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‘Infinite License’

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
An Israeli-American historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies covers the dynamic of a Jewish state that has thrived on Holocaust roots, how that legacy has been exploited becoming an apartheid state, a practitioner of genocide of Palestinians

poetry

Where This Is Leading

Rebecca Foust
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust asks where the current regime is taking us.

food

How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

David Bacon The Nation
ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

film

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

An interview with Jean-Claude Barny Jacobin
In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.

poetry

Small Comment

Sonia Sanchez, From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez From Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez Copyright © 2021 by Sonia Sanchez Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts
Poet Sonia Sanchez asks the obvious question: man or beast?
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