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A Life on the Court’s Left

Michael Myerson Jacobin
Leftist lawyer Michael Tigar has spent his life in courtrooms defending a wide range of names big and small on the Left, from Vietnam War draft resisters to Bobby Seale and Angela Davis. He captures them all in a new memoir.

The Imperialist Origins of Saudi Arabia

Yanis Iqbal Socialist Project
The relationship between the US and Saudi Kingdom was famously sealed in a 1945 meeting on the Suez Canal between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abdul-Aziz. In exchange for oil, the US government would provide them with security and military aid