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Fossil Fascism and Glacial Indifference

Roberto Ciccarelli Il Manifesto Global
Climate indifference and the denialism currently in power in Washington are showing up in more diluted forms in Europe. We have seen it during these days of record-breaking temperatures.

Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times
If there’s a lesson here, it might be about the importance of listening hard to the people telling you what you don’t want to hear.

El Salvador: Between Tourism and Terror

Manuel Pérez-Rocha i Institute for Policy Studies
Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador welcomes tourists with open arms while ruthlessly imprisoning its own people.

This Week in People’s History, Jul 8-14, 2026

Portside
New York City garment workers picketing in 1910 Garment Workers Stand Up to Police Repression (1910), Taking the Declaration of Independence Seriously (1776), The System Was Blinking Red (2001), Surf and Sand Aren’t Private Property! (1896), Hunger Marchers Demand Action (1936)

Banquo’s Ghost

Gerald Horne The Nation
The contradictions of the American Revolution.

The Judeo-Bolshevist Target

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.
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