Saturday Interesting Links

• “Pinoy Weekly columnist and activist Teo S. Marasigan writes a quick but exhaustive rebuttal of the essay on the Philippine Left and revolutionary movement that came out in Jacobin Magazine’s website.”

• An interesting, somewhat long read on the theory and practice of chavismo and Venezuelan socialism, as seen through the theories of Enrique Dussel

• A brief survey by two University of California professors on scholarship around effective counter-insurgency strategies

• The Bail Trap–“Every year, thousands of innocent people are sent to jail only because they can’t afford to post bail, putting them at risk of losing their jobs, custody of their children — even their lives.”

• New research on food shocks, climate change, and international trade networks

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