Movie | Sorry to Bother You

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success - which propels him into a macabre universe.

Friday Nite Videos | May 4, 2018

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Stephen Colbert (The Other One) on Michelle Wolf's WHCD Speech. Parody of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows. Movie | Sorry to Bother You. Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Lied About Stormy Daniels. Michelle Wolf Complete Remarks at 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The Border Fetish The U.S. Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice

Todd Miller Tom Dispatch
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The Border Patrol not only recruits from the military and receives military training, but uses military equipment and technology prodigiously. The monoliths of the military-industrial complex have long been tailoring their technologies to homeland security operations.

A Village in Danger of Erasure

Anne Paq The Electronic Intifada
destroyed house
The picturesque Palestinian village of al-Walaja, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, is known for its verdant landscape, agricultural terraces and numerous springs.

It’s Time to Build New, Mixed-Income Public Housing

Tanner Howard Shelterforce
large public housing building
Is today the time to fight for public housing in the United States? That’s the argument of “Social Housing in the United States,” a new report published by the People’s Policy Project, an independent think tank.

There is a Structural Crisis of Capitalism

Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. Frontline
photo of Samir Amin
An interview with Prof. Samir Amin. By JIPSON JOHN and JITHEESH P.M. SAMIR AMIN is one of the world’s greatest radical thinkers alive today. At least for the last five decades, he has been a great source of inspiration for those who dream of an alternative and better world.

Finance and Power: A Portrait of The City of London

Geofrey Ingham New Left Review
The City of London, Britain's financial equivalent of Wall Street, is--like its American co-equal --virtually unrivaled given its capacity to develop a business largely on the basis of using the new post-war world currency, the U.S. dollar, and its corresponding wasting away of British industry.