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An interview with Fathi Nimer on the West Bank since the war in Gaza, and the history of annexation and occupation. — Read on http://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/fathi-nimer/

During the Trump era, when troops of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA hats, militiamen, and Men’s Rights Activists descended on my city, there was little debate about what to call them: “fascist” seemed simple enough, even if one did not always know what ideology, exactly, moved which knife- or stick-wielding creep. — Read onContinue reading “Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then | The Brooklyn Rail”

The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras. Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminalContinue reading “Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog”

i saw a coyote cross the ocean roadtwo black kitties in the abandoned field in a comradely way you saidwe disagree but soon we be red orange blue banana smoothie we had a time didn’t we

We’re a year into unspeakable brutality, so let’s keep it simple:  there is no electoral solution to the problem of Zionist genocide.  If anything useful comes about in the United States, then it will be at cross-purposes with all these silly dreams of American redemption.   — Read on stevesalaita.com/let-america-be-your-periphery/

Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain “racialized” groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind ofContinue reading “What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like”

Fathi Nimer traces the origins of food sovereignty and the challenges Palestinians face today to effectively put the framework into practice. — Read on al-shabaka.org/briefs/food-sovereignty-in-a-palestinian-economy-of-resistance/

When one is asked to speak on the relevance of Marxism to Africa at this particular time, one is being asked to involve oneself in an historical debate, an ongoing debate in this country, particularly among the black population. It is a debate which has heightened over the last year, and from my own observations,Continue reading “Rodney – Marxism and African Liberation”

They say the father refused to be a collaborator. And the mother, a physician, a specific kind of witness, had looked at her killers the wrong way. She thought they were shit. — Read on mizna.org/mizna-online/how-is-your-devastation-today/

“Every time there is a crisis within the prison system, the government diverts the anger of society and it’s need for a resolution into some … Women in Prison – Ann Hansen (2002?)