FRIDAY, 17 AUGUST 2018
Peronism: The Future of Trumpism?
John Peeler: What we can learn from the Argentine case is that, having elected Donald Trump and empowered his white working class base, he will remain a force on our political scene for the rest of his life, and likely even after his death.
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Saving Democracy
Mel Gurtov: Trump has made perfectly clear that democracy, including respect for human rights and accountable, transparent government, is irrelevant to friendship with America.
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California Poets for Resistance
Panelists will share their work and discuss the role of poetry and the arts in general in political resistance. This is art made with political purpose. This is writing as fighting.
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Feedback Friday: Yemen Child Slaughter
Wes King: In the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq War, any meaningful intellectual debate of consequence about the vast (and deadly) reach of US military and defense industry activity worldwide has been effectively muted.
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