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CNN Exclusive: Early US intel suggests American strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear sites and likely only set the program back by months, sources say. cnn.it/4nh2JUF

Common anarchist W.

Though it was the major socioeconomic group most supportive of the Bolsheviks, not even the urban working class was united behind the Soviet regime.

University of Virginia's Jeffrey Rossman:

Extremely violent societies: an alternative to the concept of genocide Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Vol. 8, No. 4, 2006)

Historian of mass violence Christian Gerlach on problematic aspects of the concept of "genocide".

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Jewish Activists Mobilizing Against War Are Finding a New Community As groups gain support, many on the left are looking to reconcile their concept of justice with their heritage

And one of my first articles this year and also one of my favorites, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social I talk to Jewish activists around the country who are fighting for a ceasefire and are building a new vision for Jewish life while doing so.
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YouTube video by Williams College Noam Chomsky on Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

Noam Chomsky on dilemmas in humanitarian intervention.

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YouTube video by BadEmpanada The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy

The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy.

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"Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how" https://buff.ly/3C1ZbD6

"China Is Facing Longest Deflation Streak Since Mao Era in 1960s" https://buff.ly/4jkaeZ6
"One structural feature of China’s economy is that many firms are willing and able to maintain, or even expand, output…

Edmonton Police Tracked a Critic’s Social Media | The Tyee Internal documents show a special unit branded a defence lawyer ‘anti-police’ and closely monitored his online statements.

A Canadian city's police labelled a defense lawyer as "anti-police" and tracked his social media, despite him making no threats.

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YouTube video by PhilosophyInsights How the Political Elites Manipulate for their Benefits (Prof. Randall Holcombe)

Specific mechanisms behind elite domination of society in electoral democracies.

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California Insurance Market: Another Victim of the War on Prices California’s price controls on insurance have turned a wildfire crisis into an insurance market catastrophe, leaving homeowners unprotected and the state-run FAIR Plan on the brink.

Cannon’s Fifth Rule of Economic Literacy: The price is never the problem.

@MrRBourne on the man-made disaster of California's insurance shortage.

www.cato.org/blog/ca... #WarOnPrices

Early gun control in the American North as a capitalist measure to disarming and disempower an organizing working class.

Japanese gun control begins as an elite method to suppress the peasantry (Kopel, 1992), is relaxed between 1910 and 1945 and then is reimposed by the American military occupation.

YouTube video by LibertyInOurTime Why I Am a Left Libertarian | Jeff Riggenbach

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

I understand the impulse to say "this isn't just about porn they're coming for you next" but we should also be able to defend porn on its own merits

Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant.

But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address
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The War Between Polish Nationalism and Holocaust History “Can somebody please explain this to me? Polish protesters in Federal Plaza [New York City],” Sandi Bachom, a documentary filmmaker asked on Instagram, on March 31, 2019. The same may well have been a...

That time a mob of Polish women and a priest showed up at an academic Holocaust conference in Paris and started with antisemitic slurs, because the scholars did not think there was no Polish participation in the mass murder.

Average day for the Polish right-wing.

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One of the clearest sex differences is in interest in military history, which is a cliché among boys, before some socialization, and rare among girls.

This continued, in some ways, into the 20th century with the mass internment of the Japanese, as perhaps the most salient example.

Mass violence is typically associated with European, especially 20th century European, history, but, of course, the dispossession and massacre of the Native Americans and chattel slavery in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries were forms of mass violence.

Defend Rojava against Turkish attacks and Jihadist Militias - #RiseUp4Rojava Defend Rojava: Stand Against Turkish attacks and Jihadist Militias! 02.12.24 FRENCH - GERMAN - SWEDISH - FINISH - PORTUGUESE - SPANISH In the midst of the the ongoing war of imperial and islamist forc...

I have received a number of requests for guidance about the current situation in Rojava/Northeast Syria. In the interest of time, I have assembled the following resources from quality sources (in comments). Please share them far and wide!

The @MichaelBerrySho on @ktrhnews cites @CatoInstitute scholars Charles Silver's and David A. Hyman’s #OverchargedBook.

"...why a two-hour trip to @SurgiCareInc costs $9,000..."
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Homicide victims in Canada are very disproportionately Aboriginal, as are offenders.

Police enact and enable gun violence on a massive scale.

Violence in Blue | Patrick Ball | Granta ‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

About one third of all homicides by strangers are committed by police. granta.com/violence-in-...

Police drop drug-testing probe over lack of funds — BBC News Police say they lack the resources needed to continue their probe into two forensic science firms.

British authorities say they have stopped investigating the intentional manipulation of crime lab results that led to wrongful prosecutions because . . . they ran out of money.

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New defense of a libertarian legal order.

Embracing Markets, Opposing “Capitalism” Gary Chartier: Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn't mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism.

Embracing markets, opposing "capitalism".

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