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Right image: USCGC Harriet Lane transporting Haitian asylum seekers in 1991. USCG photo.

Immigration enforcement and the afterlife of the slave ship

Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

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Beyond the Sprouts of Capitalism
by Ken Hammond
The contemporary political economy of the People’s Republic of China, the nature of the Chinese system, has been the subject of much discussion and debate in mainstream academic, media, and political circles, as well as on the left. Yet one can only make sense of contemporary China with a clear understanding of the country’s economic history.
U.S. Exceptionalism Surges Again. Will It Fly?
by M. K. Bhadrakumar
In a statement marking the “return” of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken disclosed that the Biden Administration is placing democracy and human rights at the centre of American foreign policy.

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