Category: Writer
PART’s Perspective: When Will We Ever Learn?
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Many people were stunned by the outcome of the presidential election, and the decisive, if close, victory of Donald Trump. How, they ask, could so many millions of people …
Mumia Abu Jamal Embraces LGBTQ Liberation
https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-embraces-lgbtq-liberation-on-99-5-fm-wbai/ excerpts from an interview by Out-FM (This interview with Mumia by Bob Lederer and the associated documentary also ran in full on KPFK’s Somethings Happening program, as well as in a later one-hour edited version. The full transcript with …
Autonomous Warrior: US, UK, Australia Hold Robot Navy War Games
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (ARA-LA/PART) I have paid close attention to the TV series NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) ever since NCIS Los Angeles ran an episode fictionalizing Occupy LA’s Occupy the Ports action that I was involved …
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PART’s Perspective: Moratorium Against Genocide & Apartheid
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) During the Vietnam War era, the peace, antiwar and internationalist solidarity movements in the US came with a wide diversity of tactics and actions that persisted, grew and intensified …
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Project 2024, Agenda 47, and Conflicts Within the Right
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles It would be wrong to assume that Donald J. Trump’s distancing himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-produced “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”, is only an electoral ploy. It is true that …
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The Math of Repression and Exploitation
The Mathematics of Repression and Exploitation by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action/People Against Racist Terror The New York Times a few years ago ran an interesting series about mathematics — “Me, Myself and Math” — how numbers appear in and affect …
A-I squared – Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism
Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Most of the fears expressed about A-I have focused on a couple of issues. There are fears of a fourth industrial revolution …
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Which Way Forward for Pacifica Radio?
by Michael Novick The Pacifica Foundation, license holder for five stations in many of the largest metropolitan areas in the US — WBAI in NY, WPFW in DC, KPFT in Houston, KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles …
End the Genocide Against Palestine! End the Settler-Colonial Occupation!
PART’s Perspective End the Genocide Against Palestine! End the Settler-Colonial Occupation! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) War crimes and crimes against humanity are being carried out daily by Israel, not only in Gaza, but …
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A.I.’s Dirty Secret: Digital Sweat-shops
Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI– “Artificial …
Vol. 35 #2 April-June 2023
The wonderful cover graphic on this issue, and the inside illustration, Capitalism Breaks my Heart, authorized for our use by the artist, Susan Simensky-Bietila, are from the latest World War 3 Illustrated, available from AK Press here: https://www.akpress.org/frontlines-of-repair.html
Blood on Their Hands:
War in Ukraine: US, NATO Share the Blame with Putin by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Putin’s valid criticism of a US “Empire of Lies” and of NATO war-making and warmongering do not add up to a justification of the …
On the Incapacity of Capitalism to Confront the Crises it Creates
PART’s Perspective: On the Incapacity of Capitalism to Confront the Crises it Creates by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Anyone who imagined that the threat of naked fascism in the US would depart, disappear or …
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PART’s Perspective: All Power to the Imagination!
PARTs Perspective All Power to the Imagination by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The so-called left in the US continues to be in the grip of defeatism and acceptance of the parameters and limits of …
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
I delayed writing this reflection until after midnight on Thursday Nov. 5, so essentially early Friday, Nov. 6. As I write, the election of a president has still not as yet been accomplished, even though a clear and insurmountable majority …
People Get Ready
PART’s Perspective: People Get Ready: The Best Defense is a Good Offense by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump’s hospitalization with COVID-19 increases the range of eventualities in the upcoming national election, adding death and …
Book Review: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer: New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 512 pp. reviewed by Roxanne-Dunbar-Ortiz, written for Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies. Editor, James Riding …