(libcom.org) Crimethinc examine the history behind the guillotine, its current popularity as a left symbol, and try to suggest a vision of liberation not based around revenge fantasies. 148 years ago this week, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the… Continue reading
JULY 25, 2021 BY SCOTT REMER (counterpunch.org) Image by Jack Cohen. As we struggle to emerge from the COVID pandemic, it’s hard to imagine fending off our economic malaise without addressing the elephant in the room: Wall Street. The 2008 financial crisis destroyed 40% of the world’s wealth in less than a… Continue reading
JULY 28, 2021 By Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect) Replace Fed Chair Powell Jerome Powell has resisted pressures to tighten money, on the correct grounds that the uptick in reported inflation is the transitory result of supply bottlenecks as the economy reopens. Powell has lately given himself a little more… Continue reading
27 JULY 2021/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) PG&E rebuffed SF’s $2.5 billion offer for the city’s grid in 2019, but now the city is power-playing for an appraisal and gaming to force the utility to sell. With the exception of the constant factor that PG&E starts wildfires every summer, plenty has changed… Continue reading
photo from standwithdanielhale.org KEVIN GOSZTOLA · JULY 27, 2021 (thegrayzone.com) “The truest truism that I’ve come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma,” Daniel Hale wrote. This article was originally published at The Dissenter. Subscribe here. As the President Joe Biden winds down United States military involvement in… Continue reading
Issued on: 24/07/2021 – 18:48 (France24.com) Text by:NEWS WIRES4 min Thousands of Hungarians joined the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday to support LGBTQ people and protest against a law that limits teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues in schools. Hungary‘s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in power since 2010, has introduced social… Continue reading
Movieclips Trailers Check out the official Luce trailer starring Octavia Spencer! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Watch Luce Full Movie: https://www.fandangonow.com/details/m… Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AMELIA BLOOMER BORN Amelia JenksMay 27, 1818Homer, New York, United States DIED December 30, 1894 (aged 76)Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States MONUMENTS Amelia Bloomer House NATIONALITY American OCCUPATION Women’s rights and temperance advocate KNOWN FOR Publicizing the idea of women wearing pants which came to be known as “Bloomers” NOTABLE WORK owner/editor… Continue reading
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career.In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal… Continue reading
