(2024-09-07). Sunday 9/8: One City, Two Realities: Eyewitness Reports from Protesters at the DNC. indybay.org New Valencia Hall | 747 Polk St (near Ellis), SF | 7 blocks from Civic Center BART, on/near Muni lines #5,19, 27, 31, 38, 49 | Or online via Zoom (Register: tinyurl.com/FSPReportBack)…
(2024-09-07). Woman suspected of throwing sand at Ben-Gvir held in jail overnight. haaretz.com The Magistrate's Court accepted the police's claim that the investigation could be compromised if the suspect were released. The suspect's mother wrote on X: 'The dictatorship police decided to endanger the life of my daughter, who suffers from a chronic illness'…
(2024-09-07). The CIA: The World's First Secret Empire. scheerpost.com Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Amazon / YouTube / Rumble The CIA's destructive role in world politics since the end of World War II as a secret rogue spy agency controlled by unelected intelligence officers has become so ubiquitous that it can be joked about. But behind the jokes lies a far darker reality: the agency's imperial ambitions have fueled a …
(2024-09-07). Grey Anderson: Imperium Uncloaked. newleftreview.org Grey Anderson on Tom Stevenson, Someone Else's Empire. Lucid anatomization of the American imperium, with a devastating assessment of the UK's equerry role.
(2024-09-07). Insights丨African scholars laud cooperation between African and Chinese enterprises. ecns.cn Mwangi Wachira, former economist at the World Bank and advisor to the Government of Kenya, and Paul Frimpong, executive director and Senior Research Fellow of the Africa-China Centre for Policy & Advisory, were invited to share their insights on China-Africa cooperation during exclusive interviews with China News Network.