Last year, historian Eric Hobsbawn published what would turn out to be his final book, How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2010. I had the pleasure to read it during some vacation time I took last December, and have...
Read MoreThe front page of the New York Times on January 23, 1973 was nothing if not eventful. The country learned of two major events that morning: Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died from a heart attack and the U.S. Supreme...
Read MoreLooks like a case of new regime, same human rights abuses. Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United...
Read MoreThought this over at i cite (which she excerpted from a CounterPunch article) might be of interest: Mob Hysteria When economic violence reaches a certain point, social counter-violence soon follows, and yet it is rarely...
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