CNN Exclusive: Early US intel suggests American strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear sites and likely only set the program back by months, sources say. cnn.it/4nh2JUF
CNN Exclusive: Early US intel suggests American strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear sites and likely only set the program back by months, sources say. cnn.it/4nh2JUF
Common anarchist W.
Though it was the major socioeconomic group most supportive of the Bolsheviks, not even the urban working class was united behind the Soviet regime.
University of Virginia's Jeffrey Rossman:
Historian of mass violence Christian Gerlach on problematic aspects of the concept of "genocide".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
And one of my first articles this year and also one of my favorites, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social I talk to Jewish activists around the country who are fighting for a ceasefire and are building a new vision for Jewish life while doing so.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/je...
Noam Chomsky on dilemmas in humanitarian intervention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=77U1...
"Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how" https://buff.ly/3C1ZbD6
"China Is Facing Longest Deflation Streak Since Mao Era in 1960s" https://buff.ly/4jkaeZ6
"One structural feature of Chinaβs economy is that many firms are willing and able to maintain, or even expand, outputβ¦
A Canadian city's police labelled a defense lawyer as "anti-police" and tracked his social media, despite him making no threats.
thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...
Specific mechanisms behind elite domination of society in electoral democracies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwN...
Cannonβs Fifth Rule of Economic Literacy: The price is never the problem.
@MrRBourne on the man-made disaster of California's insurance shortage.
www.cato.org/blog/ca... #WarOnPrices
Early gun control in the American North as a capitalist measure to disarming and disempower an organizing working class.
Japanese gun control begins as an elite method to suppress the peasantry (Kopel, 1992), is relaxed between 1910 and 1945 and then is reimposed by the American military occupation.
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit Americaβs digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
That time a mob of Polish women and a priest showed up at an academic Holocaust conference in Paris and started with antisemitic slurs, because the scholars did not think there was no Polish participation in the mass murder.
Average day for the Polish right-wing.
www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
One of the clearest sex differences is in interest in military history, which is a clichΓ© among boys, before some socialization, and rare among girls.
This continued, in some ways, into the 20th century with the mass internment of the Japanese, as perhaps the most salient example.
Mass violence is typically associated with European, especially 20th century European, history, but, of course, the dispossession and massacre of the Native Americans and chattel slavery in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries were forms of mass violence.
I have received a number of requests for guidance about the current situation in Rojava/Northeast Syria. In the interest of time, I have assembled the following resources from quality sources (in comments). Please share them far and wide!
The @MichaelBerrySho on @ktrhnews cites @CatoInstitute scholars Charles Silver's and David A. Hymanβs #OverchargedBook.
"...why a two-hour trip to @SurgiCareInc costs $9,000..."
1/3
Homicide victims in Canada are very disproportionately Aboriginal, as are offenders.
Police enact and enable gun violence on a massive scale.
About one third of all homicides by strangers are committed by police. granta.com/violence-in-...
British authorities say they have stopped investigating the intentional manipulation of crime lab results that led to wrongful prosecutions because . . . they ran out of money.
apple.news/ACp6z2KZ8RQe...
New defense of a libertarian legal order.
Embracing markets, opposing "capitalism".
c4ss.org/content/16625
Whenever I see people talk about how soft we are becoming as a society I'm reminded of J.S Mill's point that a strong man should want more equality, since he should be enormously repelled by the slavish attitudes induced by subordination and aspire to live among his equals.