History Lessons for Antifascists

Helmut-Harry Loewen CounterPunch
A study of strategies that have shaped antifascist mobilizations over the past century, offers lessons for thinking about an “effective and long-term response to the loose coalition of forces that we saw at the Capitol … [an] entanglement that we will continue to see in the coming weeks and months.”

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo

David Rosen The Progressive
An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture was a war crime that should have been—and should in the future be—prosecuted as a criminal act.

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

Portside
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Completely Predictable Resurrection of John Hagee.

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold

Greg Palast BuzzFlash
How can too many of my fellow progressives, who marched against Bush’s “preemptive” war in Iraq, now find preemptive war by Putin justified by “NATO provocation”?

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left

Matthew E. Stanley Jacobin
From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a prolabor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today as part of the great radical democratic tradition.