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HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI – OBVIOUS WAR CRIMES During WWII the nuclear bombing of these two Japanese cities were war crimes.   This was co...

“Damnation,” Netflix series created by Tony Tost, 2017-2018 Television is full of stupid fucking middle class people.  But not this sho...

“Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism – Radical Politics after Yugoslavia, edited by Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks, 2015 One of the mo...

“Socialist Revolution,” magazine of the International Marxist Tendency, 10/2018 Issue May Day Books is the only place in the Twin Cities...

“Crazy Rich Asians,” directed by Jon Chu, 2018 Why would an actual leftist review such a sappy Cinderella story populated by millionaires a...

“Red Harvest,” by Dashiell Hammett, 1929 The ‘hard-boiled’ detective genre is a staple of U.S. culture.   It is beyond me why, but I’ll ...

“Richistan – A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich,” by Robert Frank, 2007 This 2007 book is a grand ...