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One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw his face grow dark with anger. “What is it, Papa?” “It’s a message from people who think that all Jews should be killed.” This would have been in the late 1950s, a time when the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews in Europe was still fresh in the American consciousness. Not, you might have thought, a good season for sowing murderous antisemitism in lower Manhattan. Already aware that, being... Read more
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In the duel between the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both men lost their nerve.
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 25, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
In Delaware, Corporations Are Dangerously Close to Acquiring the Right to Vote
[Jacobin, via Naked Capitalism 6-22-2023]