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
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Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
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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
10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It's Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers
From CommonDreamsPublished on Thursday, October 22, 2020byCommon Dreams10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It's Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning have both paid a tremendous price for revealing U.S. and allied war crimes while the planners and perpetrators face no … [Read more...] about 10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It's Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers
President Trump’s Executive Orders on Critical Infrastructure
From National Security ArchivesWashington, D.C., October 22, 2020 - The Department of Homeland Security describes critical infrastructure as “the physical and cyber systems and assets that are so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on our physical or economic security or public health or safety.” While the Trump … [Read more...] about President Trump’s Executive Orders on Critical Infrastructure