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  • Past continuous: Karl Marx’s Capital can help unravel the perplexities of modern-day capitalism

    Originally published: The Wire on September 12, 2017 by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2017)

    On September 14, it will be exactly 150 years since the publication of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, the first volume of Karl Marx’s epochal Das Kapital. The historicity of the book can be gauged by the fact that this first of three bulky tomes was published by a Hamburg publisher two years after the American Civil War but well above a decade before the incandescent bulb was invented. Capital however, literally acted as the bulb that shone a light on many a way.

  • The New Class War: the marginalisation of the working class in British politics

    A question of class: A new class politics, a connective antagonism

    Originally published: Transform Europe on September 4, 2017 by Mario Candeias (more by Transform Europe)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2017)

    Inequality is rising, social divisions are becoming more entrenched, social guarantees once taken for granted have yielded to a generalized culture of insecurity and a common fear of decline.

  • MLK on Capitalism

    We must have a new Poor People’s Campaign and Moral Revival

    Originally published: The Black Press USA on September 11, 2017 by Bishop William J. Barber, II (President, Repairers of the Breach) (more by The Black Press USA) (Posted Sep 12, 2017)

    Channeling the incisive analysis of our best historians, TaNehisi Coates cut through the talking points of political pundits last week to name Donald Trump America’s “First White president.” Writing for The Atlantic, the National Book Award recipient made clear how there could be no Donald Trump without President Obama. The chaos from which the whole world now suffers is a direct result of the backlash against racial progress in America.

  • Vincent Brooks, Kim Byung-joo, Leem Ho-young

    Beating the drum for a “good” nuclear war with North Korea

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 9, 2017 by Whitney Webb (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2017)

    United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has proven herself to be one of the most hawkish U.S. representatives to the UN, likely a reflection of the increasingly hawkish veer of the U.S. President Donald Trump, who had originally campaigned on anti-interventionism.

  • London City Center

    The informal empire of London

    Originally published: Chapter 7, Conversations on Dependency Theory (ebook). on June 9, 2017 (more by Chapter 7, Conversations on Dependency Theory (ebook).) (Posted Sep 11, 2017)

    The division of the world is not only by classes, but by North and South as well. And unfortunately the British left does not realise that, and the framing of being anti-neoliberal, in contrast to anti-imperialist, denies this differentiated reality.

  • Google Gag

    Yes, Google uses its power to quash ideas it doesn’t like—I know because it happened to me [updated]

    Originally published: Gizmodo on August 31, 2017 by Kashmir Hill (more by Gizmodo) (Posted Sep 10, 2017)

    Deliberately manipulating search results to eliminate references to a story that Google doesn’t like would be an extraordinary, almost dystopian abuse of the company’s power over information on the internet.… [But as a now-global monopoly] the company has an incentive to suppress information about itself.

  • French soldiers in the Central African Republic. Photo: http://www.hispantv.com

    War and colonialism in the Central African Republic

    Originally published: Granma on September 6, 2017 by Rodolfo Zamora Rielo (more by Granma)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2017)

    For the vast majority of media outlets Africa is a continent in chaos, a place of countless massacres, epidemics, and starvation caused by conflicts, that generate extremist groups which mercilessly loot, rape, and kidnap.

  • Carl Schmitt, Donald Trump, and Academic Poltical Theory | jewish philosophy place.

    Politics above law: how Trump channels far right icon Carl Schmitt without knowing it

    Originally published: Informed Comment on September 5, 2017 by Andrew Kolin (more by Informed Comment) (Posted Sep 09, 2017)

    It is safe to assume that Trump has not read the writings of the German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt, who wrote his most important books during the Weimar Republic and leading up to the Nazi regime. At the root of these writings was Schmitt’s emphasis on placing politics above law.

  • Activist being handcuffed in Berkley antifa protests

    Thugs and journalists

    Originally published: Verso on September 5, 2017 by Zoé Samudzi (more by Verso)  | (Posted Sep 06, 2017)

    The repetition of words like “thug” and “gang” in media coverage of anti-fascist demonstrators suggests the degree to which mainstream journalists, and centrists more widely, understand challenges to the state in the same euphemisms with which they express their own deep anti-blackness.

  • Why Should Schools Have Salad Bars?

    Another privatization fail: 5 things you don’t know about school lunches (but probably should)

    Originally published: AlterNet on August 28, 2017 by Cynthia Lopez (more by AlterNet)  | (Posted Sep 05, 2017)

    One thing is clear: school lunches have a long way to go, and there’s no simple solution in sight. As school districts struggle to balance costs with meeting federal nutritional standards and other requirements, students are left to weather the storm with lackluster food choices that may not be having the positive effect on their mental and physical health that educators and parents want—and are certainly not having the tastebud-pleasing effects students hope for.

  • Federica Mogherini, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Yukiya Amano

    United Nations finds Iran in total compliance with nuclear deal

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 2, 2017 by Julia Conley (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Sep 04, 2017)

    Trump and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, have regarded Iran and the agreement with suspicion, with Trump threatening to withhold certification of Iranian compliance, and saying in an interview in July, “If it was up to me, I would have had them noncompliant 180 days ago.”

  • The Arkema chemical facility in Crosby, Texas

    As Arkema plant burns, six things we know about petrochemical risks in the wake of Harvey

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on August 31, 2017 by Gretchen Goldman (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Sep 01, 2017)

    In many ways, Harvey is unprecedented. Yet, we live in a world where our president revokes policies that ensure our infrastructure is storm ready, where climate mitigation efforts have stagnated, and where disaster relief efforts often don’t reach those that need it most. We must do better.

  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio standing in front of Arizona inmates at Tent City.

    Freedom rider: Joe Arpaio is no aberration

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on August 30, 2017 by Margaret Kimberley (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  | (Posted Sep 01, 2017)

    Even most leftish white Americans like to think that their country is good and its institutions are fair and equitable. According to this wishful thinking human rights abuses only happen in faraway places and injustices here are resolved by reining in a few bad apples. The facts say otherwise and prove that the United States is consistently one of the worst human rights violators in the world.

  • The rule of the market in East-Central Europe is absolute [Interview].

    The rule of the market in East-Central Europe is absolute

    Originally published: A2larm on July 28, 2017 by Jaroslav Fiala interviewing Gaspár M. Tamás (more by A2larm) (Posted Aug 29, 2017)

    Nobody can say that liberal democracy has not liberated some people and that some kinds of servitude have not been obliterated. But the current system has run into a number of contradictions.

  • This picture taken by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows the test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwasong-14, at an undisclosed location on July 4, 2017.

    North Korea keeps saying it might give up its nuclear weapons – but most news outlets won’t tell you that

    Originally published: The Intercept on August 25, 2017 by Jon Shwarz (more by The Intercept)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2017)

    Starting on July 4, North Korea has been saying over and over again that it might put its nuclear weapons and missiles on the negotiating table if the United States would end its own threatening posture.

  • Riot police used water cannons during clashes with protesters against the G20 summit on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. (Michele Tantussi/Getty Images)

    Warnings of slippery slope fulfilled as Germany shutters anti-capitalist website

    Originally published: Common Dreams on August 25, 2017 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2017)

    In a move critics characterized as a dangerous threat to freedom of expression, the German government announced on Friday its decision to shut down a left-wing website it claims has links to violence that broke out during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany last month.

  • Cyber Attack. Alex Skopje.

    U.S. wages cyberwar abroad under cover of ‘activism’

    Originally published: New Eastern Outlook on August 20, 2017 by Joseph Thomas (more by New Eastern Outlook) (Posted Aug 28, 2017)

    Like many other episodes of extraterritorial political interference up to and including military intervention, America’s meddling in Thailand is done on behalf of corporate interests seeking to expand their respective and collective hegemony both regionally in Asia vís-a-vís Beijing, and globally.

  • Joshua Lott/Getty

    There’s no other way to say it: Trump’s Arpaio pardon is fascist

    Originally published: Daily Beast on August 27, 2017 by Jay Michaelson (more by Daily Beast) (Posted Aug 28, 2017)

    This is a dark moment in American history, perhaps one of the darkest, illuminated only by the broad swath of conservatives, moderates, and liberals who have rejected what Trump and Arpaio stand for. Let us pray that they—we—prevail.

  • (Photo: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock)

    The alt-right and the 1%

    Originally published: Institute for Policy Studies on August 25, 2017 by Sarah Anderson (more by Institute for Policy Studies) (Posted Aug 27, 2017)

    When President Donald Trump let loose at his Tuesday press conference, equating anti-racism protesters with neo-Nazis, it was a big hit with the men who’d taken part in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

  • President Donald Trump prepares to swing a Marucci bat, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Vice President Mike Pence, seen right, during a Made in America, product showcase featuring items created in each of the US 50 states, on Monday Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4705520/Trump-threatens-strong-swift-sanctions-against-Venezuela.html#ixzz4quvupiy6 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

    The real price of Trump’s Venezuela sanctions

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on August 25, 2017 by Ryan Mallett-Outrim (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2017)

    Until now, the sanctions have been more bark than bite, but it’s clear the Trump administration is now very eager to change this – at least in terms of public perception.

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