Here's what we read this week.
Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World - Sharon Lerner / The Intercept
Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes - Anne Nassauer / University of California Press
Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right - Jack Jackson / University of Pennsylvania Press.
Can you hear me? - Greta Thunberg / Communists in Situ
Immigrants as a Weapon: Global Nationalism and American Power - Yasha Levine / Substack
The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth - Matthew E. Stanley and Paul M. Renfro / Dissent
Basic income bows to the master - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein / openDemocracy
The voice from the black hole - Sam Kriss /
More Than A Wall Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders - Todd Miller / Transnational Institute
Everything Must Go - Whitney Curry Wimbish / The Baffler
Here's what Chuck is reading for Saturday's show:
An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz | Beacon Press
Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised? - Lara Whyte and Claire Provost
Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging. / Looking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism - Bruce Dixon | Black Agenda Report
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment - Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz | City Lights Books
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America - David Cay Johnston | Simon & Schuster
And here's what we read this week just for fun:
Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews - Nat Parry | Consortium News
The High-Tech Poorhouse: An Interview with Virginia Eubanks - Sam Adler-Bell | Jacobin
Climate Crisis and the State of Disarray - William C. Anderson | ROAR Magazine
11 Theses on Possible Communism - C17 | Viewpoint Magazine
‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential - China Mieville | Salvage
Bombs in Our Backyard - | ProPublica
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could Destroy Our Nation’s Water Systems - Michelle Chen | The Nation
Lipstick on a Gig: Why We Should Be Very Skeptical of Uber’s New “Portable Benefits” Scheme - Julianne Tveten | In These Times
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
Brexit, Pursued by Despair - Laurie Penny [The Baffler]
“There is no negotiation whatsoever”: Union leader Douglas Izzo talks about labor rights in post-coup Brazil - Brian Mier [Brasil Wire]
#31M: Brasil Prepares For General Strike - Brasil Wire
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future - Thomas Shapiro [Basic Books]
Listen Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? - Thomas Frank [Metropolitan Books]
And further recommended reading:
A Planet of Trumps - Alfred W. McCoy [In These Times]
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives - Matt Taibbi [Rolling Stone]
Agroecology Case Studies - Oakland Institute
The Anarchism of Blackness - William C. Anderson & Zoé Samudzi
Lipstick Fascism: On Lana Lokteff, the women of the alt-right, and the feminization of fascism. - Sam Miller [Jacobin]
The Zuma Dilemma: Hell No, he just won’t go! - Ranjeni Munusamy [Dailiy Maverick]
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the new Social Conservatism - Melinda Cooper [Zone Books]
What is at Stake in the Romanian Protests? - Florin Poenaru [LeftEast]
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future - Raoul Martinez [Pantheon]
Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God - Joseph Daher [Pluto Press]
And further recommended reading:
How a Russian Steel Oligarch and Putin Ally Is Profiting from the Keystone XL Pipeline - Steve Horn [DeSmog Blog]
The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Richard Hofstadter [Harper's]
With Executive Order on Policing, Trump Declares Racialized War on Dissent - Flint Taylor [Truthout]
Making COIN The modern history of an unstoppable bad idea - Tim Shorrock [The Baffler]
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
In the Long Run We're All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution - Geoff Mann [Verso Books]
Assessing Obama: Labor and Trade - Michelle Chen [Jacobin]
Trump's Choice of Gorsuch Endangers Civil, Human and Environmental Rights - Marjorie Cohn [Truthout]
The Private Deportation Machine - Karina Moreno [Jacobin]
The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases - Paul-Olivier Dehaye [Medium]
And further recommended reading:
If Your Party Doesn’t Appeal To Young People, It Will Wither And Die - Nathan J. Robinson [Current Affairs]
On the Travel Ban: An Interview with Darryl Li - Atreyee Majumder [Cultural Anthropology]
On Borders / Race / Fascism / Labour / Precarity / Feminism / etc. - Angela Mitropoulos [Base]
Refugees are already vigorously vetted. I know because I vetted them - Natasha Hall [Washington Post]
With Muslim Ban, Trump and Bannon Wanted Chaos, but Not Resistance - Laleh Khalili [Truthout]
Beyond Resistance – Defeating Trump’s Burgeoning Dictatorship - Elliot Sperber [Counterpunch]
Police in Chicago Public Schools operate with no special training and little oversight - Yana Kunichoff [Chicago Reader]
Interviews for Resistance series - Sarah Jaffe [In These Times]
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
The Patient War: What awaits Trump in Afghanistan - May Jeong [Harper's]
Chicago's Brutal Example - Flint Taylor [Jacobin]
I Have A Scream - Brian Foley [Counterpunch]
Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched—You Can Thank the Black Bloc - Natasha Lennard [The Nation]
Advertising Shit In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance - Anonymous [Dog Section Press]
And further recommended reading:
Key Trump Donor Stands to Profit from Order to Approve Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines - Steve Horn [DeSmog Blog]
Think the Women's March wasn't radical enough? Do something about it - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [The Guardian]
The decimation of the Democratic Party, visualized - Phillip Bump [Washington Post]
Assessing Obama - Jacobin
Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself - Das Magazin [Antidote Zine]
Inaugurating a New Movement - Michell Chen [Dissent]
Ordoliberalism and the Death of Liberal Democracy - Salvage Zone
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein - John Nixon [Blue Rider Press]
Senator-Elect and Former Paramilitary Leader Guy Philippe Arrested on Drug Charges - Jake Johnston [CEPR]
Rex Tillerson Could Be America's Most Dangerous Secretary of State - Antonia Juhasz [In These Times]
The Concept of the Wall - Elliot Sperber [ROAR Magazine]
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
The New Red Scare - Andrew Cockburn [Harpers]
How Centrists Failed Immigrants - Dan Denvir [Jacobin]
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War - Viet Thanh Nguyen [Harvard University Press]
Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea - James Livingston [UNC Press ] / Fuck Work - James Livingston [Aeon]
We Demand That The Washington Post Retract Its Propaganda Story Defaming Naked Capitalism and Other Sites and Issue an Apology - Yves Smith [Naked Capitalism]
Why Anti-Trump Protests Matter - Sarah Jaffe [Rolling Stone] / Fractures in Trumplandia - Sarah Jaffe [email list]
Clash in German forest as red line is crossed - Deutsche Welle
Trump Eats the Planet - Ashley Dawson [Verso Blog]