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BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”
George Lipsitz: The Danger Zone is Everywhere focuses on how unjust access to housing and health skews opportunities and life chances along racial lines. It argues that housing insecurity and poor health are key components of an unjust, destructive and deadly racial order. The book shows how the tort model of injury in law and the biomedical model of health work to occlude structural racism by treating socially produced injuries as personal problems.
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CIA says no evidence Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon
The comments from CIA Director William Burns come amid calls for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Climate crisis enters ‘critical and unpredictable new phase’
Scientists warn: ‘The future of humanity hangs in the balance.’
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Imperialism’s striving for expansion
The further development of the centralisation of capital, leading to its consolidation, has on the one hand muted inter-imperialist rivalry, since capital now wants the entire world, not broken up into spheres of influence of rival powers, as the domain for its unrestricted movement; on the other hand it has also led to an attempt on the part of now-united imperialism to reassert its hegemony over the territories that had broken off from it earlier.
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The Shift: Recent reports reveal how deeply implicated the U.S. is in the Gaza genocide
In recent weeks a number of stories have broken revealing key details about the Biden administration’s foreign policy support for Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
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They now know what real bombing means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)
Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians.
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Tampa students fight for freedom of speech on campus, face further repression
Students gathered to begin the rally when Dean of Students Danielle McDonald stopped the students and prevented the rally from happening.
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Social media beyond corporate control
Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.
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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head
The evidence is undeniable, and the sourcing is as solid as it gets. There are mountains upon mountains of rock solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza.
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Labour has turned its back on Trans justice
Once the natural home of LGBT+ activists, Labour’s latest policy shifts show that instead of challenging the right-wing media’s anti-trans frenzy, the party is joining in.
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Cuba requests entry into the BRICS
On Monday, the Director of General Affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Carlos Pereira, announced that his country had requested to join BRICS+.
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UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting rolls out Labour’s first attacks on NHS
Britain’s Labour government has begun rolling out its National Health Service (NHS) privatisation programme, and clampdown on health workers’ pay.
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Measuring global poverty
To track progress towards its goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the UN relies on World Bank estimates of the share of the world population that fall below the so-called International Poverty Line (IPL).
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Israel subjects northern Gaza to one of the most violent campaigns of its genocide; int’l intervention required
Israeli occupation forces have intensified their siege of the Jabalia camp and the surrounding neighborhoods, including Tal al-Zaatar, al-Sikka, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia.
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GDR at 75: The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process
The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process.
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Peace was paramount
The state doctrine of the GDR was: “Never again must a war start from German soil.”
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Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis
Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine.
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Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics
For much of the twentieth century, Marx’s ideas inspired anti-colonialism and other movements for social justice worldwide.
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Exposing bias against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates is predictably accused of bias by CBS
Acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates returned to nonfiction with his essay collection The Message, published on October 1, only to be met with patronizing dismissal and a whiff of racism on CBS Mornings
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Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza
In an exclusive new documentary, Max Blumenthal rips the cover off the media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed after October 7 to create political space for its gruesome assault on the Gaza Strip.