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The Militarization of U.S. Policy on Latin America Is Deepening Under Trump

Jake Johnston 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.

Remembering Peekskill

Jeff Feingold 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.

Myths of Globalization: Noam Chomsky and Ha-Joon Chang in Conversation

C.J. Polychroniou 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?

A Wide World of Winless War

Nick Turse TomDispatch
Globe-Trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces Already Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017.

Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize

Michelle Chen Dissent Magazine
The standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement, fueled by frustration with the empty promises of neoliberal “development” policies.