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When Shakespeare Took On Joe McCarthy

A.O. Scott The New York Times
In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators.

What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience

Gerargo Delgado CounterPunch
What I witnessed over those days was not the Cuba of Western propaganda. It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.

Israel Is Stepping Up Its Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

Interview with Sarit Michaeli Jacobin
Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.