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Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz
The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront.
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If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $44 today
The 2020 bonus pool for 182,100 securities industry employees could pay for more than 1 million jobs paying $15 per hour for a year.
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Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world
After over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life, International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19 crisis so far and craft visions for a future centred on the value of social reproduction.
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The complex legacy of China’s cinematic pirates
Film and TV piracy are under increasing pressure in China. The void they’re leaving behind will be hard to fill.
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A message of love and life from Cuba to Mexico
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez notes the impressive work of the third group of medical professionals from the Henry Reeve Contingent returning from Mexico, after joining the COVID-19 battle there.
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“Poor rich Haiti” or how imperialists and local oligarchy have sought destroy agriculture in Haiti
From Haiti, Lautaro Rivara unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.
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Stop anti-Chinese hate, but not anti-China politics?
Can we expect people of Asian and Chinese descent to unite in a broad front against American imperialism?
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12 Arrested in Hebei for fabricating emission data
Local companies were found to be collaborating with an emission monitoring company to skirt environmental standards.
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“I felt an urgency the publishing industry did not share”: Michael Mark Cohen and cartooning capitalism
I spent a tremendous amount of time digging around in old socialist and union newspapers, journals, magazines and pamphlets where I expected to read the work of earnest revolutionaries discussing socialist strategy and news from the latest strikes around the world. Of course, I found all that and more. – Michael Mark Cohen
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ExxonMobil versus Chevron: Fight for second-to-last place among fossil fuel companies has begun
As the weather grows warmer, bears, birds, and corporate America begin to emerge from their respective hibernations. Bears will awaken hungry with thoughts of berries; birds will fly north, reversing their southern migration; corporate America will prepare their proxies and ballots. Soon it will be annual general meeting (AGM) season.
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Britain and China: Trading sanctions and the new cold war
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH sees the Chinese sanctions applied to him and other politicians yesterday as a “badge of honour.”
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Amazon plays dirty in Bessemer Union Drive: Mass solidarity needed
Everyone knew that Amazon would fight the union drive in one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama. But the company’s union-busting tactics are drawing more scrutiny as the final days for workers to mail in ballots draw near.
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If Israel accuses Iran of doing something, Israel is likely already doing it
Israel has accused Iran of doing many nefarious things. But the historical record shows that whatever Israel accuses Iran of, it is likely that Israel is already doing it.
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Capitalizing on the COVID Crisis: the Ford Government’s move to privatize Public Education for EdTech
Recently, Klein coined the term “disaster capitalism” to describe how corporations profit from crises with help from the right-wing governments that pick up and implement the ideas that serve them.
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Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about “extractivism” in Latin America
Americas Quarterly and AS/COA’s media arm ran a de-facto PR campaign for discredited Operation Lava Jato, which helped impeach Dilma Rousseff, jail Lula, and bring a neofascist (who it called an “arch-conservative”) Jair Bolsonaro to power.
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Celebrating the Paris Commune of 1871
It all began as the sun rose over the districts of Montmartre and Belleville on 18 March 1871. Army soldiers began seizing nearly 250 cannon that had been placed in these radical, working-class areas by the National Guard, a popular Parisian militia. The soldiers had been sent by the head of the new republican government, Adolphe Thiers.
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Whose feminism? Palestine’s feminism
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
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Review – ‘Bank Job’
Jake Woodier reviews a new documentary film that brings heist aesthetics to a story of debt activism
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Who are the 10 biggest pandemic profiteers?
One year after the COVID-19 pandemic began, U.S. billionaires have made out like gangbusters at the expense of workers.
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A Cold War re-education in 8 minutes
Remarks at the Cold War Truth Commission