Fire and Riddles at Hamburg G-20 Conference

Victor Grossman Portside
Victor Grossman reports from Germany, giving a European left perspective on the recently concluded G20 Summit in Hamburg. Was anything accomplished in polished conference rooms and luxurious hotel suites carefully protected from the wild, fiery street scenes? Was it worth hundreds of injured police officers and arrests and millions in damage? His answer: maybe.

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Red Dawn: On China Miéville’s Urgent Retelling of the Russian Revolution

Alci Rengifo Los Angeles Review of Books
China Miéville looks at the Revolution as a hopeful flashpoint that briefly showed the promise of socialist transformation, before descending first into an authoritarian nightmare and then today's corrupt capitalism. Written with an urgency designed for our era of struggle absent clear political ideologies or unified mass socialist organizations, Mieville focuses on the revolutionary moment, using his skill as a story teller to see the participants in real time.

Friday Nite Videos | June 30, 2017

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The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done), Vaccines (John Oliver), Let America Be America Again, Cancion del Mariachi | Maan Hamadeh, From Russia, With an Apology for Trump (Stephen Colbert)

Friday Nite Videos | June 23, 2017

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Mueller Team Paints Picture of Trump-Russia Investigation. Jesse Winchester | Step by Step. We May Not Have Heard the End of the Tapes. Trumpcare Protesters Block Hallway Outside McConnell's Office. Randy Bryce Announces for Paul Ryan's Seat in Congress.

Jared Kushner's Secret Channel to Moscow

Rory Carroll The Guardian
Russia’s ambassador told his superiors that he and Kushner discussed ways to shield White House transition team discussions from monitoring, sources said

Fox News Doesn't Get the Comey Memo

The Trump-Russia probe gets a special prosecutor, and Fox News downplays a purported memo from James Comey suggesting Donald Trump may have committed obstruction of justice.

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