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State Of Emergency As Ecuador Heads To The Polls

August 20, 2023 Aminta Buenaño, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Democracy, Ecuador, Elections, History, Violence

Once upon a time, Ecuador was considered an island of peace. Once upon a time, we were one of the safest countries in the continent. Once upon a time, the prisons worked, the Ministry of Justice functioned, and we felt that we had a government and a leader. A time when we saw our taxes turned into infrastructure, roads, hospitals, schools, and parks; there were fewer beggars in the streets and more children in schools. How did a country as beautiful as Ecuador become hell? Until recently, the hope of better winds for our nation made emigrants return with the promise of a brighter destiny, after the ferocious robbery of the bank crisis of 1999, which led to the exodus of thousands of Ecuadorians plunged into despair and poverty.

CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide

August 17, 2023 Kit Klarenberg, MintPress News. Educate! Brazil, CIA, Genocide, History, Indigenous Peoples, US Imperialism

From April 1964 to March 1985, a military junta ruled Brazil with an iron fist. Its crimes against humanity throughout this period were extensive, including institutionalized torture, imprisonment, forced disappearances and mass murder. Typically, the victims were political opponents of the regime, although the country’s indigenous population was a specific, dedicated target. In most cases, their crime was objecting to economic “reform” projects that destroyed their homes or simply living in the wrong place at the wrong time. With the backing and direction of the World Bank, the junta forcibly displaced indigenous people and desecrated their lands to extract valuable natural resources for Western capital.

The Tragedy Of Misunderstanding The Commons

August 17, 2023 Steven Stoll, In These Times. Educate! Capitalism, Connecticut, History, The Commons

Guilford, CT — A thousand people gather on the Green, sharing umbrellas and straining to hear the valedictorian above the thunderstorm. She’s talking about the Green, a sixteen-acre park at the center of town where townspeople get together for concerts, picnics and the annual high school graduation. The speaker does not mention that we are sitting over bodies interred in the seventeenth century, for the Green has served other purposes: At various times it’s been a burial ground, a marching ground, a grazing ground and even a campground for townsfolk who lived too far from church to make it to town and home in the same day.

Atomic Bombing Of Japan Was Not Necessary To End WWII

August 8, 2023 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, History, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Oppenheimer, Soviet Union, USSR, World War II

It is very common for Western governments and media outlets to tell the rest of the world to be very afraid of North Korea and its nuclear weapons, or to fear the possibility that Iran could one day soon have nukes. But the reality is that there is only one country in human history that has used nuclear weapons against a civilian population – and not once, but twice: the United States. On the 6th and 9th of August, 1945, the US military dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Around 200,000 civilians were killed. Today, nearly 80 years later, it is still very common to hear US government officials, journalists, and educators claim that Washington had no choice but to nuke Japan.

Is America’s Merger Fever Breaking?

August 4, 2023 Stacy Mitchell and Ron Knox, Project Syndicate. Educate! Antitrust, Finance and the Economy, History, Monopolies

In the summer of 1982, the United States government sent corporate America a love letter. President Ronald Reagan’s top antitrust official, William Baxter, who made no secret of his desire to use his position to assist the country’s largest companies, issued the Justice Department’s new merger guidelines, instructing staff how to determine whether a merger violated antitrust laws and should be blocked. Baxter’s new rules made it clear to big business that federal agencies would no longer limit their ability to amass power. An era of nearly unrestricted corporate consolidation followed.

A New Social Contract For America’s Workers

August 4, 2023 Thomas A. Kochan, The Hill. Create! Class Struggle, Economic Security, History, Worker Rights and Jobs

Between 1948 and 1950, the United Auto Workers and General Motors negotiated an agreement that shaped what later became known as the post-World War II social contract. The Treaty of Detroit provided a wage increase tied to the rate of inflation and a 2 percent “annual improvement factor” to ensure workers shared in the economy’s productivity growth. That bargain subsequently became the new norm that companies across the economy were expected to follow. It ensured that as firms prospered and the economy grew, workers would get their fair share of the prosperity they helped to generate.

Nuclear Weapons: Devastation Inside The US

August 3, 2023 William J. Kinsella, Consortium News. Educate! History, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism, ww2

Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project — the World War II program to develop nuclear weapons. As the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, approach, it’s a timely moment to look further at dilemmas wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project spawned a trinity of interconnected legacies. It initiated a global arms race that threatens the survival of humanity and the planet as we know it. It also led to widespread public health and environmental damage from nuclear weapons production and testing.

Lessons From Gramsci For Social Movements Today

August 2, 2023 Mark Engler and Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Fascism, Gramsci, History, Italy, Social Movements

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the 20th century. Historians point out that “If academic citations and internet references are any guide, he is more influential than Machiavelli.” And his impact on the way we think about the processes of social change has been described as “little short of electrifying.” The accomplishments of Antonio Gramsci, born in Italy in 1891, are all the more remarkable considering that his life was both short and notably difficult: His family was destitute in his childhood; he was sick for much of his life; he spent the prime of his adulthood confined to prison by Benito Mussolini’s fascists after his own party’s attempts to foment revolution had failed; he was often denied access to books during his incarceration; and he died at the age of just 46.

Moncada: The Dawn Of The Cuban Revolution

July 28, 2023 José Ernesto Novaez Guerrero, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Cuba, History, Neoliberalism, Revolution

July 26, 2023 marks 70 years since the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in eastern Cuba. The attack on Moncada is of fundamental importance in the history of Cuba. This is not only because of the military importance of the fortress — the second biggest after Columbia in Havana — but also because of the bloody repression carried out by the tyrannical regime, which took dozens of valuable lives from a generation that with its blood would change the destiny of the island. As a small tribute, it would be fitting to recall why the attack on Moncada was a turning point for the country.

The Journey To Medicare’s 58th Anniversary

July 28, 2023 F. Douglas Stephenson, Informed Comment. Educate! Congress, Health Care, History, Medicare, Medicare for all

The most successful U. S. health insurance program, Medicare, was enacted ln July,1965, to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the disabled regardless of income or medical history. In the 58 years since, Medicare has become living proof that public, universal health insurance is superior to private insurance in every way. Medicare is more efficient than private health insurance and is administered at a cost of 3 percent to 4 percent, as opposed to private, for-profit health insurance, which has for-profit/administrative costs above 15 percent. Medicare’s costs have risen more slowly than those of the private health insurance industry.

Poverty In Britain: From Feudalism To Neoliberal Capitalism

July 27, 2023 Henry Heller, Canadian Dimension. Educate! Capitalism, Class Struggle, Europe, Feudalism, History, Neoliberalism, United Kingdom (UK)

The sixteenth century saw the beginnings of capitalism in England. The capitalist relation—employers buying labour and workers selling their labour power in exchange for wages—more and more became the norm looked upon by the upper classes as, among other things, the solution to the growing problem of poverty and vagabondage. Certainly charity was offered to the poor. But the poverty of the destitute was held to be their own fault. Therefore, accompanying such charity, a series of Tudor parliamentary statutes including the comprehensive Statute of Apprentices of 1563 forced those without property to find work rather than to remain idle.

Remembering Staughton Lynd’s Life Of Defiance

July 23, 2023 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Anti-war Movement, History, Staughton Lynd, Vietnam War

The radicalism of the 1960s did not fall from the sky—it was built by the uncommon bravery of common people. One of those people was Staughton Lynd, a professor who accompanied movements for justice as a scholar, lawyer, and activist throughout his life. A conscientious objector to the Korean War, Staughton went on to join the Civil Rights Movement and oppose the Vietnam War through his scholarship and his actions. He passed away in Nov. 2022 just days before his 93rd birthday. A collection of his writings and speeches, My Country Is the World, was recently published by Haymarket Books.

When The River Roars: 70 Years Of Confusion

July 23, 2023 Helen Kim, LA Progressive. Resist! Biden administration, History, Korea, Korean War, Peace, Wars and Militarism

This year is incredibly important to me and the Korean people. Next Wednesday, July 27th is the 70th anniversary of the armistice of Korean War, the longest war in American history. I turn 34 this year, almost half of that number. And my grandmother, who left a memoir that I finally found in 2015, was aged 70 years when she published these words, translated by me: I only understood what that war was, felt it against my flesh only after I came down from the mountains. Nobody was whole after the war. It spared no one. People either lost their lives, lost their families, lost their legs or arms, or were irrevocably scarred in their hearts. People who survived the war were like people who had already lost their lives once and came back from the dead.

From Stalinism To The ‘Most Avoidable War In History’

July 21, 2023 Natylie Baldwin, Consortium News. Educate! Europe, History, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Natylie Baldwin interviews Geoffrey Roberts on Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Europe’s role, Stalin and World War II. Geoffrey Roberts is an historian, biographer and political commentator. A renowned specialist in Russian and Soviet foreign and military policy and an expert on Stalin and the Second World War, his books have been translated into numerous languages. He is emeritus professor of history at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

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