Anyone know of an online archive including issues of the early 20th century Oklahoma Pioneer newspaper, where I don't have to hand over money? There's three issues where the internal Socialist Party fights about segregation (broadly Right faction in favour, Left faction against) became very public.

On seemingly invisible and undetectable phenomena somehow overlooked despite involving entrenched, very long-standing practices of sexual and other forms of abuse, from people acting at least nominally in the name of law-enforcement, an entire hierarchy of protected long-term abusers: “Spycops.”

From 1869, ‘Proposal for the Establishment of Military Industrial Settlements on the Frontiers of the British Possesions (sic) in New Zealand’, the plan for a directly ‘military-industrial’ colonial expansion, which would reduce the odds that the colony would ask for military help from the British.

Ulysses may not be the greatest work of twentieth century literature, but it's definitely one of my favourites. When Bloom is putting the kettle on, only one of the resulting commentaries asks: "What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?"

Advertisement placed in the 27 July 1968 edition of the Los Angeles Free Press.

The limits of critique possible for a version of Human Rights Watch that cannot truly contest the Zionist settler-colonial state. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vad...

This was correspondence reproduced in the 1860 Report of the select committee of the Senate 'appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Harper's Ferry'.

Also from the 17 May 1941 edition of the Indian paper, Amrita Bazar Patrika: do you think this account from Reuter of industrial action in Malaya was ENTIRELY reliable?

Jan Masaryk, son of philosopher and Czechoslovakian President Tomáš Masaryk and a diplomat and then Foreign Minister who tried to counter the pro-fascist Daily Mail, on Rudolf Hess and efforts to distinguish good and bad Nazis. From the 17 May 1941 edition of the Indian paper, Amrita Bazar Patrika.

People curious why I post what I post at this moment: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjB...

Article, ‘Brutal Treatment of Conscientious Objectors’, from the December 1940 edition of The Catholic Worker.

To me it feels like William O. Brown was an ideological precursor to contemporary reactionary myths about 'white genocide' in Africa. As evidence, I'd cite eg. his October 1960 African Studies Bulletin text, 'The Outlook for the White Man in Africa, Particularly as Settler'. doi.org/10.2307/523348

Excerpt from ‘Asides and Soliloquies’, a 12 March 1938 mock-editorial, written by the editors and appearing in the April-June 1938 issue of The Sewanee Review. "When he wants to set up Nazi camps to foster American patriotism... raising the right arm, fists unclinched... he is cruelly suspected..."

‘Nazi Defendants Will View Films of Camp Horrors’, an AP report on the ongoing Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in this case including being shown films of the ‘Nazi horror camps’, from the 27 November 1945 edition of the Radford News Journal, an East Radford, Virginia paper.

Article, ‘More Priests Go To Nazi Prisons’, from the 15 July 1937 edition of The Catholic Telegraph, a US Catholic newspaper. Including mention of the arrest of "Pastor Martin Niemoeller of Protestant Confessional Church", charged with "inciting to disobedience in State institutions".

Umberto Eco, Philosophers, Mythologists and Linguists progressivegeographies.com/2026/02/15/u...

Representative from Vermont Becca Balint. youtu.be/zU5bCvy0jMo?...

Congresswoman Becca Balint.

Acoustical device created by the Dutch army in the 1930s to help detect aircraft before radar. From Meredith C. Ward's 2019 University of California Press book, Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture (Volume 1).

W. E. B. Du Bois reading the Melbourne Herald and writing on the situation in occupied Indonesia and soon-to-be occupied Indonesia, in his ‘A Chronicle of Race Relations’ in the 4th Quarter of 1943 issue of Phylon. (Excerpt too short to fairly represent his argument.) doi.org/10.2307/271508

The long-practised constitutive ambiguity of US rhetoric about Imperialism and colonialism... Excerpt from Boyd Carpenter's 'The United States as a Power on the Pacific Coast', in the July 1927 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. doi.org/10.1177/0002...

It was just over two years after the two-day white supremacist massacre in Tulsa that the 16 August 1923 edition of newspaper The Black Dispatch ran this editorial.

What does it mean when political, economic and military elites wish a world organised around colonialism? Well, inventing, imposing and maintaining racisms, certainly. Excerpt from George Young, 'Portugal as a Colonial Power' from the 29 March 1918 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts.

somebody kindly put my thing on libcom, that's nice! libcom.org/article/ice-...

In a rational society every single one would be subject to investigations on the assumption of involvement in the crime of genocide and the host of crimes involved in making that genocide happen.

Now if only the situation in Australia could be contested as well. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

260+ Australian passport-holders served in the Israel Defence Forces as of March 2025. www.declassifieduk.org/over-2000-br...

The article itself is paywalled so unless you're a subscriber, the attachments will have to, and absolutely should, do

In the January 1966 issue of The African Communist - which is to say, after Boumedienne had overthrown Ben Balla in Algeria - Henri Alleg wrote about recent ‘Political Detainees in Algeria’, and the regime's threat to their well-being and lives. Amongst those arrested was Mohammed Harbi.

I'm not particularly a propagandist for the British or even Australian Greens, but relative to what's coming out of the respective Labor/Labour Parties...

During the Depression, the actual, literal Great one almost a century ago, people were deploying the same cliches to invite people to think foreigners are the problem Article from the 20 March 1930 edition of The Catholic Transcript, a US Catholic newspaper.

It's at least borderline amazing just how much bad faith, manipulation and bigotry is being deployed by the NSW ALP in seeking to violently repress opposition to genocide. m.youtube.com/shorts/fqSCm...

Populations that have been nazified and are actively supporting a genocidal national/state project, like the Israeli Jews, CAN be de-nazified. But not by coddling them and pretending it's not true. A key step is that the project and the state must be defeated, definitively.

Anti-genocide protest tomorrow, 5pm, Flinders Street Station. Because every day is a good day to oppose Israeli settler-colonial violence and ethnic cleansing. www.greenleft.org.au/2026-02/even...

Click & read thread. Not just Ben's commentary but the texts he provides. THIS is the background to contemporary racist, misogynic WHITE Christian Nationalists, well analyzed in Katherine Stewart's MONEY, LIES & GOD (2025). Imagine the version of the Bible, they'll peddle!

Hey look what I found.

The ways in which a system of already substantially militarized and very much class-based and racializing policing is integrated into economies of mass incarceration and exploitation provides a good basis for reconstitution into properly fascist state violence. m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-...

A brief thread on the 'slave bible', a phrase sometimes used to describe the experience of Africans with European controlled Christianities, but also an actual phenomenon.

27 April 1941 broadcast by a Greek radio producer just before German forces took over the Athens radio station (ERT). "Soon, this station will not be Greek. It will be German. And it will tell lies." m.youtube.com/watch?v=xbiu...

Had sex with someone who sounded so much like Director Krennic that when I closed my eyes all I could imagine was him looking out a window at an almost completed Death Star.

'The Greatest Moral Question of the Century', an article on oddly familiar arguments, back then between Christian groups, about moves to substantially increase the size of the American military. From the March 1908 edition of The Advocate of Peace.

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

Excerpt on people suggesting the abolition of the police department, from the 'Report on native papers in the Madras presidency', a summary of and excerpts from newspapers in India compiled for and submitted to British colonial authorities on 2 August 1902.

George Bernard Shaw, casually sneering at the demand to abolish the police while opposing censorship of the theatre, in his 'The Censorship of the Stage in England', from the August 1899 issue of The North American Review.

"He's an expert on the subject because he thinks about them a lot because he hates them" is a vibe I'm regularly picking up in mainstream media platforming of anti-'woke' grifters and bigots.

"Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death" ...is like parody of everyone's carefully worded statements after getting expensive public relations advice because there's just so many of their emails in the Epstein files... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Semiotics of Brunswick.

Loyalty to the empire occupying where you live only gets you so far. Excerpt from ‘Selections from the Vernacular Newspapers Published in the Panjab, North-Western Provinces, Oudh, Central Provinces and Berar’ submitted on 31 August 1898, British colonial authorities monitoring Indian newspapers.

As part of managing the British Empire, colonial authorities had people monitoring newspapers throughout India and providing reports, summaries and excerpts on a regular basis.