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After El Paso and Dayton

John Garvey

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1.  praise for the first responders; 2.  exhortations from local political leaders that “this will not affect who we are” and “we will recover”; 3.  a promise of thorough investigation; 4.  detailed speculation about what charges ...

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What a Waste!

John Garvey

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Today’s NY Times has a flattering profile of Shannon Kent, a 35-year old woman in the US Navy, who was killed last month in northern Syria: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/shannon-kent-military-spy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Apparently, much about her military career has been kept ...

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You won’t believe this, but…

John Garvey

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Exclusive: Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any ...

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Something New for Revolutionary Politics

John Garvey

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Kristin Ross, the author of two remarkable books–on the events of 1968 in France (May ’68 and Its Afterlives) and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Communal Luxury), has now written a provocative article on the “The ...

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War Against War, Part II: The World is My Country

John Garvey

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Long Live Peace–Richard Muller and the Revolutionary Shop Stewards There were already police informers at the dance-hall so they decamped to a pub in Sophienstrasse. There, a man with thick round glasses and a toothbrush moustache ...

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War Against War

John Garvey

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As I’ve written previously, 2018 is the hundredth anniversary of the end of the bloody First World War. It’s received a good deal of attention in the media. Not surprisingly, one aspect of the war has ...

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Oh What a Lovely War

John Garvey

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The “solemn” commemorations in Paris on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that finally put an end to the horrific bloodshed that had drowned Europe for just over the four years from 1914 ...

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End of a Philosophy

John Garvey

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(from the chapter with that title in Facing Reality: The New Society … Where to look for it, How to bring it closer, A statement for our time—by CLR James, Grace C. Lee & Pierre Chaulieu, ...

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Freedom Riders, 1963

The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens

John Garvey

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May Stevens was born in 1924 and, at the age of 94, lives in New Mexico.  She has been, for most of her life, an artist.  For the last seven decades, she’s been a political artist.  ...
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Remembering David McReynolds

John Garvey

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A friend who spent many years in the Catholic Worker-inspired anti-war movement sent me an email about the death of David McReynolds and a link to a collection of photos taken by McReynolds throughout his adult ...