Hastings Law Grapples With Its Founder's Involvement in Native Massacres
A reporter dives into California’s disturbing history of state-sponsored killings of Indians.
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A reporter dives into California’s disturbing history of state-sponsored killings of Indians.
But he warned that the coming winter months threaten to undo the state's gains against the coronavirus.
There’s a lot of news this week. The new Israeli government is pushing forward on settlement expansion despite surprisingly strong lip service against it from the Biden administration. And the unapologetic support for BDS from Omari Hardy, a progressive candidate for Congress in Florida, has caused a Jewish newspaper to smear him as a reincarnation of Hitler– and the Democratic Majority for Israel has leaped in to smear Hardy as an antisemite.
After months of drought and wildfires, the weather change is a hopeful sign for an end to fire season.
In his “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848), published together with Frederick Engels, Karl Marx calls for “measures” — by which he means “despotic inroads on the rights of property” –, which would be “unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production,” that is, bringing about socialism-communism. Marx’s measure number five reads: “Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” This is a rather perspicacious postulation, especially as at the time when Marx form...