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Marx and the Dutch East India Company

Pepijn Brandon Historical Materialism
The example of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia helped Marx to show that the kind of processes that he outlined as “original accumulation”, though playing out in a particular way in Britain, were fundamentally transnational.

EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian Officials Threatened Morsi Days Before Death

David Hearst Middle East Eye
Qusted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and other jailed Muslim Brotherhood members were told to disband the group or face the consequences. Morsi refused to recognize the coup’s legitimacy or disband the Brotherhood. Within days he was dead.

The Second Democratic Debate

Robert L. Borosage The Nation
Bernie Really Has Transformed the Party. His ideas now frame the debate in the Democratic Party—an extraordinary victory for progressives

Fever Pitch

Craig Sandler Public Citizen
A Surge in Opposition Lobbying and Advocacy Validates the Credibility of the Medicare for All Movement

Justice Kagan’s Gerrymandering Dissent

Andy Kroll Rolling Stone
The liberal justice blasted the Supreme Court’s conservatives for abdicating their duty and putting American democracy in danger