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Mobile, Alabama, Just Diluted the Black Vote Through Annexation

Ryan Zickgraf Convergence
Last week’s annexation vote in Mobile, Alabama, added thousands of white residents, reducing the black-white voter gap in the majority-minority city. It’s an effective strategy used by city elites to artificially inflate conservative political power.

Why Capitalism Is Leaving the US in Search of Profit

Richard D. Wolff CounterPunch
The economic consequences of capitalism’s profit-driven movement out of its old centers (Western Europe, North America, and Japan) brought capitalism there to its current crisis.

Atomic Frankenstein

R. Howard Bloch, Ellen Handler Spitz The American Prospect
‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction

Defend Boris Kagarlitsky!

Hank Reichman Academe Blog
News of Kagarlitsky’s arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists.
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