From CommonDreamsPublished on Friday, October 23, 2020byCommon Dreams'Cruelty Was Always the Plan': Pressed on Mass Family Separations in Final Debate, Trump Smears Victims as 'Bad People' "The Trump immigration agenda is defined by cruelty: it's responsible for six children dying in cages, forced women into unnecessary surgeries … [Read more...] about 'Cruelty Was Always the Plan': Pressed on Mass Family Separations in Final Debate, Trump Smears Victims as 'Bad People'
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From National Security ArchiveWashington D.C., October 22, 2020 - On October 23, 1970, one day after armed thugs intercepted and mortally wounded the Chilean army commander-in-chief, General Rene Schneider, as he drove to work in Santiago, CIA Director Richard Helms convened his top aides to review the covert coup operations that had led to the attack. “[I]t was … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/schneider-official-portrait.jpg?itok=Cw_dDyBI" width="100" height="100" alt="Schneider official portrait" title="Schneider official portrait"></div></div>
Aaron Sorkin Turned the Chicago 7’s Militancy and Defiance Into Bland Liberalism
From JacobinYou don’t have to know a lot about the actual history that inspired Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 to get the sense that Aaron Sorkin’s version softens, tames, and fictionalizes these wild events of the late 1960s. Sorkin starts by capturing various … [Read more...] about Aaron Sorkin Turned the Chicago 7’s Militancy and Defiance Into Bland Liberalism
Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
From JacobinInterview by Derrick O'Keefe … [Read more...] about Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
How Australia’s Rich Tried (and Failed) to Cancel Football
From JacobinClass Conflict in Australian Rules Football Working-class attendance at matches grew over the late nineteenth century, partly because the industrial working class of Melbourne had more money for leisure than their British counterparts. By 1888, a football game between Carlton and South … [Read more...] about How Australia’s Rich Tried (and Failed) to Cancel Football