Thursday Interesting Links

• Asad Haider, an editor at Viewpoint Magazine, on the present dominance of Black Nationalist narratives in the Black Lives Matter movements, thru the lens of Amiri Baraka

• On the continuties in the history and culture of East Africa and South Asia (and some drama in the comments)

• Some observations on the geopolitical implications of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports

• Interview with Palestinian anarchists

• “Myth-Busting French Counter-Insurgency” (almost certainly applicable to modern myths about the US counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere)

• In-depth article on the CIA-controlled paramilitary groups in Afghanistan, implicated in killings and disappearances via New York Times

Tuesday Interesting Links

• From Jacobin Magazine: “In his last interview, Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.”

• Interfluidity on the Greek crisis, the betrayal of the political intentions behind the Eurozone, and the horrifying mess that creditors have made of Greek’s economy

• A right-wing Turkish perspective on the PYD and Rojava–perhaps a warning sign to radical leftist Kurds that the alliance with the West is going to come to an end soon?

• Once again, LNG exports from the US are hitting serious economic obstacles

• [PDF] The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy (June 2015)