Category Archives: Lit Review

Days after Abe’s assassination, the Japanese media lifted a longtime taboo about reporting on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s deep links to the Unification Church, the anticommunist religious cult founded in 1954 (with assistance from the Korean CIA) by the self-proclaimed Korean messiah Sun Myung Moon. Soon, these shady relationships, and the politics behind them,Continue reading “WHO WAS SHINZO ABE? – THE SHORROCK FILES”

It is as if Trump’s fascist propaganda here is less oriented toward creating anxiety and rage than alleviating it. — Read on joelowndes.org/fascisms-soothing-affect/

Doug Enaa Greene gives an overview and critique of the political journey of Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialist of America, and his influence on reformist socialism to this day. — Read on mronline.org/2019/05/29/michael-harrington-and-his-afterlives/

Ho Xuan Huong (胡春香; 1772–1822) was a Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê dynasty. The facts of her life are difficult to verify. It seems that … Snail Trails – Brief poems by Ho Xuan Huong

Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system. — Read on http://www.publicbooks.org/autofiction-writers-of-the-world-unite/

In this interview, Louis Allday and Patrick Higgins reflect on Syria and its complicated relationship to Palestine, covering the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024, which was the culmination of over a decade of US-led aggression and subversion against it, to why the fate of Syria is so important, not only for itsContinue reading ““Sectarianism is the enemy of national liberation”: An Interview with Patrick Higgins on Syria, Imperialism and the Palestinian Cause — Ebb”

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come rest my heart?i’ll heal you if you heal me hold my hand it’s close to my heart seei am sotired andmy heart so weary buh bumpbuh bump this world is scary i want to always love youi want always heal you please hold my hand i’ll hold yours too or heart to heart

Since the 1970s, nations have built at least 63 border walls and 2,000 concentration camps euphemistically called “immigrant detention centers.” — Read on http://www.publicbooks.org/borderlessness-must-be-our-future/

Fascism has shown that it can gather mass support. In many nations the far right, including fascism, has become a popular oppositional force to the new globalized imperialism. In many countries the far right has replaced the left as the main political opposition . It doesn’t get more critical than this. This stands the old leftist notion aboutContinue reading “The Shock of Recognition (J. Sakai) – Kersplebedeb”