If There Isn’t Justice, Mexico Will Explode
Drug war militarization is actually used to create partnerships between governing elites and drug cartel leaders.
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The Nadir of Race Relations in America
In the era from 1890 to 1940, the United States actually went backward in race relations, got more and more racist. This is almost completely left out of American history textbooks.
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Remember “Making the World Safe for Democracy”?
The Arab Spring presented an enormous opportunity to put forward some of the ideals that we hold to be true, like democracy as a universal principle. Where were we in supporting that in Egypt when there was a military coup?
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Ferguson is Not Unique
These broader structural issues of police brutality, loss of economic opportunity, and exploitative practices are happening everywhere.
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You Are Not A Loan
Just as it’s impossible for a worker to conduct a strike without the rest of her coworkers joining her, it’s not possible for debtors to resist the structural mechanisms that put them in debt simply by individuals refusing to pay. It has to be a collective action.
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Zombie Prisons
We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass incarceration shrinks.
“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.”
The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
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Long Way From Maidan: A Report from Donetsk
There’s a lot of real old-fashioned class antagonism at the heart of this. When, on top of that class antagonism, you add an actual war with shooting, it becomes really ugly.
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Counterinsurgency in America
There really is no choice but to organize a politics that is consciously resistant to the mass Black incarceration state. And it must be done in a confrontation with the coercive powers of the state. That is, the police.
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The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
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