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Agnès Varda Is Dead at 90; Influential French New Wave Filmmaker

John Anderson The New York Times
French director Agnès Varda, who died Friday at her home in Paris, was the only woman associated with the new wave during that film movement’s peak. She made films for more than 60 years, and in the latter part of her career focused on documentaries.

The Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Run

Stephen Zunes The Progressive
Biden used his leadership to get a Democratic-controlled Senate to give then-President Bush in 2002 the unprecedented authority to invade a country on the far side of the world that was no threat to the United States.

Theses On the Path to Socialism

Julio Huato Medium
Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.

On the One-year Anniversary of the Great March of Return

Haidar Eid Mondoweiss
crowds of Palestinian demonstrators
“it’s the obligation of the international community...to stop supplying Israel with the weapons that it used to kill Razan and so many others like her. I call on organizations and states to implement our Palestinian call for a military embargo..."