Month: July 2022

Book Review, War

Ukraine: Nationalists at War

Radical nationalists, including fascists and Nazis, play a significant role in the war in Ukraine and an even more significant role in the propaganda war. Putin justifies his attack on Ukraine as a crusade to ‘de-Nazify’ the country, while some pro-Ukrainian propagandists describe the Putin regime as fascist.

5 min read

Book Review, Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Technology, Work

Automation: An Open Letter to Andrew Yang

Dear Andrew Yang I followed with interest your campaign as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primaries. You are widely known for advocating Universal Basic ...

8 min read

Book Review, healthcare

Gambling Till You Drop

Natasha Dow Schull, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press, 2012). This is a book about gambling machines. Gambling machines are everywhere. They occupy most ...

3 min read

War

Many Ukrainians Do Not Want To Fight!

Ukrainian nationalist propaganda, reproduced in the Western corporate media, projects an image of Ukrainians as a nation united in armed resistance to Russian aggression. However, many ordinary ...

4 min read

Imprisonment

Calhoun Correctional Institution: A Gladiator School

Calhoun Correctional Institution is one of fifty major prisons operated by the Florida Department of Corrections, the state’s largest agency. It is in Blountstown, Calhoun County in ...

13 min read

media, Politics, War

War in Ukraine — Debate in Germany

On May 6 The Guardian carried an article about two open letters addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz that had been published in the German press at the beginning of ...

5 min read

Capitalism, healthcare, Housing, Politics, War

News From Canada — July 2022

Our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada discuss the cost of living, the shortage of family doctors, coyotes, election results, women's shelters, guns, abortion, and rents.

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