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This Week in People’s History, August 8 – 14

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Advertising poster for the documentary "People's War" about the Vietnam War
Documenting the Vietnam War in 1969. War crime in Yemen in 2018. Face-masks protect from pandemic in 1918. Hip-hop is born in 1973. White House report doesn't see race in 1938. Blowin' In the Wind dropped in 1963. Springfield Massacre in 1908.

The ‘Socialism of Fools’ of the ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Left

William Robinson The Philosophical Salon
Such 'socialism' condemns repression practiced by the U.S. and the governments it supports, yet turns a blind eye to, or even defends repressive, authoritarian, and dictatorial states simply because these states face hostility from Washington.

The Elephant in the Room

There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it.

Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination

Brianna Di Monda Dissent
Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.