How Bosses are (Literally) Like Dictators
Vox
Americans think they live in a democracy. But their workplaces are small tyrannies.
Soon Astronauts May Be Able to Enjoy Fresh Baked Bread in Space
Modern Farmer
Although you still can’t get a decent sandwich in space (who knew?), plans are underway to develop a special dough for low-crumb bread and an oven in which to bake it on the ISS.
A Wide World of Winless War
TomDispatch
Globe-Trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces Already Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017.
Myths of Globalization: Noam Chomsky and Ha-Joon Chang in Conversation
Truthout
What exactly is driving globalization? And who really benefits from globalization? Are globalization and capitalism interwoven? How do we deal with the growing levels of inequality and massive economic insecurity? Should progressives and radicals rally behind the call for the introduction of a universal basic income?
Remembering Peekskill
Jacobin
The Peekskill Riots tell the story of postwar reaction. They document the conservative impulse and structural readjustment programs that blocked the American left’s ability to establish a social-democratic United States following World War II, but they also tell the story of resistance to homegrown fascism: a resistance the reemerged in the 1960s and is rising again today.
Ten Myths About #NoJusticeNoPride
Rewire
No Justice No Pride members have elevated an urgent, national conversation. And we’re not sorry.
The Militarization of U.S. Policy on Latin America Is Deepening Under Trump
Foreign Policy in Focus
Central America policy-making, hardly an open book to begin with, is set to become more secretive. What we do know is U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be there, as will Vice President Mike Pence — and of course, General John F. Kelly, the director of Homeland Security and the previous head of SOUTHCOM.
Friday Nite Videos -- January 27, 2017
Portside
President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation. Musical Internationalism | Groove in G. Radical Brownies. Russia Treason Arrest Seen as Tacit Corroboration of US Intel. Kellyanne Conway - SNL.
President Donald Trump's First Negotiation Was A Humiliation
Lawrence O'Donnell explains why Mexican President Peña Nieto's decision to not attend a scheduled meeting with Pres. Trump over the border wall is Trump's first humiliation on the global stage and sends a message to other world leaders about future negotiations.
Musical Internationalism | Groove in G
Starting with musical group Tinariwen in West Africa, Playing for Change traveled the world asking musicians to add to the song. A groove in the key of G transformed into a global jam with its roots in the blues.
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