Anthony Ballas
@tonyjballas
NFEE #4935 | PhD Duke Lit | @scalawagmag @monthly_review @NatCounterPunch @proteanmag & more | Internationalism | host of De Facto & co-host of Cold War Cinema
📣De Facto ep19 is LIVE!🚨 Gerald Horne: Zionism in crisis, Mamdani's win, Israel-Iran, Kenya, CNN, VOA, African Stream & more This ep. also features readings of Parnia Abbasi's "The Extinguished Star" performed in Farsi by @KamranBaradaran & English by @aliner 🔗 below 👇
Marcus Rediker just gave an excellent interview on his latest book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea with Gerald Horne for KPFK Los Angeles. It should air in the coming weeks—Stay Tuned!
I read @JeffSchuhrke’s brilliant book “Blur Collar Empire” and the utterly depraved spinelessness of labor leadership in this country, paired with its abject stupidity, absolutely has a history and context worth understanding.
U.S. labor unions who passed zero resolutions since Oct 7 and who’ve been shipping weapons and manufacturing for Israel YOU HAVE FAILED THE WORKING CLASS OF THE US More importantly you participated in a class war against innocent Palestinians the Blood is on your hands too‼️
Just finish writing a piece comparing Jairus Banaji & Silvia Federici’s work and why we need their complementary to develop an alternative unitary theory of capitalism centred on the wageless as key revolutionary subject. 🫶🏼❤️ 👇🏽bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/mode-of-produc…
The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations. bit.ly/4eTFigv
Reminder: Mark de Silva threatened to shoot another critic, harangued me in public with 40+ psychotic tweets about my body, and has harassed multiple critics to the point of seeking help for feeling physical endangered. Please don't ever interact with him, especially about me.
The only self-help advice I'm willing to accept. Actually, it's more like selfless-help in this instance.
A great way to improve your memory is to develop a hatred of capitalist civilization. Then you are motivated to remember every incriminating detail about the object of your hatred—and this is a lot of details
A great way to improve your memory is to develop a hatred of capitalist civilization. Then you are motivated to remember every incriminating detail about the object of your hatred—and this is a lot of details
If one court case can upend a democracy, then maybe it’s not a democracy?
One Trump court case will determine whether America will still have a democracy alternet.org/trump-harvard-…
From his mansion on Chain Bridge Road, the disgraced Tony Blinken blames antiwar protesters for the continuation of Israel’s war on Gaza Remember, it was Blinken who advanced the Israeli attack on UNRWA and ended its funding, setting the stage for famine
This book is a must read Gerald Horne is an amazing historian.
An appeal to folks on this platform…pls consider supporting grassroots mutual aid work regularly in Palestine, Congo and Sudan. I recommend @congofriends and @sameerproject and @sdnsolidarity but there are so many others too! $10 a month goes a long way. Bcm a monthly donor.
No thanks. I think I'll be good without Napoleon sauce of any kind
It’s not very long but essentially Hegel was living in a city conquered by Napoleon himself and when he saw him riding around on horseback through the conquered city he was like damn even I have to admit Napoleon has the sauce, it’s impossible not to admire him
Question: how common, (in)advisable is it to publish versions, either in whole or in part, of research that will eventually become dissertation chapters?
This is the sort of thing that throws Hegelians into a tizzy
Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Bonaparte Before the Sphinx" (1886)
May that straw headed crispity crunchy union busting racist right wing roid rage troglodytic turd burn in hell.