[Link] Jury Selection at the Charlottesville White Nationalist Trial Has Been Wild

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Jury selection was always going to be an arduous and challenging process in Sines vs. Kessler, a massive civil suit brought by nine survivors of the violence in Charlottesville against 20 white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations.

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[Link] Around the world, the disadvantaged have been left behind by politicians of all hues

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Given the steep rise in economic inequality in many parts of the world since the 1980s, one might have expected to see increasing political demands for the redistribution of wealth and the return of class-based politics. This didn’t quite happen – or at least not straightforwardly.

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