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To best understand inequality, think class, not generation
Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.
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War on Gaza: Death toll from Israeli assault could exceed 186,000, Lancet warns
Letter published by experts in the British medical journal estimated that some 10,000 people could still be buried in the rubble in Gaza.
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Activists to protest NATO Summit in Washington
NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.
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A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia
Andy Merrifield went to Sardinia searching for Gramsci’s phantom. We can’t reinvent Gramsci’s past, shouldn’t reinvent that past. But we might keep his memory alive, find solidarity in that memory, keep him free from any renaming, from the encyclopedia and the axe. His phantom, his death mask, can haunt our present and our future. To remember what happened to him is never to forget his dark times, the dark times that might well threaten us again.
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Reimagining lost visual archives of Black and Indigenous resistance
How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?
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Oklahoma’s Bible requirement is a part of a broader Rightwing assault
The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.
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The specific form of poverty under capitalism
There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.
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Evaluating Roger Casement
PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a valuable contribution to a wider understanding of the remarkable human rights activist turned Irish freedom fighter.
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The war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will end: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2024)
In order to allow for a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict in the Congo today, this newsletter presents an analysis of the resource theft and processes of imperialism and colonialism that have long plagued this part of Africa, including the fight over raw materials that are key for the electronic age.
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NYT unleashes the Lab Leak theory on the public debate once again
The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.
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Soft power and the ‘transition to democracy’
VA writer Andreína Chávez delves into Washington’s soft power strategies to destabilize countries in the name of Western-style “democracy.”
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Six Supreme Court judges declare the U.S. a dictatorship
Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.
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The corporate greed behind Bird Flu
If we want to protect consumers from disease and price-gouging, we need to tackle the food monopolies and industrial factory farms that control our food system.
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Tobacco companies are at it again
Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.
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Emissions increase as climate disaster intensifies
CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.
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Ansar Allah are not working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
U.S. and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the U.S. is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.
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When the empire strikes back, will the African world be ready?
These are dark days for the empire.
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People’s history of fourth of July
A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.
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Debunking the school choice movement’s top evangelist
Corey DeAngelis is on a mission to demonize public schools—and promote voucher programs that benefit his wealthy backers.
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Israel is stoking all-out war, and Canada is complicit
Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.