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New Mexico’s Nuclear Rush: Massive Nuclear Waste Site on Fast Track

Sammy Feldblum and Tovah Strong Searchlight New Mexico
Holtec International wants to transform New Mexico into America’s radioactive waste “destination.”
Holtec International’s nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic, and critics fear the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could grant Holtec its license as soon as this summer.

NYC Cops Keep Rioting; Protesters Resist

Dee Knight Democratic Socialists of America
The violence committed by NYPD against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters on June 4 was not an isolated incident. It was just the most recent and egregious example of the normal, regular, everyday state-sanctioned terror we endure here in the so

In This Place (An American Lyric)

Amanda Gorman Split this Rock
“There’s a poem in this place--/a poem in America/a poet in every American,” writes Amanda Gorman in a celebration of the varieties of what is an American.

Friday Nite Videos | February 12, 2021

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Jordan Klepper Asks Trump Supporters: Impeachment V1 or V2? I Love America | Spoken Word. The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage. Judas and the Black Messiah. New Video of Roger Stone with Proud Boys Leaders.

Who Betrayed Us? The Failure of the German Revolution, 1918-19

Neal Ascherson London Review of Books
A new book on the ill-fated German revolution is exhaustive while casting doubt on the possibility of a successful workers’ uprising. The reviewer prefers an out-of-print work that faults the Social Democratic right for saving the extant ruling class