From Wednesday’s Files

Military Police – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Despite-Drug-War-Bloodshed-Mexico-on-Verge-of-Formalizing-Militarys-Role-as-Police-20170426-0017.html

Venezuela Coup – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Who-Is-Behind-the-State-Departments-Coup-Plot-in-Venezuela-20170427-0010.html

Vegetable Protest – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Argentina-Farmers-Stage-Vegetable-Giveaway-to-Protest-Low-Prices-20170427-0015.html

Left and Free Speech – http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/27/on-liberals-the-left-and-free-speech-something-has-changed-and-its-not-what-you-think-it-is/

Stopgap Funding – http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/330842-mcconnell-senate-will-pass-stopgap-funding-bill

Mass Incarcerations – https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/james-forman-mass-incarceration/524328/

Transformative Podcasts – https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-18296-isoj-2017-podcasts-can-positively-transform-way-audience-interacts-media

Comments – https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/27/stop-commenting-already/

EPA Lobbying – http://www.ecowatch.com/koch-pruitt-epa-lobbying-2379773655.html

Art – http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/11/robert-rauschenberg-confidence-man-american-art/

Midwest Populism – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/democratic-party-2018-races-midwest-populism-trump

Happiness – https://aeon.co/classics/massimo-pigliucci-on-senecas-stoic-philosophy-of-happiness

Turk’s Attacks on U.S.-Backed Kurds –  http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/27/turk-a27.html

Thermonuclear Ecocide – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/27/mills-a27.html

Insurgencies – https://imperialglobalexeter.com/2017/04/27/cfp-understanding-insurgencies-1920-2000/

Memory and Spain – https://theconversation.com/80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory-76238

Critiquing Identity Politics – http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/a-marxist-critiques-identity-politics/

Israeli Isis Link – http://www.defenddemocracy.press/israeli-collaboration-with-isis/

France – http://www.defenddemocracy.press/when-there-was-a-sovereign-state-called-france-dominqie-de-villepin-addressing-un/

No Thought – http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/04/26/reuters-poll-reveals-americans-can-no-longer-think/

Booker Prize Shortlist – https://electricliterature.com/a-closer-look-at-the-man-booker-international-prize-shortlist-93eb3a7a419c

Mediterranean Conference – http://www.european-left.org/positions/news-archive/declaration-third-mediterranean-conference-left