FROM FRIDAY’S & SATURDAY’S FILES

Syria & Potential Conflagration

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/09/syria-potential-fuse-for-greater-conflagration/

Writing History for Mass Audiences

http://tah.oah.org/august-2016/writing-history-for-a-popular-audience-a-round-table-discussion/

Worldly Dualities

http://www.booksandideas.net/Arthur-C-Danto-or-the-Duality-of-Worlds.html

Honey Trap Origins

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-brilliant-m16-spy-who-perfected-the-art-of-the-honey-trap

Abundant Inequality in School Funding Formulas

https://psmag.com/another-state-another-inequitable-school-funding-formula-569db327bda#.bm2dgjbgm

Identity Politics & Their Totalitarian Yield

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/09/identity-politics-totalitarianism.html

Spain’s Class Savagery

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/09/spai-s09.html

War With Russia a Single ‘Incident’ Away

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/09/russ-s09.html

Education Mythology

https://theconversation.com/why-urban-myths-about-education-are-so-persistent-and-how-to-tackle-them-60680

A ‘Big War’ on the Horizon, Unintentionally or Intentionally

http://portside.org/2016-09-09/sleepwalking-big-war-west-fearful-it-loses-military-advantage

G-20 Chairman’s Speech

http://valdaiclub.com/about/speech/g20-political-psychotherapy/

U.S. Election Prospects For Russia

http://valdaiclub.com/news/the-us-elections-and-the-cold-war-2-0-implications-and-prospects-for-russia/

A Coney Island Loony-Bin

http://hyperallergic.com/314819/a-fictive-psychoanalytic-society-set-in-1930s-coney-island/

Edinburgh’s Dramatization of Systemic Corruption

http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2016/09/edinburgh-fringe-plays-on-the-systems-corruption/

A Struggling Essay Contest

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/a-section/owner-wants-to-give-away-weekly-paper-through-an-essay-contest/

Avicenna’s ‘Mind-Body’ Insights

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-can-avicenna-teach-us-about-the-mind-body-problem

Embracing a Golden Age Potential

https://aeon.co/essays/the-time-is-right-to-reclaim-the-utopian-ideas-of-keynes

9/11’s Opportunistic Militarism

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_9_11_retrospective_washingtons_15-year_air_war_20160908

Black Teachers Under Attack

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/changes_in_american_education_are_forcing_huge_20160908
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/black-teachers-public-schools-education-system-philadelphia

Combating Expert Bullshit

https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/09/we-are-tired-of-these-experts/

A Japanese Approach to Subverting Neoliberalism

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/japan-isnt-playing-neoliberalisms-word-games.html

New Life on Medium

http://www.poynter.org/2016/facing-shutdowns-and-stagnating-readership-independent-publications-are-finding-new-life-on-medium/429164/

North Korea’s Nukes: What Now?

http://thebulletin.org/north-koreas-nuclear-weapons-what-now

A Plethora of Nuclear Inquiries

http://thebulletin.org/press-release/practical-nuclear-questions-presidential-candidates-and-psychology-doom9865

Estimating Existential Catastrophe

http://thebulletin.org/how-likely-existential-catastrophe9866

The Invention of Conspiracy Theory

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-cia-invented-and-promoted-conspiracy-theories-discredit-controversial-views

Some Scientific Corporate Shills

http://www.alternet.org/investigations/13-academics-who-have-become-shills-corporate-giants-food-agrochemical-and-fossil

Big Data’s Cult Culture

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/08/the-case-against-big-data-it-is-like-youre-being-put-into-a-cult-but-you-dont-actually-believe-in-it/

Ibogaine, Rehab, & Privilege

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/09/fear-and-loathing-in-the-five-star-rehab-inside-the-controversy-around-ibogaine-the-psychedelic-drug-that-just-may-cure-addiction/

Reclaiming the Dead

http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/deadrec

A 9/11 Symposium

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/09/official-911-narrative-will-be-challenged-at-manhattan-symposium/

Various 9/11 Links

http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=83fcad45e2&e=2f8b22d4cf

Hillbilly Elegy Review Essay

https://www.laprogressive.com/hillbilly-elegy/

A Ronnie Gilbert & Weavers Retrospective

http://hollywoodprogressive.com/ronnie-gilbert/

Affordable Urban Europe

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/09/which-european-cities-have-the-most-affordable-housing/499292/

U.S. & Its Continuing War Operations After 9/11

http://www.mintpressnews.com/15-years-later-obama-extends-911-national-emergency-justify-perpetual-war-terror/220203/

Whistleblowers’ Contributions, Whatever the Purposeful Distractions

http://www.mintpressnews.com/lets-get-back-data-relentless-attacks-assange-distract-content-wikileaks-releases/220201/

The Reality of Decline & Deprivation

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/percentage-working-age-men-not-job-similar-great-depression.html

Yemeni Litigation, Joined by Drone Operators

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/us-ex-drone-operators-join-yemeni-drone-victim-court-challenge.html

A Deconstruction of Gary Johnson’s Candidacy

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/gary-johnson-a-pro-freedom-president-libertarian-us-election/18735

Supporting the Kurds

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-the-kurds-deserve-our-support/18746

Homelessness Now, From Eastern Washington

https://www.laprogressive.com/growing-number-of-houseless/

Starving the Beast Review

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/09/the-rights-war-on-college-starving-the-beast-exposes-the-fight-to-destroy-americas-great-public-universities/

A Pair of Retro 9/11 Assessments

http://bostonreview.net/forum/elaine-scarry-citizenship-emergency

http://bostonreview.net/noam-chomsky-responsibility-of-intellectuals-redux

A 9/11 Fifteenth Anniversary Study Guide

http://bostonreview.net/us/ingrid-norton-mourning-9-11-fifteen-years-later

Tolstoy’s On the Significance of Science & Art

https://ia600303.us.archive.org/13/items/onthesignificanc03631gut/sgnsa10.txt

The Domestic Psychology of Terror

http://fusion.net/story/345173/15th-anniversary-post-9-11-anxiety-childhood/

A Legislative Cruel Hoax Regarding Litigation Against Saudi Arabia

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/sue-saudi-bill-passes-house/

A Duo About Southern Situations in Labor & Society

https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/09/institute-index-partisan-battle-over-voting-rights-ex-felons-virginia

http://laborsouth.blogspot.com/2016/09/uaw-tilling-what-sidney-hillman-called.html

150 Million Indians & History’s Largest Strike

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19441/150_million_workers_in_india_just_staged_the_largest_strike_in_history_to_r

A Texas Oil Billionaire’s Stake in the Dakota Dust-Up

https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/09/meet-texas-billionaire-and-gop-donor-behind-north-dakota-pipeline-controversy

Freedom Fighters on the Silver Screen

https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/09/black-freedom-fighters-silver-screen

Analyzing New Age Thinking

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/09/08/happened-new-age-sorting-truth-nonsense/

Pharmaceutical Death Sentences

http://wakingtimesmedia.com/prescription-drugs-killing-us-meet-one-doctor-many-just-published-paper/

A ‘Liberal’ View on the Dakota’s Pipeline Case

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/dapl-dakota-sitting-rock-sioux/499178/

A Radical, Conceptually Confused 9/11 Screed

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/09/09/911-art-blaming-others-isnt-15-years-psyop-enough/

Explicating Buyback Predation

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/68873

Health ‘Care’ Tyranny

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/68875

Progressive Turncoats Who Embrace Empire

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/68883

A 9/10 9/11 Quartet

https://memoryholeblog.com/2016/09/10/911-an-online-compendium-of-research-and-analysis/

http://www.aei.org/publication/15th-anniversary-911-remember-al-qaeda/

https://theconversation.com/the-catastrophic-legacy-of-9-11-will-define-the-us-for-years-to-come-64067

https://theconversation.com/why-the-9-11-novel-has-been-such-a-contested-and-troubled-genre-64455

Alluring Propaganda

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45437.htm

Deconstructing Southern Working Class Reactionaries & Fascists

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19431/why-conservatives-vote-the-way-they-do

Empire’s Deranged Corruption

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45436.htm

Dark Webs, Cyberwar, & Such As That

http://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/gallery-the-top-dark-web-search-engines/

The Senate’s CIA Torture Investigation: An Update

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/exposed_inside_the_senates_effort_to_reveal_the_cias_torture_20160909

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/cia-insider-daniel-jones-senate-torture-investigation

More From Edinburgh’s Fringe, on People Whom the System Crushes

http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2016/09/edinburgh-fringe-the-people-the-system-chews-up/

A Timelined Analysis of American Living Standards

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005364-robert-gordons-notable-history-economics-and-living-standards

A Carceral Coupling: Origins of Prisoners on Strike

https://roarmag.org/essays/us-september-9-prison-strike/

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-origins-carceral-state-elizabeth-hinton

Cancelling a BLM Benefit Because of BDS

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/09/broadway-because-movements/

A Graphic Novel That Contextualizes Kashmir

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/kashmir-stories-munnu-malik-sajad-graphic-novel

An Eviction Review Essay

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-violence-of-eviction-housing-market-foreclosure-gentrification-finance-capital

A Silicon Life

https://thebolditalic.com/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-valley-933091235095#.44yy7tbqi

Mental Technocrats on the Loose

http://www.judicialwatch.org/the-blog/records-show-obama-hired-behavioral-experts-expand-use-govt-programs/

Contemporary Copyright’s Hollywood Design

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160909/00241435470/copyright-office-acts-as-hollywoods-lobbying-arm-because-thats-basically-how-been-designed.shtml

The Hocus Pocus of Opportunistic Objectivity
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160909/01072835472/if-youre-journalist-who-thinks-that-pointing-out-lies-shows-bias-youre-not-journalist.shtml

DOJ’s FOIA Bullshit
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160907/08193735457/doj-proudly-trumpets-completely-bs-91-foia-response-rate.shtml

A Mandatory Content Curation Primer & Guide
https://blog.bufferapp.com/content-curation

Modi’s Bogus Bullshit Parade
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/media-clampdown-modi-regime-and-broadcast-journalists/

A 9/11 Coverup Overview
ttp://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/the-great-911-cover-up/
https://off-guardian.org/2016/09/07/the-great-911-coverup/

Educating to a Common Purpose for the Commons
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/school-of-commoning/

U.S. Propagation of ‘Democracy’ Propaganda
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/10/the-united-states-proud-sponsor-of-democracy-propaganda/

Analyzing Syria Bullshit
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/09/more-wmd-fraud-sexed-up-un-chemical-weapons-report-on-syria-contrived-to-trigger-more-sanctions-intervention/

Examining Urban Shield & Protest Against It

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/protest-targets-urban-shield-police-military-expo.html

Letting Warlords Off Lightly

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/protest-targets-urban-shield-police-military-expo.html

Covering Up the Other 9/11, Especially the CIA’s Role
http://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-continues-cover-involvement-chiles-911-coup/220254/

Protesting Too Much About Unemployment

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-the-truth-the-unemployment-rate-hoax

Dilma’s Dire Straits Update

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/A-Flimflam-Impeachment-The-Overthrow-of-Dilma-Rousseff-20160909-0019.html
The History That Is Lacking in a History Professor’s Grad Student Union Opposition
http://coreyrobin.com/2016/09/10/what-happens-when-a-history-professor-at-yale-opposes-a-grad-union-but-doesnt-know-her-history/

Israel’s Ongoing State of War & Terror

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37511-a-continuous-war-mentality-richard-falk-on-israel-s-human-rights-abuses

Paul Craig Roberts’ Latest 9/11 Update

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/09/10/911-15-years-of-a-transparent-lie-paul-craig-roberts/

Organizing Renters: Tactics of Reform, Strategies of Resistance

http://chieforganizer.org/2016/09/09/renters-rising/

http://chieforganizer.org/2016/09/10/waking-up-the-sleeping-giant-and-building-a-renters-voting-block/

Capital’s Ubiquitous Contradictions

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/and-the-ship-goes-down/

Geopolitics of Hegemony & Doom

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/demonize-and-distract-sanitizing-syria-for-the-masses/

Attacking Whistleblowers & Ignoring Their Findings

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/libeling-leakers-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-the-russian-connection/

Risks of ‘Liberalism’ & Identity Fetishes

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/self-criticism-and-a-further-danger-of-identity-politics/

Monopoly Media’s Ignoring of the Prison Strike

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prison-revolt-refuse-slaves/

Typical Hypocrisy of Drug Makers: Fight Marijuana Legalization

 http://thefreethoughtproject.com/deadly-drug-fentanyl-cannabis/