The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People – George Monbiot
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the story of what it has taken away. It markets the “traditional” and “unchanging” and, in doing so, changes it. As the old joke…
On LGBTQ issues, my fellow Muslims should balance faith with solidarity
As the Muslim American community grows in size and political activity, we can expect to see members of that community fall along a wide spectrum of political views.
The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm - Farm to Taber | Acast
Listen to The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm from Farm to Taber. Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photographs, Yale University Photogrammar Project. Available at https://photogrammar.org/photo/fsa1997021314/PPTranscriptFull bibliographyMain sources in this episode:SC food imports in 1917: Kirkendall, Richard S. 1988. Henry A. Wallace’s Turn Toward the New Deal, 1921-1924. The Annals of Iowa 49(3):221-239. Accessed 3 Mar 2022. Available at https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/10699/galley/119275/view/The Rise and Fall of Pellagra. 2018. Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, Werner Troesken. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 23730. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w23730Shu-Ching Lee. 1947. The Theory of the Agricultural Ladder. Agricultural History 21(1):53-61.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739772?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsPossession and Power: The Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 1800-1920. Adam Jacob Wolkoff. Dissertation, Rutgers, 2015.
I They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling towers and clean Bauhaus lines, and apple-ring acacias, and teal blue shuttle buses, and stock exchanges, and theme parks, and for some it was the best time ever and for others it was just fine. ‘Three decades ago, the site of…
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It | Techdirt
So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…
BFM: The Business Station - Podcast Morning Brief: Hate Speech And Extreme Violence Has No Place In Malaysia
The police have warned Malaysian social media users against uploading content that would threaten public safety and order, after it came to public attention that there were Tik Tok clips bringing up the May 13 racial riots in relation to GE15. Munira Mustaffa, Executive Director of the Chasseur Group tells us the reason for the rise of such damaging rhetoric and if there are organised forces behind it.
The New Humanitarian | How India’s caste system keeps Dalits from accessing disaster relief
Historically disenfranchised, they are denied aid and equal protection.
Historically marginalised, many of the 280 million Dalits that form 20% of India’s population today still live on the fringes of society. About a third of the population remains impoverished, according to the UN, and they often continue to be shunned by so-called oppressor castes who hold power at both the village and federal levels
May 13, never again: The 1969 riots that changed Malaysia | Malaysiakini
A dynamic web presentation of the event that presents both the original reporting at the time but also an event timeline with geographical cues that gives a bird's eye view on how it happened.
“Us,” “Them,” and the Problem with “Balkanization” | global-e journal
Even as globalization accelerates trans-global and supra-territorial connections, matrices of prejudice and stereotypes about 'the other' from past centuries remain, in old and new forms. This fact is borne out daily in crisis regions where ethnicity, migration, and the history of colonial and imperial adventure have left their legacies, including the Balkans. Various contemporary processes stimulate the appearance of new figures and stereotypes for ‘others’ on local, national, regional, international, and global levels.
