Newsletter 2.20.18

Hi all,

Here's this week's newsletter. Enjoy! 

-- Florence, Nima, and Adam

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Fifteen years after Iraq war protests, peace is further away than ever - Emily Thornberry, The Guardian (2/15/18) 

Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow foreign secretary lays out how British imperialism over the past 20 years has wreaked havoc on the world. 

While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged Natasha Lennard, The Intercept (2/14/17)

Citation’s own Adam Johnson is quoted in this piece discussing a survey FAIR did on the asymmetry in coverage of liberal vs rightwing “free speech” suppression at The New York Times (spoiler alert: it’s bad!)  

“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa” - Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker (2/18/18)

Cobb explores how the new Marvel blockbuster 'Black Panther' engages with the legacy of colonialism, chattel slavery and the white supremacist concept of "Africa," that is, "a creation of a white world and the literary, academic, cinematic, and political mechanisms that it used to give mythology the credibility of truth.

We Can't Fight Rape Culture Without Fighting Mass Incarceration - Aviva Stahl, Vice (2/20/18)

“Incarcerated people are the population most at risk of sexual violence — but their concerns are largely missing from our current cultural moment of reckoning.”

Time Is a Feminist Issue  - Josephine Livingstone, New Republic (2/20/18) 

Is the generation divide in #MeToo an actual gap or just a media-creating canard? 

The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores - Joshua Clark Davis, The Atlantic (2/19/18)

Education, knowledge, and free expression have always been some of the greatest threats to oppression, repression, and domination. This essay examines how, at the height of the Black Power movement, the FBI's COINTELPRO focused on delegitimizing and destroying black independent booksellers.

A Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an “Act of War” On Par With Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Should the U.S. Response Be Similar? - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept (2/19/18)

Extreme rhetoric about Russian "meddling" is long of fulmination, but short of specifics. If these talking heads really think American democracy is under attack, what do they think should be done about it - and what are the inevitable, though often unspoken, consequences of that reaction?

US Media Turn to ‘Superhero’ Pence to Combat Korean Olympic Peace Threat - Adam Johnson, FAIR (2/14/18)

The two Koreas are making peace moves without US approval and American media is super pouty about it. 

Uwe Boll Accuses Paul Thomas Anderson of Ripping Off His ‘BloodRayne’ Poster for ‘Phantom Thread - Michael Nordine, IndieWire (2/10/18)

This story has no political or moral utility Adam just thought it was hilarious. 

US ‘Stumbled Into Torture,’ Says NYT Reporter - Adam Johnson, FAIR (2/15/18)

New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane thinks the US only does bad things by accident.