From Sunday’s and Monday’s Files 

Subverting Governance For Corporate Profit – http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/19766/corporate-rights-preemption-fracking-gmos-factory-farms-thomas-linzey

Musk & Resurrection

Universal Resurrection

A Spielberg Biography Review-Essay – https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/raiding-lost-ark-molly-haskell-steven-spielbergs-jewish-life/

Demonetization Deconstructed – http://www.globalresearch.ca/indias-war-on-cash-the-demonetization-blitzkrieg-the-ice-nine-solution/5561601

http://www.globalresearch.ca/india-from-the-destabilization-of-agriculture-to-demonetization-made-in-america/5566615

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cash-is-no-longer-king-currency-wars-the-phasing-out-of-physical-money-has-begun/5562582

Despite Notion’s Nonsense, Ignoring ‘Race’ Perilous – https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/race-may-be-pseudo-science-but-economists-ignore-it-at-their-peril?curator=MediaREDEF

‘Disrupting’ Health Insurance – https://backchannel.com/oscar-is-disrupting-health-care-in-a-hurricane-65480bfed940?curator=MediaREDEF#.ptxho9pp5

Examining Unreal

ClandesTime 096 – Unreal

Chernobyl’s ‘Containment’ – http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170101-a-new-tomb-for-the-most-dangerous-disaster-site-in-the-world

Hillbilly Elegy’s Moral Lesson – http://forward.com/opinion/359208/the-lessons-of-hillbilly-elegy-for-social-conservatives-in-age-of-trump/

Jeff Sessions, Dissected – http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/jeff-sessions-attorney-general.html

‘Russian Hacks’ Equal ISP’s, Etc. – https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/the-u-s-government-thinks-thousands-of-russian-hackers-are-reading-my-blog-they-arent/

Documentary Activism Delineated – http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_ava_duvernay_activism_beyond_filmmaking_career_20170107

War’s Uncontrollable Realities

Uncontrollable War: Why We Can’t Accurately Predict Or Adequately Prepare For Violent Conflict

KGB ‘Recruiting’ Tactics

Inside The KGB Playbook To Recruit Americans

Markets, Manipulation, Mind Control – http://www.blacklistednews.com/War_on_thinking_-_CIA_controls_the_markets%2C_too/56191/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Plutocrats’ Using Evictions to Plunder – http://www.blacklistednews.com/Evictions_by_Wall-Street_Mega-Landlords_Soar%2C_Financialization_of_Rents_Cause_%E2%80%9CHousing_Instability%E2%80%9D%3A_Atlanta_Fed_/56192/0/38/38/Y/M.html

NAACP Versus Sessions – http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/alabama_naacp_not_backing_down_jeff_sessions_office_lashes_out_20170107

A Thinker’s Take: Transience & Self

Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on Selfhood, the Crucible of Identity, and What Makes Life’s Transience Bearable

 

CIA’s Weaponization of Modern Art – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

The Poverty of Economics – https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mathematical-economics-training-too-narrow-by-robert-skidelsky-2016-12

General Marshall on Leadership

George Marshall’s 1920 Letter on True Leadership

Panther Transformations – http://www.nuradeen.com/archives/Reflections/Transformations1.htm

Schopenhauer’s Decrying Clickbait

Schopenhauer on the Dangers of Clickbait

Gringo Economic Nationalism Guarantees War – https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-isolationism-undermines-peace-worldwide-by-nouriel-roubini-2017-01

A Panther Memoir – http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2017/01/making-of-black-panther.html

‘Liberal’ Drives to Dominance & War

“Liberal” European Elites for Authoritarianism and Cold War

Kentucky Astroturf Union Busting – http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39016-koch-astroturf-army-cheers-union-busting-in-kentucky

Solidarity Rejects ‘Saviors’ – http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39013-how-savior-mentality-stands-in-the-way-of-solidarity-organizing-an-interview-with-jordan-flaherty

Wealth’s Ways & Means

How Do Americans Get Rich? (And Stay Rich?)

Diminishing Rent Extraction

The Real “Takers” in America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich

Fears of a Disintegrating Europe

Is Europe Disintegrating?

Dismantling Nonsensical Cold-War Nostalgia – http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176228/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_how_we_got_here/#more

SEP ‘Critical Theory’ Article – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

Frankfurt School/Critical Theory Piece, IEP

Frankfurt School and Critical Theory

Revolution, Dialectic, Human Liberation – https://www.marxist.com/revolutionary-dialectic-liberation-humanity261007.htm

SEP–Feminism, Class, Labor – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-class/

Engels & Women’s Oppression – http://www.isreview.org/issues/02/engles_family.shtml

Kellner on Foucault – https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/pomo/ch2.html

SEP Colonialism Essay – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/

This Contains a Potential Ready-Made Database For Us

Grassroots Labor History & Reviews – https://charlierclaywellwriter.com/category/labor-history/

Staughton Lynd on ‘Alternative Unionism’ – https://libcom.org/library/what-%E2%80%9Calternative-unionism%E2%80%9D-staughton-lynd

Erik Loomis Labor & Class Portal – http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/erik-loomis/page/3

WWI’s Capital Breakdown – https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/09/le5-all.html

Hannah Arendt on SEP – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/

21st Century Capital’s ‘Competitive’ Monopolies

Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism

Jean Baudrillard in SEP – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/

Money, Labor, Capital in Grundrisse – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch08.htm

Kellner on Mediated ‘Spectacular’ Triumph – https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/medculturespectacle.html