From Friday’s and Saturday’s Files

American Dreams, Not Yet Extant, Further Failing – https://psmag.com/economic-mobility-is-fading-and-so-is-the-american-dream-d956ffcb7505#.h1d8fhxql

Rutherford’s Preacher Litigation – http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f6eb78f457b7b82887b643445&id=c54bbb5dc9&e=798f08cf09

A New York Review Personals Yarn

What Really Goes on With Those New York Review of Books Personals

Rick Perry & Privatized Waste – http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/department-energy-rick-perry-nuclear-waste

Instructions in Activist Narration

Let Grace Paley Inspire Your Creativity and Activism in 2017

Documenting Acid – http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/lsd-doc-sunshine-makers-what-we-learned-w463314

Capital’s Dependence on Slaves – http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Forgotten-Slaves/238604

Working Class Tax Issues & Impacts – http://portside.org/2017-01-27/trumponomics-taxes-and-american-worker

Ideological Intellectuals Who Monger for War – http://www.chronicle.com/article/Beware-of-Defense/238603

A ‘Progresssive’ Prediction of ‘Disappearing Democracy’

Disappearing Democracy

Revealing ‘Humanitarian Law’ History

A History of Humanity, Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights

Hume on Commerce – http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL24.html

Plea Bargained Activism

From Plea Bargain to Organizer: A Woman’s Story

Judith Butler’s Style, Deconstructed

 

David Hume in Defense of Judith Butler’s Writing Style

Trump’s ‘War on Science’ – http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/316407-trump-sparks-fears-of-war-on-science

A Vision of Atheist Paradox – https://aeon.co/essays/faith-rebounds-an-atheist-s-apology-for-christianity

Lucy Parsons & Losing the Past – http://flag.blackened.net/lpp/writings_by_lucy.html

Soviet Photomontages – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/05/chic-j05.html

Critiquing Anarchists

http://www.globalresearch.ca/anarchism-a-false-hope-nineteenth-century-cuban-independistas-explain/5561692

Counterrevolution & Revolutionary Dialectic

The Counter Revolution

State Secrets Prohibitions on Whistleblowing – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46025.htm

Imploring to Avoid Nuclear War

Letter on the need for urgent measures to avert a nuclear war

Toxic Economics – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46015.htm

DeVos & Looting Public Education

Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary, and the Looting of Public Education

Toni Morrison’s Laureate Lecture

Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech After Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade

Underemployment, Rampant, Under-reported, Intentional

Still falling short on hours and pay: Part-time work becoming new normal