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Samir Amin on the Theory of Multipolarity

Monthly Review Editors, Orinoco Tribune. Popular Resistance - Strategize!
For Amin, the struggle against imperialism required a delinking from the law of value on the world level centered in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, and its replacement by a more “polycentric” or “multipolar” world order...

How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media — and Won the Presidency

Aidan Ryan The Boston Globe
“The real threat to the mainstream media as we know it is that there now exists a successful model for avoiding them that didn’t before Nov. 5,” said Michael Socolow, a media historian and professor of journalism at the University of Maine.

This Week in People’s History, Nov 13–19

Portside
An image of Karen Silkwood's face with the text, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1974), Whatever Became of William Dawson? (1934), Are You Listening, Nixon? (1969), Ornette Coleman Takes Manhattan (1959), Who Says, Crime Doesn’t Pay? (2019)

Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat. 
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