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  • Cornel West: Palestine Is a “Taboo Issue Among Certain Circles in High Places”

    Cornel West: Palestine is a “taboo issue among certain circles in high places”

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on February 24, 2021 by Azad Essa (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Mar 04, 2021)

    Activist and scholar says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation.

  • China Money: Chinese Currency, Rates & Money Exchange

    Debt relief with Chinese characteristics

    Originally published: China Africa Research Initiative on June 2021 Issue No. 39 by Kevin Acker, Deborah Brautigam, and Yufan Huang (more by China Africa Research Initiative) (Posted Mar 03, 2021)

    As China is poised to become the world’s largest creditor, concerns about debt sustainability have grown. Yet considerable confusion exists over what is likely to happen when a government runs into trouble repaying its Chinese loans.

  • The Class Character of the Expansion of COVID-19: The Case of Peru’s Capital City Lima

    The class character of the expansion of COVID-19: The case of Peru’s Capital City Lima

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 25, 2021 by Jan Lust (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2021)

    At the end of December 2019, the world was notified about the existence of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in China. This virus, SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), rapidly spread and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.

  • Yaku Perez supporters protest in front of the National Electoral Council headquarters

    Ecuador: from horror to electoral debate

    Originally published: Pagina|12 by Marco Teruggi (Translation on 2/28/2021 by Internationalist 360°) (more by Pagina|12 by Marco Teruggi (Translation) (Posted Mar 02, 2021)

    Amidst denunciations and accusations the campaign for the April 11 runoff begins.

  • Ecosocialism versus degrowth: a false dilemma

    Ecosocialism versus degrowth: a false dilemma

    Originally published: Undisciplined Environments on February 9, 2021 by Giacomo D'Alisa (more by Undisciplined Environments)  | (Posted Mar 01, 2021)

    Ecosocialists and degrowthers need to map the many overlaps of their views to improve the effectiveness of their shared struggle for an ecologically-sound and socially-fair world free from patriarchal, racial and colonial legacy.

  • IN the week before the historic nationwide farmers’ struggle completed three months on February 26, the BJP has begun to pay a heavy political price for its pro-corporate adamancy.

    BJP begins to pay political price as farmers struggle completes three months

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on February 28, 2021 by Ashok Dhawale (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Mar 01, 2021)

    IN the week before the historic nationwide farmers’ struggle completed three months on February 26, the BJP has begun to pay a heavy political price for its pro-corporate adamancy.

  • Malcolm X

    FBI, NYPD exposed: Deathbed confession shines new light on assassination of Malcolm X

    Originally published: Liberation on February 22, 2021 by Sameena Rahman (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2021)

    Without any training, Wood’s job was to infiltrate civil rights organizations and encourage leaders and members to commit felonious acts. He was also tasked with ensuring that Malcolm X’s security detail was arrested days prior to the assassination, guaranteeing Malcolm X didn’t have door security while at the Audubon Ballroom.

  • Illegal logging on Pirititi indigenous Amazon lands. (Photo: Flickr - quapan)

    We have to change our suicidal ways and reconcile with nature to tackle climate crises and pandemics

    Originally published: Daily Maverick on February 25, 2021 by Roland Ngam (more by Daily Maverick) (Posted Feb 27, 2021)

    Every day, entrepreneurs in Brazil cut down more of the Amazon to produce cheap soybeans for animals in Europe and America. Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia tear up their forests to produce cheap coffee and palm oil for the world.

  • The Pandemic: Half a million lives lost in U.S., more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined

    The Pandemic: Half a million lives lost in U.S., more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined

    Originally published: Countercurrents on February 23, 2021 by Countercurrents Collective (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2021)

    Over half a million people have died of coronavirus in the U.S. Grasping the enormity–half a million people gone–is difficult to visualize.

  • Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Ministry for the Future’

    Catastrophe and Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Ministry for the Future’

    Originally published: Tropics of Meta on February 12, 2021 by Eric Morales-Franceschini (more by Tropics of Meta)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2021)

    We need no longer speculate about whether we live in a climate emergency. The scientific verdict has been out for some time now, each year’s report grimmer than the last.

  • Steven Donziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price

    Hundreds of law students announce boycott of Chevron law firm Seward & Kissel for “unethical” private prosecution of human rights attorney Steven Donziger

    Originally published: Stanford Environmental Law Society on February 24, 2021 (more by Stanford Environmental Law Society) (Posted Feb 26, 2021)

    Students from over 50 leading U.S. law schools–including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and New York University–have announced a recruiting boycott of a prominent Chevron law firm to protest its “unethical” private prosecution of U.S. human rights lawyer Steven Donziger after he helped win a $9.5 billion pollution judgment against Chevron.

  • Cuba health official

    Cuba has assisted almost one third of the world’s population in health care

    Originally published: Cuba News on February 23, 2021 (more by Cuba News)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2021)

    In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).

  • Volunteers packing food for people affected by the pandemic

    Human nature is no barrier to socialism

    Originally published: Red Flag on February 20, 2021 by Louise O'Shea (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2021)

    Of all the reasons to be angry during the pandemic—the profit-first response of governments, the neglected state of the health system, the environmental crisis underpinning the disaster, the millions dead—it has been people buying extra toilet paper that has elicited the most outrage.

  • Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.” [Source: africanglobe.net]

    How did a fateful CIA coup—executed 55 years ago this February 24—doom much of sub-Saharan Africa?

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on February 24, 2021 by Charles Quist-Adade, Ph.D (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2021)

    Fifty-five years ago on this day, the fate of Africa was irrevocably altered when the CIA sponsored a 1966 coup d’état against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.”

  • Dzungar genocide(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    Does the West repeating claims of China committing genocide in Xinjiang reify it?

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on February 22, 2021 by Kim Petersen (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Feb 24, 2021)

    The Jewish Virtual Library quotes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as having said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

  • Medical Racism Has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries / Photo: Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

    Medical racism has shaped U.S. policies for centuries

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 17, 2021 by Deirdre Cooper Owens (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Feb 24, 2021)

    The link between the 1793 yellow fever epidemic and the coronavirus.

  • Setting fires to stay warm

    Ice and blood in Texas

    Originally published: Sick Note on February 19, 2021 by Libby Watson (more by Sick Note) (Posted Feb 24, 2021)

    Avoidable deaths, not avoided.

  • Race/Ethnicity

    Demographic characteristics of people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States

    Originally published: CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) on February 22, 2021 (more by CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention))  | (Posted Feb 23, 2021)

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with states to provide more information on the demographic characteristics of vaccinated people.

  • A file photo of activist Varavara Rao. | IANS

    Bhima Koregaon: Varavara Rao gets bail on medical grounds for six months

    Originally published: Scroll.in on February 21, 2021 (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Feb 23, 2021)

    Just as the Bombay HC pronounced the verdict, the additional solicitor general sought a stay on the order for three weeks. However, the court rejected it.

  • Miguel Díaz-Canel and Xi Jinping

    Partners: China and Cuba

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on February 20, 2021 by Donald Canton (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2021)

    In the 1960s, the main forms of the Chinese assistance offered to Cuba were preferential trade and interest-free loans. From 1961 to 1965, China gave Cuba an interest-free loan of 60 million U.S. dollars.

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