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Tidbits-July 9 – Reader Comments: World Cup, World Stage, Trump; What the Country Wants and Believes; What’s the Matter With JD Vance?; the Judeo-Bolshevist Target; Take Action – Honduras; Symposium: Forging a Democracy That Works for All;

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Reader Comments: World Cup, World Stage, Trump; What the Country Wants and Believes; What’s the Matter With JD Vance?; Judeo-Bolshevist Target; Take Action - Honduras: The Narco-Dictatorship Returns; Symposium: Forging A Democracy That Works for All

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.

Paul Robeson Defended Jewish Anti-Fascists From Stalinism

Alexey Markin, Maria Markina, Inge Mandos, Leonid Kharlamov, Ziad Nehme, Kirill Medvedev Jacobin
In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand against any form of racism.

How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace

Jeffery Sachs Dropsitenews
Yet, all along, from the very start, I believed in a mixed economy along social democratic lines, not a free market “neoliberal” economy.

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Strangely Lenin

Paul Buhle Portside
This may be the funniest book about Lenin ever published, a generalization difficult to prove because there have been thousands of books about Lenin in hundreds of languages.
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