Israel attacks Iran. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/culmination
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For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover | Verso Books
Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat…when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily life.” Published nine years before his death this April, and inscribed “for Oakland, for theContinue reading “For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover | Verso Books”
Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation • Ill Will
While others may have forgotten the lessons of the George Floyd uprising, Trump and his coterie surely have not. The 2020 rebellion stands as the primal scene of humiliation and impotency, one which led to the demise of his reelection efforts. Although the National Guard ultimately restored order in twenty-three states, the Trump hardliners neverContinue reading “Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation • Ill Will”
COOPT, EMPTY, EVISCERATE: Nievas and Piketty on Unequal Exchange
The Test of Anarchy
The Paris Commune and ICE vehicles being pelted by chunks of concrete. The Egyptian Revolution and rows of self-driving cars engulfed in flames. The Spanish Civil War and crowds blocking a freeway blanketed with thick clouds of tear gas. — Read on thefrozenseainside.com/the-test-of-anarchy/
The National Guard in Los Angeles | Lawfare
The president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. He’s instead relying on a theory of inherent constitutional power that is far more limited. — Read on http://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in-los-angeles
Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg – Truthdig
There are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon. — Read on http://www.truthdig.com/articles/machine-learning-maga-rise-of-the-christian-cyborg/
Marketing Authoritarianism
Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess. — Read on jewishcurrents.org/marketing-authoritarianism-trump-bukele-disappearance-videos
It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel
Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US — Read on http://www.ft.com/content/8a82a52f-c02b-452b-b7df-ba3bcf94c1e0
Letters
On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants. — Read on http://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/letters
Aida Rends 