Friday, March 8, 2024

Happy International Working Women's Day?

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  Femicide In recognition of International Working Women's Day, I thought I'd look at the cheery topic of femicide – the specific ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Private Inequity Iniquity

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 “ These Are the Plunderers – How Private Equity Runs – and Wrecks – America” by Gretchen Morgenson, 2023 This is a series of detailed sto...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

College Library Browsing #11: Post-Modern Capitalism?

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  “ Reading Negri – Marxism in the Age of Empire” edited by P. Lemarche, M. Rosenkrantz, D. Sherman, 2011 There's a lot in this book a...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

It Can Happen Here

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  Plan for Fully Authoritarian Rule? “ Project 2025 ” by the right-wing Heritage Foundation and 100 other right-wing groups has become a we...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Shipboard Rebels

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 “ The Creole Rebellion – the Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History” by Bruce Chadwick, 2022 ...and, if that's true, it happene...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

College Library Browsing #10: Sadness is it's Own Reward

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 “ Left-Wing Melancholia – Marxism, History and Memory” by Enzo Traverso, 2016 This book looks at the situation of the Left after what Tra...
Monday, February 19, 2024

The Carceral State of Florida

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  “ The Nickel Boys”  by Colson Whitehead, 2019 This is a true fiction story based on a state boys 'reform' school in Marianna, Fl...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Who Do You Owe?

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  Debt, Prices & Credit: The U.S. Blue Collar Recession Auto loan debt: $1.607 T...