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fpif.bsky.social @fpif.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Mapuche Struggle Under the New Far-Right Chilean Government Author: Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social
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The Mapuche Struggle Under the New Far-Right Chilean Government - FPIF
Ethan Madarieta discusses the colonial foundations of the Chilean state.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
‘This is Also a Love Story’ is back in the Irish bestsellers list, I think for the fourth week in total. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy, it means a lot 🙏💖
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I don't get why people who wouldn't think of cheering for Israel or Russia in international sporting events due to their invasions, occupations, illegal annexations, and war crimes are nevertheless supporting Morocco in the World Cup despite what they are doing to Western Sahara.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Dylan Baun, Beirut Radical: A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War (New Texts Out Now)
Archival fragments—while doing dissertation research in Beirut in 2013, I found an obituary for the subject of this book, Imad Yusuf Nuwayhid (1944-1975), in the pages of the Lebanese Communist Party’...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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The Politics of the NBA Finals
Aside from basketball, this year’s NBA Finals showcased civic identity and political power. Shea Serrano, author of Expensive Basketball, once argued that
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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In Defiance of Peru’s Colonial Legacy, Cholas Reclaim Identity
Scholar Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa argues that dominant narratives in Peruvian academia have made it difficult to think of subversives as peers. Olga
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Barbarism spreads Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.
Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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The FIFA World Cup and U.S. Southern Host Cities – Scalawag
FIFA host city committees should be prioritizing the rights of the vulnerable and unhoused to protect them from the impacts of the tournament.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Trump and Netanyahu’s War on Lebanon Threatens Stability and Long-Term Security - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/17/t...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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The GCC Economies Are Facing the Challenges of War - FPIF
Trump’s apocalyptic prioritization of Israeli interests has weakened the interdependence of the Gulf States.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
America’s War of Choice is Israel’s War of Necessity #CounterPunch
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America’s War of Choice is Israel’s War of Necessity
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Cuba in Crisis: The Role of Civil Society - FPIF
The left remains divided on how to evaluate the revolution’s impact.
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Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
W.E.B. Du Bois and Civil Society - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/25/w...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/02/2026
In Opinion “Every day and night, in the neighborhoods most affected by ICE raids, volunteers stand on street corners and patrol the blocks, phones and whistles ready,” Will McGrath writes. “We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all.”
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Opinion | How We Resist ICE: Car Pools
In Minneapolis, people ignore the cold to defend their neighbors from ICE.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/11/2025
‘Celebratory defiance recurs throughout the exhibition. Sometimes it’s deployed as a deliberate political tactic.’ Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) visits ‘Resistance’, Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/10/2025
‘To be held without charge and questioned under threat of criminal prosecution without a lawyer is otherwise unheard of in British law. At a port of entry or exit, this cornerstone of British justice no longer applies.’ Asim Qureshi on misuses of the Terrorism Act: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Asim Qureshi · Short Cuts: Misuses of the Terrorism Act
Thousands of people each year are detained and questioned under Schedule 7, the majority of them from ethnic minority...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/10/2025
The answer to corruption is publicly financed campaigns. This should be the biggest takeaway from NY’s mayoral race. Thanks to public financing, corrupt oligarchs are about to lose the mayoral race. Our piece for @thenation.com based on our new book MASTER PLAN — pass it on: LeverNews.com/book
The Nation story on publicly financed campaigns
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 24/10/2025
"[R]eproductive punishment." "The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation, menopause, and post-surgical healing, is not protected within carceral institutions." "Reproductive aging in this context is not simply biological. It is political." #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
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The Furnace: Climate, Confinement, and the Cost of Reproductive Aging Behind Bars – Scalawag
The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation and menopause, is not protected within carceral institutions.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 20/10/2025
Daniel Falcone: @danielfalcone.bsky.social -------------------------------------- Subscribe to Scalawag's newsletters: scalawagmagazine.org/sign-up/ Donate to Scalawag: scalawagmagazine.org/support/
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Mainstream Media Miss the Global Significance of Counterrevolution in Sudan
This is a war against civilians and against a truly pro-democracy revolution, says Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/10/2025
‘Does Pico really belong to the Renaissance? Or is our whole idea of the Renaissance hopelessly flimsy, nothing but a collection of fantasies about what it means to be modern and human?’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Pico della Mirandola: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory
Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Here’s an idea for a reporter: Gather some retired cops or MPs together and show them how ICE handles hecklers and protesters. I guarantee you’ll get some amazing copy. Especially if your outlet lets you reprint profanity.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 12/08/2025
Daniel Falcone: @danielfalcone.bsky.social Rebecca Karl: www.chinafile.com/contributors... Karen Miller: www.pennpress.org/978151282516... Margaret Power: truthout.org/authors/marg... Prasannan Parthasarathi: www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo... CounterPunch: @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
📕 post: this one publishes in November.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
On Wednesday I'll be in conversation with @sallyhayd.bsky.social and @horatioclare.bsky.social at the Big @foylesforbooks.bsky.social in Charing Cross. Come along, say hi, ask questions, get books signed, 7pm. See you there! www.foyles.co.uk/events/on-mi...
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Final plug for this, happening in London tonight. I will be the chair, so come with audience questions. Ticket price apparently includes a glass of wine. www.foyles.co.uk/events/on-mi...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
African Migration and the Violence of Global Capitalism  - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/08/a...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Albanese’s Bravery Merits the Nobel Prize
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Frantz Fanon: Algeria's independence hero 100 years on – DW – 07/20/2025
Frantz Fanon was one of the major anti-colonial thinkers of the 20th century and a hero of the Algerian liberation movement. He died just before Algeria's independence from France. Fanon would have tu...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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China’s Capitalist Turn
Book Review: Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order, by Yuan Yang, 2024. Viking Press, 284 pp., $30.00
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The FT talking bluntly.
Recommended for you Donald Trump's big, beautiful act of
self-harm
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The deportation machine relies heavily on the assistance of local police in Dem controlled cities.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Updates on the Iran-Israel War: Conversations with Leading Analysts
In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes,
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Oggi votate per Zohran Mamdani, non per Cuomo, figlio di Mario.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Russia warns Israel over Iran nuclear site strikes
There are Russian specialists working at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Iran, Israel, and the Crisis of Legitimacy
An interview with Richard Falk.
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LeftonMain @leftonmainst.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Activists and Empires, Old and New
Greta Thunberg and crew threatened to commit the unthinkable – deliver food, first aid, clean water, and child prosthetics to the people of Gaza. Their
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Pierre Nora, 93, Who Probed Role of Memory in Writing of History, Dies
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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History and the Plague of Fascism
Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen, (1935–2021) known
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
End Times Militarism - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/26/e...
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CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump is a bomber and not a builder.
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End Times Militarism
In 2016, in response to a critical yet incoherent ad by the Super-PAC Priorities USA, Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway pushed back against
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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The Trump Presidency Continues Its Destruction of the Ruling Class
The concept of the “ruling class” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions. This article traces the evolution of ruling class dynamics in...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Choice and Its Discontents
Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. The historian and author of The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld, spoke to Jacobin about the comple...
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Daniel Falcone @danielfalcone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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The Tragedy of Realpolitik
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert Kaplan, (Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 135). This book by Robert D. Kaplan is
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Dr Joanne Liu, former head of Doctors without Borders, had her talk at NYU cancelled because they were afraid she would note the humanitarian consequences of the Trump administration's elimination of USAID and its support for Israel's war on Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cuts
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Got this message when I tried signing in to the Social Security website
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