Bret Gustafson

Mexicans Demand a Complete Break with Israel As the country’s progressive government drags its feet, the demand to end political and economic relations with Israel is an ever-growing movement.

From @nacla-report.bsky.social
Mexicans Demand a Complete Break with Israel nacla.org/mexicans-dem...

How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents.
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McGill Faculty Wins Unprecedented Vote to Boycott Israeli Institutions – The Rover Professors at McGill join students and other universities in Canada to call the university administration to cut ties with Israeli academic and cultural institutions.

"We won't cooperate with those institutions."

"McGill University's biggest teachers' association is endorsing a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions."

"Eight people voted no, and 104 voted yes."
#Quebec #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Latin America (Review) Rom’s book is an archivally rich account of how Jewish individuals and institutions grappled with rapidly shifting politics—and state violence—before, during, and after the Cold War.

It was a pleasure to review this book, Brazilian Belonging, for NACLA nacla.org/brazilian-be...

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Check out this week's newsletter for original reporting on Peru's uprising and a review of a book on Brazilian Jews. Read as well about U.S.-Venezuela tensions, Peru's new president, Milei's bailout, Guatemala's prisons, and more.

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Stephen Miller selling home after fleeing amid peaceful chalk messages on sidewalk White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.According to ARLnow, the Millers ...

“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.“
Now imagine if armed, masked men were hunting you and your family like animals.

Ecuador’s Paro Protests Autocracy, Not Diesel President Noboa escalates repression and lawfare against protesters, targeting Indigenous people and water and land defenders.

Hey Bluesky 👋 Check out Manuela Picq’s report on the escalated state repression and law fare against Ecuadorian protestors, targeting indigenous people and water and land defenders.

Read more here!

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Impunity and a Splintered MAS pave the way for the Right’s Return in Bolivia As the country heads to an October 19 runoff between two conservative candidates, any hope of justice for the victims of right-wing violence fades.

Impunity and a Splintered MAS pave the way for the Right’s Return in Bolivia nacla.org/impunity-and.... Update on the not-so-great election choices in Bolivia at @nacla-report.bsky.social with my amazing compañera Kathryn Ledebur @katledebur.bsky.social

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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It's worth remembering that while Maria Machado is not Donald Trump, she is an enthusiastic backer of the US military build up in the Caribbean and claims that the extrajudicial strikes against Venezuelan boats are "aimed at saving lives."

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

White nationalist tattoos and fat commanders-in-chief with felony convictions are ok, however.

A historic moment here at Sheridan Circle as the four sons of Orlando Letelier (former Chilean ambassador & government official and fellow at my office) approach the place where their father was assassinated by a car bomb planted by General Pinochet’s thugs 49 years ago.

Put some Benny Hill music on this.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Greg Grandin’s America, América: A New History of the New World – Book Discussion Explore CEPR’s focus areas by topic and region. Our work provides timely, data-driven research and analysis on a broad range of critical domestic and international policy issues.

3 DAYS: Greg Grandin's "America, América" sheds light on Trump's ambitions while offering hope through Latin America's social democratic movements. Don't miss this conversation with @ryangrim.bsky.social! Co-sponsors: @ceprdc.bsky.social @demandprogress.bsky.social 

The Democratic Party is a joke.

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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

In past rounds of moral panics on campus, when “cancel culture” and “trigger warnings” were still the threats du jour, pundits and social media outrage peddlers converged to frame campus protests at large as threats to “free speech.” Responding to the steady churn of outrage-bait framing protesting students as “snowflakes” and “crybullies,” state legislatures across the country passed a flurry of “campus free speech” bills drafted by right-wing think tanks, which expanded the range of anti-protest measures available to college administrators. To be sure, boycotts and deplatforming protests were useful props in these efforts. Still, what made it possible to inflate deplatforming incidents into threats that required expansion of repressive state power was the failure to question a securitized vision of liberty that, since Bush’s “they hate our freedoms” speech, has become increasingly dominant.

How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

Los Angeles Against ICE: Art, Mutual Aid, and Collective Survival From exhibitions to queer spaces for grief, Angelinos forge networks of care and resistance to confront state violence and nurture collective futures.

🔔Check out today’s new publication written by S. Quechol!

🔔Trans Latina cultural critic, scholar and LA native talks about how Art, Mutual Aid and Collective Survival fuels Los Angeles resistant against ICE

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In case they visit the US, 18 U.S. Code § 2441.

Not now, but in the future DOJ HRSP may have the appetite.

Review of Carmen Soliz and Rossana Barragán’s The Struggle for Natural Resources: Findings from Bolivian History Published in NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TJERB.... I reviewed a great book for @nacla-report.bsky.social !

🌿 The Fall 2025 issue is out! 🌿 Guest edited by @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social and Breno Bringel, this issue critically examines the rise of green capitalism in the Americas in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November.
Cover art by Thais Trindade. See more at nacla.org.

A Oaxacan Indigenous Community Fights a New Round of Bogus Criminal Charges The Mazatecan community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón has been subjected to more than a decade of judicial persecution for defending their lands.

"For over a decade, the Mazatecan community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in the state of Oaxaca has faced persecution by the family of Manuel Zepeda, the former municipal president..."

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‘We didn’t understand the goals of the war’: Israel’s inflated Hamas death toll shows lack of strategy in Gaza ‘War dashboard’ showing number of militants killed was objective in itself with no plan for how Gaza could be governed afterwards, say sources in elite Unit 8200

The IDF has a "war dashboard" that tracks killed Hamas suspects. A body count. The US body count in the war in Viet Nam led to dead civilians counted as dead enemies, and this appears to be the same in Gaza. The US lost anyway despite overwhelming firepower. Israel is headed in the same direction.

And in the Social Sciences Division, the Anthropology Department is included in the gutting of PHD programs. The department of Geertz, Sahlins, the Comaroffs, etc. All because a few admins decided to make the school a failing venture capital firm.