American Interregnum

Nancy Fraser New Left Review
Militant anti-racist activity coincided with the pandemic due to the realization that these expressions of structural racism – disparate vulnerability to death from the virus, disparate vulnerability to death from police violence -- were linked.

How Gun Rights Helped Mainstream Neo-fascists

Dave Anderson Boulder Weekly
Larry Pratt, a former Virginia state legislator, suggested that local armed militias should be formed to help in the war on drugs. His models were the civil defense patrols in Guatemala and the Alsa Masa vigilantes in the Philippines

Friday Nite Videos | April 9, 2021

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The National Debt | John Oliver. Biko | Peter Gabriel. Jordan Klepper Debunks “Good Guy With a Gun”. Fighting for Equality in Computer Science and Beyond. Why So Many QAnon Believers Are Evangelical Christians.

Biko | Peter Gabriel

“You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.” Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, the Cape Town Ensemble, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, Taiko Project, Dynamic Music Collective and Silkroad.