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Last Week Tonight On ICE and DHS

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About the Red Summer of 1919

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More can be found here .  Bonus: Claude McKay 's " If We Must Die " If we must die, let it be not like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Was Muammar Gaddafi Right?

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Hard To Negotiate When One Side Tries To "Unalive" the Other Before Negotiations (Or: "Can Ukraine and Russia Make Peace?")

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The Story of Highland Beach.

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Macro Rubio Goes Full Colonizer (Or, What a Difference a Week Makes!)

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 Remember when most of Europe were freaking out about President Trump's obsession with controlling Greenland (and not in a, "I will compensate the Danish" way but more of a, "I'll just take it" way)? Well now that the Trump White House (via Marco Rubio) is setting their colonial and militaristic sights on countries run by Slavs and non-white people , Europe is breathing a sigh of relief: For the "too long, didn't watch" crowd:   Nothing says "all is forgiven" like the United States telling Western Europeans that they are not on the imperialist menu. Let's close with Richard Wolff setting some things straight:

Whitney Webb Called It Years Ago.

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Why The Pushback Against Black History?

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"It's All Connected."

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 Palestine, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Congo and others: