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  • Bank Job directors Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn

    Review – ‘Bank Job’

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 20, 2021 by Jake Woodier (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2021)

    Jake Woodier reviews a new documentary film that brings heist aesthetics to a story of debt activism

  • Who are the 10 biggest pandemic profiteers?

    Originally published: Inequality on March 23, 2021 by Chuck Collins (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2021)

    One year after the COVID-19 pandemic began, U.S. billionaires have made out like gangbusters at the expense of workers.

  • The Cold War

    A Cold War re-education in 8 minutes

    Originally published: Lets Try Democracy on March 21, 2021 by David Swanson (more by Lets Try Democracy)  | (Posted Mar 23, 2021)

    Remarks at the Cold War Truth Commission

  • Raising of the NATO flag DRAWSKO POMORSKIE TRAINING AREA, Poland--The NATO flag is raised during the opening ceremony for Exercise Steadfast Jazz here Nov. 3. Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013 is taking place from 1-9 November in a number of Alliance nations including the Baltic States and Poland. The purpose of the exercise is to train and test the NATO Response Force, a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and special forces components that the Alliance can deploy quickly wherever needed. The Steadfast series of exercises are part of NATO’s efforts to maintain connected and interoperable forces at a high-level of readiness. (NATO photo by British army Sgt. Ian Houlding)

    Terminate NATO

    Originally published: The Future of Freedom Foundation Jacob G. Hornberger on March 19, 2021 (more by The Future of Freedom Foundation Jacob G. Hornberger)  | (Posted Mar 23, 2021)

    The fact is that NATO should never have been established in the first place. Moreover, the biggest mistake in U.S. history was to convert the federal government to a national-security state.

  • “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity”

    Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity”

    Originally published: The International Marxist-Humanist on March 16, 2021 by Arturo Rodriguez, Kevin Russel Magill, Ndindi Kitonga and Sheila L. Macrine (more by The International Marxist-Humanist) (Posted Mar 22, 2021)

    A Book review symposium on Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity” (2019, Peter Lang Publishing) by Kitonga, Macrine, Magill, and Rodriguez — Editors

  • Jack Ma

    Jack Ma is not the problem

    Eds.

    Broadly speaking, beneath these diverse incidents lies a single force. A great teacher and his generation warned of and suppressed it, but it has sprouted once more since the 1980s. After 40 years, it has taken root in multiple facets of our lives, including thought, society, reality and power.

  • President Biden (Naresh777/Shutterstock) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Sasa Dzambic Photography/Shutterstock)

    Calling Putin a ‘killer’ with ‘no soul’ is not exactly diplomatic finesse

    Originally published: Responsible Statecraft on March 18, 2021 by Anatol Lieven (more by Responsible Statecraft) (Posted Mar 22, 2021)

    Meanwhile, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the “killer” jab a “very bad statement by the U.S. president,” ​that indicated “he doesn’t want to normalize relations.”

  • Then-Vice President Joe Biden visits U.S. troops occupying Korea in 2013. Credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Brian Gibbon

    Why are hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise?

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 17, 2021 by Tina Ngo, Wai Lee Chin Feman and Bethie Wang (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2021)

    Largely missing from this ongoing discussion is the role of the police and the capitalist state. The media has done an excellent job at depicting these violent acts as interpersonal and individual attacks.

  • The site of a protest in Hlaing Tharyar that saw an intense face off between the protesters and the junta’s armed forces on March 14 (Supplied)

    At least six killed after factory owner calls in military in Hlaing Tharyar

    Originally published: Myanmar Now on March 17, 2021 (more by Myanmar Now)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2021)

    Police publicly executed a woman who was the leader of the workers.

  • Photo illustration by Kat Warykow. Photo from Getty Images.

    How Chesa Boudin is pursuing his promise to reduce incarceration

    Originally published: The Appeal on March 18, 2021 by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (more by The Appeal)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2021)

    After more than a year in office—and despite pushback—the San Francisco DA’s policies have kept people out of jails and prisons.

  • Syrians rally in front of the US Embassy to demand American military intervention and a no fly zone to stop the killings in Syria, in Amman, Jordan (Photo: Flickr - Freedom House)

    Ten years since beginning of failed regime-change operation against Syria

    Originally published: Antiwar.com Blog on March 15, 2021 by Paul Antonopoulos (more by Antiwar.com Blog) (Posted Mar 19, 2021)

    The initial coalition against Syria has collapsed, with Turkey frustrated over the U.S.’ sustained support for the Kurds and the Arabs pivoting back to Syria.

  • Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World. By Jason Hickel, London: Penguin-Random House, 2020. ISBN 978-1-786-09121-5

    Jason Hickel introduces Degrowth – book review

    Originally published: Steady State Manchester on March 9, 2021 by Mark H Burton (more by Steady State Manchester) (Posted Mar 18, 2021)

    Degrowth has arrived. It makes appearances in mainstream newspapers, radio discussions and even the blog pieces of mainstream economists. In the last year several books have appeared, one of them published in the UK, by Penguin no less.

  • Social Media

    Trigger words and the duty of revolutionaries in the Internet era

    Originally published: Granma English on March 9, 2021 by Iroel Sánchez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    Anti-communist propaganda based on manipulating terms like “democracy,” “human rights” and “freedom” has expanded its repertory with certain expressions about Cuba based on a fabricated image, which are strewn across on the Internet as common knowledge

  • Uwyghur People Demand Freedom with Flag of East Turkestan in front of the U.N. Building in NYC

    The watchdogs of imperialism and the Uyghur genocide slander

    Originally published: Whats Left on March 2, 2021 by Stephen Gowans (more by Whats Left) (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    On February 26 the Canadian Parliament passed a motion, by a vote of 226 to 0, expressing the opinion that “the People’s Republic of China has” implemented “measures intended to prevent” Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim births and that these measures are “consistent with” the United Nations Genocide Convention.

  • Sculpture of Enrique de Malacca

    Magellan, inquisition and globalisation

    Originally published: JOMO on March 14, 2021 by Felice Noelle Rodriguez and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (more by JOMO)  | (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    The Philippines today struggles with this history. Some Filipinos highlight the warm native reception extended to Magellan’s fleet and the first Catholic mass, reminiscent of American Thanksgiving mythology.

  • Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine

    Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on March 2021 by John McEvoy (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    Brazil has suffered the world’s second-worst number of COVID-19 death rates, with Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 policy being described as “homicidally negligent”.

  • Activists at the National Black Women’s March Against Racism, Violence and for Well Being in Brazil.

    8M: For a revolutionary feminism, which is not a cover photo but a struggle against all exploitation

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on March 8, 2021 by Cecilia Zamudio (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Mar 16, 2021)

    March 8 commemorates the revolutionary working woman. The communist Clara Zetkin proposed the commemoration at the conference of socialist women in 1910, to honor the struggle of women against capitalist exploitation.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin (ID1974/Shutterstock) and President Joe Biden (Stratos Brilakis/shutterstock)

    Biden’s retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly

    Originally published: Responsible Statecraft on March 11, 2021 by Anatol Lieven (more by Responsible Statecraft) (Posted Mar 16, 2021)

    More importantly, the planned action reflects two very serious errors in judgement, which left unchecked, could increase in scope under the new Biden administration.

  • Marxist ecofeminists

    Women and nature: Towards an ecosocialist feminism

    Originally published: Rupture on March 10, 2021 by Jess Spear (more by Rupture) (Posted Mar 15, 2021)

    For Marxist ecofeminists, the domination of men over women in society and nature at large is therefore not a result of patriarchal ideas alone.

  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

    Murdoch Paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 12, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 15, 2021)

    There is certainly a tad of glee in the right-wing media over multiple scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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