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Caroline Kennedy sworn in as ambassador to Japan

Posted on November 19, 2013 by fish

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Caroline Kennedy sworn in as ambassador to Japan.

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Back to School September 23, 2021
A preview of our Fall 2021 issue.
Editors
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony September 22, 2021
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
Cedric Johnson
The Laws of Forever War September 20, 2021
In Humane, historian Samuel Moyn argues that efforts to make U.S. wartime conduct less brutal have helped pave the way for a policy of permanent armed counterterrorism.
Nick Serpe
A New Political Identity September 17, 2021
Occupy Wall Street was the critical event in the formation of a novel anticapitalist intellectual milieu.
Gabriel Winant
Why Did the Western Left Ignore Occupy Nigeria? September 17, 2021
With millions of participants flooding the streets of Nigerian cities and towns, it was the largest Occupy movement in the world. Yet ten years later, little has been written about Occupy Nigeria.
Zachariah Mampilly
Talking in Circles September 17, 2021
Ten years on, Occupy’s demands have shaken off their aura of eccentricity. But there’s far less hope about the utopian possibilities of enabling everyone to speak at once.
Rebecca Panovka
Higher Education for the 99 Percent September 17, 2021
The radical agenda set by the debtors’ campaigns that emerged from Occupy Wall Street have slowly reshaped Democratic Party politics.
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
The Debts That Bind September 17, 2021
Strike Debt’s insistence that debtors “owe each other everything and owe Wall Street nothing” remains a potent rebuke to a financial system dependent on the narrative of individual responsibility and personal fault.
Wen Zhuang
Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman September 16, 2021
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
Lessons from the Public Power Campaign September 15, 2021
This summer, two popular bills to democratize New York’s energy system died in the state legislature. A revived campaign will need both sympathetic legislators and the direct action tactics of social movements.
Ashley Dawson

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Ep 159 - Forever Wars and No Strike Clause w/ Adam H Johnson September 22, 2021
Sean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire. Then, with some extra time, Sean gives […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
BONUS: The Strokes Did 9-11 (PREVIEW) September 17, 2021
The crew discuss some of the cultural changes that happened in New York City and the country following the attacks of September 11th through the lens of the biggest band of that era, The Strokes. Sign up as a member at Patreon.com/theAntifada to unlock this episode and all of our fine bonus content!
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
Ep 158 - 9/11's Worst Responders w/ Research & Destroy September 15, 2021
We share our stories of 9/11 (some more harrowing than others) and commemorate some of the lesser known actions of the NYPD and FDNY with one of the anonymous members of Research and Destroy NYC Check out our bonus episode on the Strokes and NYC after 9/11 by becoming a patron at http://patreon.com/theantifada Download Research […]
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BONUS: Memes Without Ends w/ Meg Williams (preview) September 10, 2021
Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot. Can we […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
Ep 157 - Steel this Book w/ Zhana Kurti, Dave Ranney, Kingsley Clarke September 8, 2021
The late Noel Ignatiev's comrades Zhana Kurti (from Hard Crackers) and Dave Ranney and Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization discuss the release of Acceptable Men, a memoir of Noel's time in the '70s as militant worker in the larger US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana. Buy Acceptable Men from Charles H. Kerr Books […]
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PREVIEW - History is a Weapon 11: The Sorrows of Empire w/ Matt Christman September 1, 2021
Matt and Sean have returned to talk about the disastrous defeat of the United States in Afghanistan: How did this happen and how does it implicate the American Imperial project? Why was the War on Terror? How is Biden's withdrawal linked to broader strategic interests (Cold War with China)? Whither American capitalist hegemony in the […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy

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