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  • Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market

    Cold truth: The Texas freeze is a catastrophe of the Free Market

    Originally published: Institute for New Economic Thinking on February 18, 2021 by James K. Galbraith (more by Institute for New Economic Thinking)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2021)

    Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable.

  • Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism

    Role of NGOs in promoting neo-Colonialism

    Originally published: Counter Currents on February 16, 2021 by Syed Ehtisham (more by Counter Currents)  | (Posted Feb 18, 2021)

    There are literally thousands of NGOs, the better known being Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International.

  • Bronte Wittpenn / Austin American-Statesman / USA Today Network via REUTERS

    ‘Only the strong will survive’: Texas city mayor resigns for lashing out at residents asking for help during deadly storm

    Originally published: RT News on February 17, 2021 (more by RT News)  | (Posted Feb 18, 2021)

    The now former mayor of Colorado City, Texas, Tim Boyd, has resigned after two Facebook posts telling people needing help and without electricity that they are on their own.

  • Tax paperwork

    Taxes on the rich: One-sixth of what they used to be

    Originally published: Inequality on February 12, 2021 by Bob Lord and Chuck Collins (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Feb 18, 2021)

    A new IPS briefing paper highlights the unique role of tax policy in wealth concentration.

  • Leading from the front: The role of women in Farmers' movement

    Leading from the front: The role of women in Farmers’ movement

    Originally published: The Quint on February 4, 2021 by Jasbir Kaur Natt (more by The Quint)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2021)

    As lakhs of farmers continue their protest against the new farm legislations introduced by the Modi government, a remarkable number of women are not only braving the rough weather by participating in these demonstrations but are also leading from the front.

  • Vulture Funds Plan to Use the Pandemic to Pillage the Global Economy

    Vulture Funds plan to use the Pandemic to pillage the Global Economy

    Originally published: Tribune Magazine on 2021 by Matthew Ponsford and Ruairi Casey (more by Tribune Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2021)

    Before the pandemic, private equity had amassed $2.5 trillion–more than the GDP of Italy–in ‘dry powder,’ waiting for distressed assets to plunder. Covid-19 provided them with the perfect opportunity.

  • WallStreetBets

    GameStop and Share Markets: Between the bad and the ugly, there is no G

    Originally published: Socialist Project – The Bullet on February 16, 2021 by Harry Glasbeek (more by Socialist Project – The Bullet)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2021)

    The recent GameStop story coming out of the U.S. pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling and short squeezes” and, for a while, they are likely to be part of many Zoom conversations.

  • Right image: USCGC Harriet Lane transporting Haitian asylum seekers in 1991. USCG photo.

    Immigration enforcement and the afterlife of the slave ship

    Originally published: Boston Review on February 11, 2021 by Ryan Fontanilla (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2021)

    Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

  • Liberation News Biden's first directive to the war machine

    Biden’s first directive to the war machine

    Originally published: Liberation on February 11, 2021 by Patricia Gorky (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2021)

    In his first presidential visit to the Pentagon yesterday, Joe Biden announced the creation of an anti-China task force.

  • Headlines from Metro (11/29/19), Atlantic (3/9/15) and Daily Beast (1/18/19).

    States have no inherent ‘right to exist’—but it’s a media fixation on Israel/Palestine

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 12, 2021 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Feb 16, 2021)

    No state has an intrinsic “right to exist.” As international relations scholar Scott Burchill points out, there is no abstract “right to exist” in international law, or in “any serious theory of international relations.”

  • Red Nation

    The ideology and practice of the Red Nation

    Originally published: The Red Nation on September 25, 2020 (more by The Red Nation)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2021)

    Who are The Red Nation? Let them tell you.

  • A demonstrator covered with a Venezuelan flag gestures in front of security forces during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 10, 2020. Carlos Jasso/Reuters

    Preliminary findings of the visit to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights

    Originally published: Relief Web on February 12, 2021 by UN Human Rights Council (more by Relief Web)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2021)

    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms. Alena Douhan, visited the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from 1 to 12 February 2021. She thanks the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for enabling and supporting her visit to the country. The purpose of the visit was to assess the impact of unilateral sanctions on the enjoyment of human rights by people living in Venezuela and any other affected people.

  • According to the United Nations, water use has increased sixfold over the past century and is rising by about 1 per cent a year. For stock market traders in the United States, water futures offer an opportunity to lock-in water prices, but human rights campaigners say, “it is a serious mistake to consider water a commodity”. (AP/Esteban Felix)

    Water futures: the latest battleground in the defence of the fundamental right to water

    Originally published: Equal Times on February 3, 2021 by Daiva Repeckaite (more by Equal Times)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2021)

    Stock market trading in water futures is the latest battleground in the defense of the fundamental right to water.

  • A statue of Engels in Manchester, salvaged by artist Phil Collins depicted on a tea towel

    Engels in the crosshairs

    Originally published: Real Democracy Movement on February 9, 2021 by Corinna Lotz (more by Real Democracy Movement) (Posted Feb 13, 2021)

    Frederick Engels was Karl Marx’s closest friend and collaborator. In the light of the ongoing ecological crisis and COVID-19 pandemic, Engels’ Dialectics of Nature takes on a new significance.

  • A mass demonstration is held in front of Federal Courthouse in New York City, June 6, 1949, to protest against the 'Communist conspiracy' show trial. The defendants, leaders of the Communist Party USA, were charged under the Smith Act. Joining the picket line at Foley Square are the wives of three of the twelve defendants, starting third from left, Lillian Gates, wife of Daily Worker editor John Gates; Fern Winston, wife of CPUSA leader Henry Winston; and Elizabeth Hall, wife of Ohio CP leader Gus Hall. | AP

    Is CNN jumping on the red-baiting bandwagon?

    Originally published: People's World By Tony Pecinovsky on February 4, 2021 (more by People's World By Tony Pecinovsky)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2021)

    A recent CNN article outrageously tried to put communists who were victims of U.S. government attacks in 1948 in the same boat with the criminal Trumpites who staged the attempted coup at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

  • Lula’s arrest is “a gift from the CIA”, mocked Lava Jato prosecutor

    Lula’s arrest is “a gift from the CIA”, mocked Lava Jato prosecutor

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on February 9, 2021 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2021)

    A petition filed with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) by the defence of ex-president Lula presents such new evidence that ex-judge Sergio Moro colluded with foreign authorities in conducting the process which led to the arrest of the Workers Party leader, and his subsequent barring from a run for the presidency in 2018.

  • Everest nursing home, Baneshwor, Kathmandu (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    The biopolitics of nursing homes

    Originally published: New Left Review on February 12, 2021 by Marco D'Eramo (more by New Left Review)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2021)

    Historically, the châteaux of the Loire Valley were assessed by their windows. ‘A fifty-windowed castle’, an onlooker might surmise to suggest its worth. Russian boyars quantified their properties in souls–whether dead or alive, according to Gogol’s Dead Souls.

  • Sculpture of Mexica Goddess Chicomecoatl with Ears of Corn - Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City - Mexico (Photo: Wikicommons)

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 3)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 6, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 12, 2021)

    The story of Mexico’s agriculture can be organised around two threads: corn and land.

  • Despite overcapacity, plans for coal power steadily expanded in China last year after the NEA relaxed restrictions on new coal power plants in 2019. Photo: AFP

    China’s energy watchdog under fire over pollution failures

    Originally published: South China Morning Star on February 1, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

    China’s energy regulator has come under rare fire from a team of central government inspectors over the agency’s lax enforcement of environmental standards.

  • Jovenel Moïse speaks at his inauguration ceremony after taking the oath of office, Port-au-Prince, February 7, 2017. (UN Photo / Igor Rugwiza / Flickr)

    The foreign roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional crisis”

    Originally published: nacla on February 6, 2021 by Mark Schuller (more by nacla)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

    Haiti’s president’s term has come to an end, but he refuses to step down. Solidarity is urgent.

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