The New Capital Complex: Pax Silica and the Embryonic Fascist State - The Philosophical Salon The U.S. attack on Iran is but the latest in a dizzying array of global upheavals – ranging from geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East to the Myanmar ... Read More

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My Favorite Films of 2025: What Makes a Great “Political” Film? My annual favorites list is posted here as part of my yearly ritual. What has stood out for the past several years is how many of my favorite films are made outside of the United States and/or by f…

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Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement Drop Site Daily: October 14, 2025

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Trump’s Sham Peace Plan There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

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Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

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Here in Toronto with Laura Leigh watching the Blue Jays play the Tampa Rays after the past two days presenting and attending a Marxism conference at York University.

Elvis and Panda in one of their favorite sunspots….

Did MLB deceptively edit Vin Scully's call of Hank Aaron's HR in ASG tribute? MLB's use of Vin Scully's iconic call was missing a ton of context.

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The Miami Marlins and Baseball at the 2025 All Star Break A lot has happened since my last post. Namely the Miami Marlins have been one of the hottest teams in baseball. The team set a club record with 11 straight road wins. The lineup has been bolstered …

My latest blog on the Marlins:

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Submitted this to a readers’ poll in the NYT asking for 10 favorite films of 21st Century

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Talk to Her
4. Sorry We Missed You
5. The Shape of Water
6. Selma
7. Perfect Days
8. Bowling for Columbine
9. Fish Tank
10. Summer of Soul

There Is No Such Thing as a Quick U.S. War on Iran Almost a week after Israel launched an unprovoked military offensive against Iran, the Trump administration is on the verge of sending U.S. aircraft to join the fight directly.

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Imperial Power - Global Inequality

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Costas calls out legacy press for paying Trump ‘ransom’ and pivoting to ‘MAGA media’ ‘The free press is under attack. Democracy as we know it is under attack,’ Bob Costas declared this week while accepting a lifetime achievement award

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"It's an order—destroy the neighborhood so Arabs can't return" Israel's destruction of Gaza’s schools.

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Andrew Cuomo Is Worse Than You Even Know The former governor is a corrupt sexual harasser with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New Yorkers’ lives. Why on Earth is he a cont...

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Recession Forecasts Jump After Herds Of Panicked Economists Start Running Off Cliffs NEW YORK—With unexplained natural phenomena having predicted seven of the last eight market collapses, experts confirmed the likelihood of a recession had increased Thursday amid reports that herds of...

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Opinion | They Were Waiting for Trump All Along

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Backstory “Banned For Life*” Pete Rose & Shoeless Joe Jackson This is "Backstory “Banned For Life*” Pete Rose & Shoeless Joe Jackson" by Bluefoot Entertainment, Inc. on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

My son in law snd daughter produced this for espn years ago. It’s good.
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The Late Pete Rose Is Finally Welcome in Baseball’s Moral Slophouse Joe Jackson and Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. The decision is likely rooted the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.

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The Right to Be Hostile - Boston Review Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

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The Times They Have A-Changed BY RICK WINSTON Editor’s note: Back in 2017, at the start of Trump’s first term, I put together for this blog a pair of Trump YouTube playlists (see here and here, but, alas, some links…

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Our latest issue:

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Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why?

7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape Top money-and-politics expert Thomas Ferguson breaks down the real drivers of Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda, from big crypto plans to a new world order emerging.

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The Global Fascist Project: Crisis, Control, and the Struggle From Below The starting point for any analysis of the shocking conjuncture of events now rocking the world – trade wars, genocide, fascism - is the unprecedented

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‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory EAST HANOVER, NJ—As part of the health secretary’s highly publicized pledge to determine the cause of the disorder in the next five months, a wild-eyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly shouted “Show m...

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Our faculty protest of Florida International University’s Board of Trustees decision to cooperate with ICE: