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New Way of Teaching Columbus: Putting Him On Trial for Murder

Amy Graff San Francisco Gate
A longtime educator has created an increasingly popular lesson that turns the classroom into a courtroom and asks students to put Columbus, his crew, the King and Queen of Spain and the indigenous people on trial for murder.

Distorting the MS-13 Threat

Sonja Wolf NACLA
The Trump administration’s depiction of Central American gang members conveniently overlooks the United States’ role in perpetuating gang violence at home and abroad.

The Idea of Socialism

Tomas Stølen Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
An English translation of this significant book by an important contemporary German philosopher reached U.S. bookstores earlier this year. Here, Tomas Stølen reviews the German edition, which was published two years ago.

The Scandal of Pentagon Spending

William D. Hartung TomDispatch
How do you spell boondoggle? It's clear, it spells Pentagon and it goes directly to private corporations and much of it is then wasted on useless overhead, fat executive salaries, and startling (yet commonplace) cost overruns on weapons systems and other military hardware that, in the end, won’t even perform as promised.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars

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World’s richest propaganda squad; The Janus head; Hate them some Kap; Yes, even architecture; Rapist knows best; Liberation librarians