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When New York City Stood With Chile

Mariana Fernández Indypendent
The Friends of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende Benefit Concert, on May 11, 1974, was one of the first to openly confront the intervention of the U.S. government in the military coup that had overthrown Salvador Allende a year earlier.

Friday Nite Videos | September 29, 2023

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Get Up, Stand Up | Bob Marley Live at Munich. The Secret C.I.A. Operation That Haunts U.S.-Iran Relations. AOC Speaks at UAW Strike Rally. Insurance Reps Laugh at Denying Claim. The 'Transformer' That Crawls, Rolls and Flies.

The Lost History of East Germany

Samuel Clowes Huneke Daily Beast
Katya Hoyer argues for a closer look at the triumphs and travails of everyday life under socialism.

A New Picture of When We Mated With Other Kinds of Humans

Maddie Burakoff and Laura Ungar AP
DNA evidence shows that H. sapiens mated with groups including Neanderthals and Denisovans. It even reveals evidence of other “ghost populations” — groups who are part of our genetic code, but whose fossils we haven’t found yet.

How Ideology Can Help (or Hurt) Movements Trying To Build Power

Mark Engler and Paul Engler Waging Nonviolence
Bernie Sanders and the Squad have helped pave the way for open socialists to win elected seats in multiple levels of government at a scale that has not been seen in a century. Many progressives are taking a new look at the importance of ideology.
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