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Portside Snapshot - October 26, 2017

The Worst of Bill O’Reilly’s On-air Denigration and Harassment of Lis Wiehl


Matt Gertz
Media Matters for America January: O’Reilly made a massive payout in response to reported “repeated harassment” and a “nonconsensual sexual relationship.” In January, then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly “struck a $32 million agreement” with Lis Wiehl, a longtime Fox legal analyst who had also served as his lawyer at one point, to forestall a lawsuit covering 15 years of sexual harassment allegations, inclu

Files Expose U.S. Roll in 1965 Indonesia Slaughter



Morning Star Declassified files have exposed just how much the US knew about and supported the massacre of millions of Indonesians in the 1965 anti-communist purges. The non-governmental National Security Archive research group published 39 documents on Tuesday, out of thousands of pages of newly declassified files from the US embassy in Jakarta.

Street Fighting Men


Luca Provenzano
Los Angeles Review of Books ON JUNE 21, 1973, members of the French Trotskyist group Ligue Communiste locked arms and marched down a Paris street, their leather motorcycle jackets barely concealing iron bars, metal projectiles, and Molotov cocktails. The Ligue and other leftist groups intended to put a stop to a rally by the extreme-right group Ordre Nouveau.
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