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Mulvaney Corrects Jesus

Sam Pizzigati Campaign for America's Future
Compassion, says Trump's budget chief, explaining Trump's new budget, is measured in how many people you kick off social programs for poor and working people.

Jared Kushner's Secret Channel to Moscow

Rory Carroll The Guardian
Russia’s ambassador told his superiors that he and Kushner discussed ways to shield White House transition team discussions from monitoring, sources said

Movie: The Zookeeper's Wife

A true story of resistance to Nazism based on the diaries of Antonina Żabiński, now in theaters. A review and comment on its relevance to Israel/Palestine here.

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2017

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Stephen Has an Unpopular Opinion on Trump's Budget. Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards Jam. To Donald Trump, from Vicente Fox. Movie: The Zookeeper's Wife. Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues.

Terror in the French Revolution and Today

Samuel Farber International Socialist Review
The author argues that the Terror of the French Revolution was a price worth paying, and that the lessons from overthrowing the old regime should temper today's trend of maligning oppressed people's resort to violence as itself a rationale for ongoing class injustices. The reviewer, no critic of revolutionary struggle, argues that the author overemphasizes the pursuit of vengeance then and now involved at the expense of politics and a weighing of class forces.