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Planning Against Palestine

"But while this real estate logic of genocide (“the demolition phase”) persists in the minds and actions of key players, the September Trump plan and some of the more detailed proposals that preceded and prepared it—namely the leaked documents detailing the Tony Blair Institute’s (TBI) Gaza International Transition Authority (GITA) and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-linked Gaza Reconstitution Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust—fold that logic into a broader neo-colonial design. I want to argue that this design is both symptom and evidence of the intimate links and elective affinities between the seemingly fringe utopias of the far right, especially in its “techno-fascist” proclivities, and the core ideologies and practices of contemporary imperialism. At a deeper level, what we can see at work in these diagrams of dispossession is the nexus between accumulation and elimination, the genocidal logic of recursive “so-called primitive accumulation.” In other words, to …

The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson, 2020

St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how , , and have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.





A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike -- a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War "Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam" Sale: $19.99 to $1.99 by Craig Whitlock Rating: 4.6/5 (2,083 Reviews)

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Today in Labor History October 2, 1968: The Tlatelolco Massacre occurred in Mexico City. 15,000 students were demonstrating at the Plaza of Three Cultures against the army’s occupation of the University. The army, with 5,000 soldiers and 200 tanks, ambushed the students, opened fire, and killed nearly 300. They also arrested thousands. This occurred ten days before the opening of the Olympics, the same Olympics where Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved-fists in a Black Power salute. The U.S. contributed to the massacre by providing the Mexican military with radios, weapons, ammunition and riot control training. Furthermore, the CIA provided the Mexican military with daily reports on student activities in the weeks leading up to the massacre.

Chilean film maker Alejandro Jodorosky portrayed the massacre in his film “The Holy Mountain” (1973). Chilean author Roberto Bolano referenced it in his 1999 novel, “The Savage Detectives.”

Students in a burned bus. By Marcel·lí Perelló - my personal archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2471104

“... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.”
― Edward Said

Report: Many Gazans fear that Trump's new plan for Gaza is "an American attempt to control Gaza, especially with the deployment of a foreign stabilisation force."

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Trump and netanyahu

'Finding ways of limiting Africans’ advancement was central to ’s strategy for sustaining its dominance over a land so rich in resources that it was often called a “geological scandal.” '

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