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1 week ago | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
Introduction The concept of the “ruling class” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions.[1] This article traces the evolution of ruling class dynamics in the U.S., focusing on key historical fissures from the Nixon era to present as I try to examine both the ideological and institutional manifestations of class power.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
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 essentially a concise essay and demonstrates a way of describing political theory through the lens of literary criticism. As a notable voice in modern geopolitical thought, Kaplan explores the complexities of human nature and the brutal realities of global politics and current affairs.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Daniel Falcone
The Syrian Civil War was the longest and most complex geopolitical conflict to emerge out of the Arab Spring, thus creating a complicated legacy for leftist analysts to interrogate. In this interview, exclusive for Counterpunch, former United Nations special rapporteur, and international relations scholar Richard Falk, breaks down Palestine and Syria and the history and politics of that refugee crisis from the left.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
March 27, 2025, marked 48 years since the death of Shirley Graham DuBois, the prominent African American writer, scholar, and social activist. She was the widow of the prolific academic W.E.B. Du Bois.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Daniel Falcone
Columbia University has caved into a broad set of demands from Donald Trump in an attempt to restore $400 million in federal funding withheld by his administration. Katrina Armstrong, the university’s interim president, announced on Friday that masks would be banned on campus (barring health or religious reasons), policing would be expanded, and curriculum related to the Middle East would come under review, among other new policies.
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2 months ago | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
On March 9, 1970, editors of The Intercontinental Press, Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livio Maitan, Ernest Mandel, and George Novack wrote an article called, “In a World Run by Idiots Can Man Survive?” The Intercontinental Press specialized in political analysis, labor rights, socialism, postcolonial independence, and black liberation.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
truthout.org | Daniel Falcone
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Founded in 1884, the American Historical Association (AHA) represents professional academics and historians that advance the study of history in the United States. With well over 10,000 members, it serves as one of the world’s most influential and robust associations for historians.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute experiential and observational film by Johan Grimonprez. In my view, the filmmaker oversimplified and at times fabricated the intersections of US Civil Rights, jazz, literature, Cold War diplomacy, and the complicated domestic politics of Congo to focus on decolonization and the CIA’s murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961. This is a documentary film that uses dramatic overlay.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
“There are indications that it was unarmed civil resistance led by the resurgent popular committees and local councils, which initially came to the fore in the early nonviolent phase of the revolution back in 2011, that actually wrested control of much of the local governance from the regime.”In this interview, exclusive for CounterPunch, foreign policy expert Stephen Zunes talks about the lightning offensive that resulted in the unseating of authoritarian president of Syria Bashar al-Assad.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Daniel Falcone
IntroductionThis article contains and curates Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson’s collection of Mouin Rabbani’s tweets on the 2024 Amsterdam football riots. Read them while they last. Rabbani, a director of the Palestine American Research Center, is a leading analyst on Palestinian politics and Middle Eastern affairs.
