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Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...

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The Most Important Book of 2025

Paul Buhle Portside
If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

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Readers Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; Before Zohran, There Was Comrade La Guardia; Trump Shames America, Nuclear Options, Negotiation, Netanyahu; Path to Pushing MAGA out of Power; World Council of Churches: Call to End Apartheid, Occupation; more;

Musk's Family Ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi Movements

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in South Africa, and raised under apartheid. His family had ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics. We speak with Guardian reporter Chris McGreal about how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview.

Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It.

William Shoki The New York Times
Discussion of Mr. Musk often misses something: He is a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters. He is in fact a distinctly ideological figure.
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