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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so msnbc, the tv network not the schedule three pharmaceutical, has a birthday today. that channel is 25 years old. its hard to believe, especially for those of us who remember the day was born. and yet even at this advanced age there are a lot of misconceptions about msnbc. the first is that all of its anchors have been accused by a sitting president of murdering a young woman in a congressional office bid that is not true, its a myth and we like to dispel it once and for all...

This is an article from our series on septic media by Grover Furr As usual, the invaluable Grover Furr wades into the thick and fetid pools of anticommunist fabrication to destroy many of the myths underscoring the fear and loathing of all things connected with Stalin. Intelligent people have long understood that the Wests deliberate demonisation of Stalin was and remains a permanent psyop to keep people corraled away from examining the promise of communism. The alarms about Stalins "crimes" is...

Las Pozas, un jardin surréaliste grandeur nature au Mexique Publié hier à 07h00 Partage désactivé Partage désactivé Partage désactivé Partage désactivé En imagesJardins extraordinaires (1/6). Le photographe français Tom de Peyret a parcouru le parc de Las Pozas, au Mexique, 32 hectares de végétation luxuriante parsemés de piscines naturelles et de sculptures surréalistes, rêvé par le poète et collectionneur britannique Edward James. « Je ne retournerai jamais au Mexique....

, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 22–August 1, 2021 Nearly four decades after her death, American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) has received the major museum retrospective she has long deserved, Alice Neel: People Come First, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Neel painted over the course of six decades, for the most part, until the last 20 years of her life, in relative obscurity. Her vibrant, idiosyncratic portraits are characterized above al...

Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate An Interview with Gilbert Achcar Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006);  Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010);  Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and  Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016). He was interviewed by St...

The Unmaking of Global Capitalism? internationalization of production and the national firmament of states. The other is that though the American state has been indispensable to overriding, or at least containing, that contradiction, its declining economic and administrative capacity to do so poses a threat to the viability of the globalization project. Against this, in The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Panitch and Gindin 2012), the late Leo Panitch an...

July 9, 2021 MEXICO CITY (AFP) – With larger-than-life projections of her work, music and journal extracts, a new exhibition aims to bring Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo’s paintings to life to mark the 114 th anniversary of her birth. ‘Frida. The Immersive Experience’ presents 26 of the most emblematic works of the late painter, known for her striking self-portraits often brimming with pain and isolation. The idea is “to get to know Frida’s paintings, which have been around the worl...

New laws legalize police state operations in Germany—Part 2 The new Federal Police Act and other authoritarian laws Germany’s grand coalition government has used the last parliamentary sessions of the legislative period to massively expand the powers of the police and secret services. Largely unnoticed by the public, the Bundestag has passed a total of nine laws and amendments. The first part of this article examined the new laws pertaining to the country’s domestic and foreign intellige...

1921年6月，尼克尔斯基受共产国际远东书记处委派，带着共产国际指示与经费到上海，与来自荷兰的共产国际代表马林会合后，与李达、李汉俊取得联系。1921年7月23日，尼克尔斯基、马林出席了中共一大，并在会前、会中、会后做了大量工作。 但是，1938年9月21日，尼克尔斯却被苏联共产党以犯“间谍罪”在哈巴罗夫斯克枪决。马林则在1942年被占领荷兰的纳粹枪决。 中共一大...

苏晓康：我称之为“失语”状态。过去的共产党、毛泽东是有一套意识形态的，这几代下来领袖魅力锐减。习近平这个政权，连个意识形态都没有。习近平根本就是小学水平，意识形态的主管王沪宁也弄不出什么东西来。对于自己党的历史怎么讲、怎么欺骗老百姓，都没有个招儿，就弄点数字。 这个党过去就是一群土匪，就是个农民党，在二战的复杂形势下夺得了天下。毛泽...