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TIDBITS-SEPT. 3: READER COMMENTS: OIL IMPERIALISM; TRUMP LIES ON
MEDICARE FOR ALL; REV. JAMES LAWSON; DOLLY PARTON; NYC-DSA’S
SOCIALIST SWEEP VOLUNTEERS; THE STRAIT OF “HORN-MOOS”; WHAT GOES
ON INSIDE ISRAEL’S PRISON SYSTEM; LOTS OF EVENTS;  
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_ Reader Comments: Oil Imperialism; Trump Lies on Medicare for All;
Rev. James Lawson; Dolly Parton; DHS Historic Legacy; NYC-DSA’s
Socialist Sweep Volunteers; The Strait of "Horn-Moos"; What Goes On
Inside Israel’s Prison System; Lots of Events; _

Sept. 3, 2026-Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Cartoons,
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* Oil by stars  --  Cartoon by OSVAL (Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez)
* Lake America  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson
* Re: Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget
of the Whole Country’ (Mark)
* Re: James Lawson Was the Civil Rights Movement’s Drill Sergeant
 (Daniel Millstone; Paul Buhle)
* People will always love Dolly Parton; Donald Trump, not so much
 --  Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon
* DHS Morality  --  Cartoon and Commentary by Jesse Duquette
* Re: The Corporate Dem Asking Super PACs To Call Him a Progressive
 (Mary Porter)
* Re: Volunteers Were the Key to NYC-DSA’s Socialist Sweep
 (Marilyn Albert)
* Presidential Venn Diagram
* The Strait of "Horn-Moos"  --  Cartoon by Joe Heller
* I'm Hitting You With Tariffs and Renaming Your Lake - Take That
 --  Cartoon by Monte Wolverton
* Re: Masters of War  (Ben Manski)

 

Resources:

* What Goes On Inside Israel’s Prison System  (Alaa Salama
interviews Sahar Francis / The +972 Podcast)

 

Announcements:

* Global Virtual Public Event: Russian Neofascism: Imperialism
Abroad, Repression At Home - September 6  (Boris Kagarlitsky
International Solidarity Campaign)
* Songs in the Key of Resistance Album Release and Sing Out! - New
York - September 7
* Global event - Cuba and Africa: A Shared History of Struggle
Against Imperialism  -  Virtual - New York, Lagos, Nairobi -
September 13  (Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in
Africa)
* Resolving the U.S. Provoked Crisis in Cuba — Normalizing
Relations with Our Neighbor  - In-Person and Streamed - Washington,
DC - September 16  (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century)
* “What is Democratic Socialism”  - shifted to September 17
 (Socialist Majority Caucus of DSA) 

..OIL BY STARS  --  CARTOON BY OSVAL (OSVALDO GUTIÉRREZ GÓMEZ)

 

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on August
29, 2026 that his country has reached the "largest oil agreement in
history" with Venezuela, which grants the US. U.S. majority control
over more than 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.

OSVAL (Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez)August 31, 2026Cartoon Movement
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_[__OSVAL_ [[link removed]]_ (Osvaldo
Gutiérrez Gómez) 26 de September 1971. A graduate of Social
Communication. Currently collaborating with Cuban publications as
Dedeté, Melaito, Pallas and the Picúa. Some awards:: Political
Satire Prize, National Salon XII graphic humor San Antonio de los
Baños, Museo del Humor. Cartoon Award, organized by the publication
humorous greeting Palante in its 45th anniversary. Third Prize XIX
International Biennial of Humor, Havana, 2015. Popularity Award at the
San A. de los Baños Biennial, Havana, 2017.]_

 

LAKE AMERICA  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON 

 

Trump’s petty insults and juvenile renaming stunts do nothing but
diminish both himself and the office he holds. With nearly every
outburst, he lowers the tone of our political culture and cheapens
America’s image abroad.

Nick AndersonAugust 31, 2026Pen Strokes
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RE: TRUMP LIES THAT MEDICARE FOR ALL WOULD COST ‘ENTIRE BUDGET OF
THE WHOLE 

This is, of course, perjury, and I CAN PROVE IT. A lot of people are
commenting on the recent study. I, personally, did something no one
else, including the media has done: here are the actual numbers.

Around 2016, I  looked it up, choosing to look at Medicaid numbers,
since that would be the majority of the population. Medicaid was then
paying about $7300/yr for men, and about $8400/yr for women. At the
same time, my company was paying over $12,000/yr per employee, and
most of us put in several thousand more, to get to "gold"... which is
what Medicaid, and Medicare, provide.

Tell me there's one company out there that would not instantly want to
save around $4000/yr per employee. Now add in that with Medicare for
all, the payments would go to the doctors, and so NO MORE "Oh, you're
insured, but they were out of plan".

mark

 

RE: JAMES LAWSON WAS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT’S DRILL SERGEANT 

The autobiography of Jim Lawson, of blessed memory, a key mover and
shaker of the Nashville Movement is reviewed here by Chris Maisano

Daniel MillstonePost on Facebook

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the phrase Drill Sergeant is unneeded and unwanted, as anyone
subjected to a drill s would know.

Paul BuhlePost on Facebook

 

PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS LOVE DOLLY PARTON; DONALD TRUMP, NOT SO MUCH  --
 CARTOON BY BRUCE MACKINNON 

 

Bruce MacKinnonAugust 27, 2026The ChronicleHerald
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DHS MORALITY  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JESSE DUQUETTE 

 

DHS has no moral bottom, so it was with precisely zero surprise that
we learned of plans to provide ICE agents with electrically charged
gloves with which to shock people. Ostensibly this is because they
can’t seem to stop murdering people in the streets, but I think
they’re just excited to try out new ways to be even more hated than
they already are.

Jesse DuquetteAugust 13, 2026Jesse Duquette
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RE: THE CORPORATE DEM ASKING SUPER PACS TO CALL HIM A PROGRESSIVE 

Seth Moulton is a vile corporate Dem currently sniveling that he's a
progressive, trying to take down  our true-blue progressive senator,
Ed Markey.  He has tried this before.

Mary PorterPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: VOLUNTEERS WERE THE KEY TO NYC-DSA’S SOCIALIST SWEEP 

The Establishment Democrats use a consultant-profiteering driven
campaigning featuring what are now are irrelevant methods - such as
buying big television ads. The Donor-Consultant predominance over the
centrist Democrats may be the end of the Dem Party as we know it.

Marilyn AlbertPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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PRESIDENTIAL VENN DIAGRAM 

 

THE STRAIT OF "HORN-MOOS"  --  CARTOON BY JOE HELLER 

Dilemma time ...

Joe HellerAugust 29, 2026Bozeman Daily Chronicle
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I'M HITTING YOU WITH TARIFFS AND RENAMING YOUR LAKE - TAKE THAT  --
 CARTOON BY MONTE WOLVERTON 

 

Monte WolvertonAugust 28, 2026Monte Wolverton
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RE: MASTERS OF WAR

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Hey friends

Dylan actually moved to Madison, and then to NYC.

Ben Manskihttp://www.BenManski.com

 

 

 

WHAT GOES ON INSIDE ISRAEL’S PRISON SYSTEM

Alaa Salama interviews Sahar Francis

August 31, 2026The +972 Podcast
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I’m terrified of prison. I grew up between Syria and Palestine —
both places where people are constantly disappeared into facilities
notorious for torture and abuse, and where prisoners waste away for
months, years, and sometimes even decades with little to no legal
oversight. The brutality, the humiliation, and the randomness of it
all is the stuff of nightmares. Anyone can find themselves being
abducted and locked away simply for being in the wrong place at the
wrong time.

It’s no secret that since October 2023, Israel’s abuse of
Palestinian prisoners has reached unprecedented levels of cruelty. It
is impossible to forget the images from Gaza of hundreds of women,
men, and children stripped naked between the ruins of their destroyed
neighborhoods, rounded up and hauled into trucks to god-knows-where
The reports that began surfacing soon after — of secret military
facilities, torture, sexual abuse, starvation, and killings — were
bone-chilling. 

At the same time, Israel ramped up its detention of journalists,
activists, and ordinary people all across the West Bank, imprisoning
them for months or even years without charge. Those who came out are
often unrecognizable: emaciated, traumatized, and bearing physical
marks of torture and medical neglect.

The faces of those detainees, especially the ones we saw being rounded
up in Gaza, still haunt me, along with the simple question that in
many cases remains impossible to answer: What happened to them? 

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That is why sitting down with human rights lawyer Sahar Francis for
the latest episode of The +972 Podcast was both essential and
profoundly heavy. Sahar has spent decades defending Palestinians in
Israeli prisons. She has dedicated her life to helping those whom the
Israeli authorities are doing everything possible to isolate and
erase. The Gazans we saw being rounded up? Sahar has met some of them.
The widespread reports of sexual abuse we’ve read? Sahar has
listened to firsthand accounts from survivors, and pursued their cases
against a judicial system that does not recognize their basic
humanity.

This is the precedent Israel is setting for the world: a reality in
which anyone can be snatched from their home, thrown into a military
vehicle, and disappeared into a desert facility without charge or
trial. And it should terrify all of us. As Sahar explains, Israeli and
American efforts to shield Israel from accountability are dismantling
the very international legal framework meant to protect civilians
everywhere. 

This was not an easy episode to record, and it will not be easy to
listen to. But it is vital for understanding the reality Palestinians
face today, and the decades of systemic brutality that led us here.

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_The effects of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza are still being
felt: much of the Strip lies in ruins, millions remain displaced with
nowhere to return to, tens of thousands have been killed, and many
more are believed to be buried beneath the rubble._

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Palestinians from refugee camps, while state-sponsored settler
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GLOBAL VIRTUAL PUBLIC EVENT: RUSSIAN NEOFASCISM: IMPERIALISM ABROARD,
REPRESSION AT HOME - SEPTEMBER 6  (Boris Kagarlitsky International
Solidarity Campaign) 

 

_PANEL, SOCIALISM 2026_

RUSSIAN NEOFASCISM: IMPERIALISM ABROAD, REPRESSION AT HOME

DATE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2026

 

TIMES: Los Angeles 08:00 | Chicago 10:00 | New York, Montreal, Vermont
11:00 | Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires 12:00 | England, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland 16:00 | Central European Time 17:00 | Ukraine 18:00 | Moscow
18:00 | Tbilisi 19:00 | Karachi 20:00 | New Delhi 20:30 | Taipei, Hong
Kong 23:00 | Tokyo 24:00| Sydney 01:00 Monday | Auckland 03:00

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_Vladimir Putin responded to democratic uprising in Russia’s former
empire by repressing domestic dissent and launching an imperialist war
on Ukraine. In a discussion of their new book, _Russia’s New
Imperialism_, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev will be joined by
Robert Brenner and Yulia Yurchenko to examine Putin’s neofascist
project, Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination, and today’s
inter-imperial rivalries.__SPEAKERS:_

* ILYA BUDRAITSKIS, co-author of _Russia’s New Imperialism_
* ILYA MATVEEV, co-author of _Russia’s New Imperialism_
* ROBERT BRENNER, Professor Emeritus UCLA, editor at _New Left
Review_, author of _Economics of Global Turbulence_
* YULIA YURCHENKO,  author of _Ukraine and the Empire of Capital:
From Marketization to Armed Conflict_

BORIS KAGARLITSKY INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN · KAMENOVO,
VIJESNO BR 5 · BUDVA 85310 · MONTENEGRO

 

SONGS IN THE KEY OF RESISTANCE ALBUM RELEASE AND SING OUT! - NEW YORK
- SEPTEMBER 7 

 

 

ST. MARK'S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERYNEW YORK, NY

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7  •  6 PM - 8 PM

Join us for an evening of music, community, and collective action as
we celebrate the new Songs in the Key of Resistance album.

Throughout the evening, we'll teach songs that inspire courage and
solidarity, strengthen our efforts to defend voting rights, stand with
immigrant communities facing attacks, and equip us to protect one
another through the power of collective song. THIS CELEBRATION IS FREE
AND OPEN TO ALL, BUT REGISTRATION IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Capacity is
limited to 300 PEOPLE,

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR PARTNERS FOR THIS EVENT:

* _St Marks Church in-the-Bowery_
* _Interfaith Center of NY_
* _La Iglesia del Pueblo_
* _The New York Immigration Coalition_
* _GreenFaith_
* _Sing In Solidairty_
* _Gaia_
* _Mothers On The Move / Madres En Movimiento_
* _Judson Memorial Church_
* _Riverside Church NYC_

 

 

GLOBAL EVENT - CUBA AND AFRICA: A SHARED HISTORY OF STRUGGLE AGAINST
IMPERIALISM  -  VIRTUAL - NEW YORK, LAGOS, NAIROBI - SEPTEMBER 13
 (COALITION FOR THE ELIMINATION OF IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA)

 

SEP 13, 2026 01:00 PM  IN  EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)

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Join us for a discussion about the longstanding revolutionary
solidarity between Cuba and the African continent. Cuba remains a
shining example of internationalism and holds a special place in the
history of people’s struggles against imperialism. While many
African countries were fighting colonialism, foreign domination, and
the apartheid regime, Cuba provided significant support to several
national liberation movements. Thousands of Cuban internationalists
contributed to decisive battles for independence, while fostering
cooperation in the fields of health, education, and training.

Today, American imperialism has heightened its attacks against Cuba by
strengthening its energy blockade and threatening a military
intervention. African people cannot continue to be mere witnesses--we
must act in defense of Cuba, the same way Cuba once acted in our
defense.

 

RESOLVING THE U.S. PROVOKED CRISIS IN CUBA — NORMALIZING RELATIONS
WITH OUR NEIGHBOR  - IN-PERSON AND STREAMED - WASHINGTON, DC -
SEPTEMBER 16  (THE INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY) 

 

A crucial national forum in conjunction with the 55th Annual
Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference to intensify the
collective effort to end the devastating fuel embargo and stranglehold
of the U.S. on the self-determination of the sovereign nation of Cuba
and its people.

EVENT DETAILS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 · 7 PM ETThe Historic New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church1313 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C. xxxxxx

JOIN US IN PERSON OR WATCH VIA LIVESTREAM.Livestream details will
follow.

SPECIAL GUEST AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER

DR. RALPH GONSALVESFormer Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines

 
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves
ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS

Plus, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Black professionals,
civil rights and faith organizations.

HOSTED BY: Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Pan African
Unity Dialogue, Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener.

SHARE THE FIRST CALL

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ABOUT IBW21IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is
committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S.
and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political
equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.

 

“WHAT IS DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM”  - SHIFTED TO SEPTEMBER 17
 (SOCIALIST MAJORITY CAUCUS OF DSA) 

Because the original date for this event fell on Rosh Hashanah, we
rescheduled it for Thursday, Sept. 17. We hope you will be able to
join us on this new date

What is Democratic Socialism? Explore the answer with leading
organizers and thinkers. Moderated by SUSAN KANG, the panel will
feature CHRIS MAISANO, BILL FLETCHER, JR., BARBARA SMITH, and New York
Assemblymember DIANA MORENO. Discussants will include ALEX
CAPUTO-PEARL, JEREMY COHAN, JOSE ALEJANDRO LA LUZ, KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ,
and JANA SILVERMAN.

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THURSDAY SEP 17, 2026 ? 8PM – 9:30PM (EASTERN TIME - NEW YORK)

Organizer: SMC Leadership - [email protected]

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