Episode 561: The New South (TrueAnon Podcast)We take a look at the new landscape of Central and South America, US interference in recent elections, the CECOT International, and Pentecostal-Zionist Brazilian Militias.
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-561-new-163340282Review: Elem Klimov’s ‘Come and See’The 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union is, without a doubt, one of the most harrowing events in history. To attempt to artistically represent these cruel years is a daunting task. Nevertheless, Come and See, a stunning film from 1985 directed by Elem Klimov, succeeds in doing the job. The film follows the story of a young boy named Flyora, who joined the Soviet Resistance against the Nazi war machine as a partisan. While the film is often portrayed as ‘anti-war’, this is a somewhat shallow understanding of it.
https://communist.red/review-elem-klimovs-come-and-see/I Am Not to Blame for Unemployment Hell, and Neither Are YouLast fall, I was laid off from a staff position in higher education along with the rest of my team due to budget cuts. Seven months and one hundred applications later, I still do not have a job, and my unemployment benefits have expired. It’s a distressing situation. It’s also not exceptional. The number of workers who have been unemployed for twenty-seven weeks or longer, a category known as “long-term unemployment,” has grown to nearly two million and now constitutes 25 percent of the total unemployed population. Many workers are giving up on finding a job altogether. In June, the unemployment rate actually went down, but only because seven hundred thousand unemployed workers stopped searching and are no longer included in the official count. The crisis has been worse for black workers, who are disproportionately represented among the unemployed. Despite this trend, neither Congress nor the White House have discussed expanding unemployment benefits, as was done during the 2008–2009 financial crisis and the pandemic. Instead of addressing the problem, Donald Trump tried to hide it by attacking the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cutting the federal agency’s funding and firing its comm
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