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-------- PORTSIDE SNAPSHOT - NOVEMBER 3, 2017 --------------------------------
-------- PROBLEMS OF THE SUPER-RICH ------------------------------------------
* Lawrence Wittner
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/ Huffington Post
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Based on recent economic developments, the super-rich don’t
have much to complain about. Yet, the super-rich face the problem of how long
people are going to tolerate a situation in which just eight men possess the
same wealth as half the world’s population.
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-------- ‘WE WRAPPED THE GUNS IN PLASTIC BAGS’ ---------------------------
* Piero Gleijeses
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/ London Review of Books
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My knowledge of Cuba’s revolutionary offensive in Latin America
is based on conversations with Cuban and Latin American protagonists,
including – after two decades’ knocking at the door – a five-hour
tête-à-tête with Castro in June 2015; as well as on documents from the US,
the USSR, the GDR, Canada and Britain.
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-------- THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET UNION: THE SECRET WAR THAT HELPED DESTROY
SOVIET SOCIALISM, 1981-1991 -----------------------------------------
* Paul Krehbiel
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/ Changemaker Publications
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the author
takes aim at the narrative that socialism crumbled in the Soviet Union under
its own weight, brought about by inherent weaknesses and contradictions of
socialism. Instead the case is made that a concerted and relentless 10-year
secret war by the Reagan Administration so weakened the Soviet economy and
Soviet psyche, along with missteps by the Soviet leadership, that socialism
was overthrown.
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-------- TIDBITS - NOVEMBER 2, 2017 - READER COMMENTS: U.S. TROOPS IN AFRICA;
INDONESIAN SLAUGHTER; PUERTO RICO RECOVERY; NAACP: AVOID FLYING
AMERICAN AIRLINES; STEVIE WONDER SANG HIS KNEES; JAPANESE INTERNMENT
- EXHIBIT, FILM, LESSONS FOR TODAY; AND MORE... ---------------------
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/ Portside
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Reader Comments: U.S. Armed Forces in Africa - Why?; 1965
Indonesia Slaughter; Puerto Rico Recovery, by Puerto Ricans; Whitefish Energy
Scandal; NAACP Urges Black Passengers to Avoid Flying American Airlines;
Stevie Wonder Sang the National Anthem on His Knees; Lost Mural by Secret
Communist Unearthed; Abortion Resources; Then They Came For Me - Chicago
exhibit until November 19; Join George Takei for premiere of "And Then They
Came for Us"; and more.....
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-------- BRITAIN FACES A BRAVE NEW WORLD AFTER BREXIT ------------------------
* Conn Hallinan
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/ Foreign Policy in Focus
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The UK's Conservative government is weak, the Labor Party is
rising, and EU members are out for blood.
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-------- AFL-CIO DELEGATES WALK OUT TO JOIN BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS ----
* Chauncey K. Robinson
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/ People's World
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Acting on the principle "All of us or none," delegates to the
AFL-CIO Convention joined Black Lives Matter protesters outside the meeting
hall.
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-------- THE VERY STRANGE STORY OF LUDWIG LORE: A CHAPTER FROM US SOCIALIST
HISTORY -------------------------------------------------------------
* Paul Buhle
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/ Portside
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Ludwig Lore's grandson recounts the life of the revolutionary
militant and German emigre who began a new life as a newspaper editor and
political commentator. A close associate of Leon Trotsky, Lore was a founder
of the American Communist Party until his expulsion when he went on to be be
a noted critic of both Stalin and Hitler.
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