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Israel’s tactic is tried and tested. Before or after it has attacked, maimed or killed anyone it wants to ‘take out’, it calls them Hamas. As these lines are written, Israel is deploying the same smear campaign against the Global Sumud Flotilla, the magnificent people – including doctors, lawyers, journalists, students, workers and parliamentarians – who are sailing toward the blood-soaked Gaza coast to break Israel’s siege of a devastated land on which its genocide of two million Palestinians is proceeding at a mechanical, ruthless, calculated pace. Novara

Cassidy’s purpose in Capitalism and Its Critics is less to endorse any particular critique of capitalism and more to legitimize the very enterprise of criticism in the eyes of those recalcitrants who still feel squeamish about it—those who think there is no alternative. By the end of this 570-page book, Cassidy makes a persuasive case that capitalism cannot survive without policymakers and business leaders taking even quite radical objections seriously, responding to them with another turn of the wheel of capitalism’s perpetual revolution. Like a great white shark, capitalism dies if it stops moving—and the ceaseless antagonism of its critics helps ensure that it never does. The Nation

Bernie Sanders: Let’s take a deep breath and, for one moment, forget about Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, the UN, Charlie Kirk, Gaza, a government shutdown and the other crises that we face. Let’s talk instead about the reality which the corporately-controlled media and the corporately-controlled political system don’t talk about very much. The Guardian