The Next Revolution Will Be Velvet: CEOs vs. Workers

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. 

~ Franz Kafka

War Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore The American Conservative

Special Operations Forces Continue to Expand Across the World—Without Congressional Oversight The Nation

CEOs vs. Workers Jacobin

Huge Increase in Large Work Stoppages Seen in 2018 Medium

Sisters in Arms NYRB

How is this legal: CEOs v Workers

Lula’s party weighs Brazil northeast vote in search for stand-in: sources Reuters

Former Brazilian President’s Kafkaesque Imprisonment: Defense Lawyer Valeska Martins Speaks Out TruthDig

Getting by in Venezuela: Chronicles of Survival and Hope Venezuelanalysis

Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border: First in a Series Lawfare

Thai boys recount cave rescue: Voices in dark, then ‘hello’ Associated Press

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• Republican lawmaker pitches carbon tax in defiance of party stance  (24 Jul 2018)
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• Paradise Papers Tie Cambodian Army Chief's Wife to Tropical Tax Haven
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