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660 Billionaires See Wealth Rise 40 percent

Chuck Collins Inequality.org
The increase in US billionaire wealth has surpassed $1.1 trillion since mid-March, 2020, more than enough to pay for all the relief for working families contained in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package proposed by President Biden.

Friday Nite Videos | January 29, 2021

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How Reddit Traders Used GameStop to Totally Spank the Wall Street Big Boys. Line Riders | “Les Toreadors.” African Scholars Suggest How to Fix American Democracy. Bernie Raises $1.8M With Meme Sweatshirt. What's Driving Coronavirus Mutations?

This Guilty Land

Eric Foner London Review of Books
A leading historian of 19th century US history reviews two recent books on Lincoln and John Brown, charting the background to the Civil War and its lingering heritage today.

Tidbits - Jan. 28, 2021 - Reader Comments: Dems Should Quickly and Boldly Move Fascism Not to be Debated, But Defeated; Mike Pence as Franz von Papen; Nuclear Treaty Ban-letter from Vietnam; Trouble in Kansas - Help Needed; resources, announcements;

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Reader Comments: Dems Should Quickly Move on Bold Package; Fascism Not to be Debated, But Defeated; Mike Pence as Franz von Papen; Nuclear Treaty Ban - letter from Vietnam; Trouble in Kansas - Your Help Needed; Angela Davis; resources, announcements

Your Last Opportunity: Let's Make Waves Together

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Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront

Left History - Gil Green: Mensch and Mentor

Michael Myerson Monthly Review
The politics Gil fought for in 1934 informed his entire life. For the thirty years following his release from prison, Gil argued against the sectarianism of the Communist Party. Countless times he said, “You can’t have a united front with yourself..

The Right Normalizes Fascism. The Best Response: Normalize It Back

David Ost Foreign Policy in Focus
Fascism is not just about violence. It’s also about politics. Today’s fascists are not embarrassed by their attacks on democracy. They apologize for nothing, ever. They are only embarrassed by the label of “fascist.”

Where Trumpism Lives

Jacob Whiton Boston Review
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.