I was called to the jury pool for this, and had to excused the first day because they said it would be 2-3 months of unpaid full time labor, and I would end up homeless if I did that.
The only people who can serve on juries have non-essential corporate jobs or are retirees.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Michael Parenti (1933-2026) died today. He has, as his son Christian said, 'gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky'. A socialist from early into his life till the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way and spoke bluntly the truths that were not always easy to digest in a wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars and suffered the consequences of this because he could keep and then hold academic jobs even in liberal states such as Vermont.
The toughest test for all of us came when the USSR collapsed, and it was in this period that Michael Parenti played an important role in the Battle of Ideas, fighting the reactionary Western media and the intellectual cowardice of his peers. His books on Yugoslavia's destruction earned him terrible attacks, which he brushed off as the necessary price you pay in this struggle. In the midst of it all, Michael wrote 'Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism' (1997), a rebuttal to the anti-Marxist and anti-Communist blather that had begun to infect the world. The book remains an essential tool to fight against the ridiculous anti-communist historiography that demeans the great achievements of the workers' movements.
He spent the last period of his life within himself, which was a loss to the rest of us, and now his departure leaves us without that anchor which he provided.
Michael Parenti. Comrade. Our Red Flag dips in your honour.
The illegal arrest of Sen. Padilla is outrageous. But what did Democrats and mainstream journalists think would happen as they stood silent while shit like this happened under Biden?
The latest US literacy stats have just dropped and they are every bit as grim as you might imagine.
"Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels"
If the quote: “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening” has ever resonated with you, I encourage you to listen to this chat from Jason Hickel: “why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism”
"The Reign of Terror guillotined 2,596 in 15 months, while the anti-communards executed 20,000 in one week. Does this show the efficiency of the guillotine vs. modern rifles or the cruelty of upper vs. lower-class mobs?" - Guy Endore, *The Werewolf of Paris* (1933)