In September 2003, British soldiers in Anzio Company, in the First Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, beat an Iraqi civilian to death; his name was Baha Mousa, and he was a 26-year-old father-of-two, who worked as a hotel receptionist in Basra. In addition to killing Mousa – an act which the International Criminal Court concluded constitutedContinue reading “Exposing Britain’s Depravity in Iraq: A.T. Williams’ A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa — Liberated Texts”
Category Archives: Lit Review
Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce. — Read on theconversation.com/are-sanctuary-policing-policies-no-more-than-a-public-relations-facade-269245
Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror – Boston Review
I’m not sure if it’s amnesia or just wishful thinking, but it seems like the well-documented terror tactics of municipal, county, and state police have just disappeared from people’s memory. Chicago and Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE has been extraordinary and well-organized, have histories of police violence that rival anything ICE agents are doing.Continue reading “Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror – Boston Review”
ORAL HISTORY: Jalil Muntaqim “They changed the environment, but the war continued.”
From the notes from the black underground collection: From launching Arm the Spirit, the first revolutionary prison newspaper, to co-founding the Jericho Movement, Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army veteran, Jalil Muntaqim details stories of resisting empire and organizing for a new world. — Read on http://www.grassrootsthinking.com/oral-history-jalil-muntaqim-they-changed-the-environment-but-the-war-continued/
Palestine Solidarity in the Age of Reaction – Steve Salaita
Should people involved with the Palestine solidarity movement in North America, traditionally leftist in orientation, seek alliances with the political right? — Read on stevesalaita.com/palestine-solidarity-in-the-age-of-reaction/
Detention and Torture – CounterPunch.org
This reason is simple and can be traced to the elements of administrative detention itself: the absence of human rights safeguards and normal legal guarantees such as due process, habeas corpus, fair trial, confidential legal counsel, and judicial review; vague and confusing definitions, standards, and procedures; inadequate adversarial procedural oversight; excessive Executive Branch power stemmingContinue reading “Detention and Torture – CounterPunch.org”
errand #29
The united states is a country where cruelty has been perfected.
Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson
Beginning in June, the Amtrak Police Department (APD) had been running a plainclothes sting operation in New York’s Penn Station bathroom—the old one near Eighth Avenue, not any of the new Moynihan ones. Writing for The City, Gwynne Hogan reported a clear “surge” of twenty-three arrests for “public lewdness” during Pride month alone. In theContinue reading “Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson”
Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism’
David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History’ offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism’s revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. — Read on cosmonautmag.com/2025/12/process-and-totality/
ways of making love #2 (for BM)
bird intelligence caracols and mouses mistakes alphabetization by emotions orange peels in tea leaves leaving your lover for a while coming back disastrously teaching someone how to talk to you buying bananas for everyone even that woman you dislike being extraordinarily patient spitting in the face of danger opening a new account fire breathing toothpasteContinue reading “ways of making love #2 (for BM)”
Aida Rends 