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  • A screenshot of the Newsclick logo. | Newsclick.in

    Modi government attacks the media

    Originally published: Scroll.in on February 10, 2021 by Scroll Staff (more by Scroll.in)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

    The Editors Guild of India, The Press Club of India and The Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemned the action against the news portal.

  • A 'Nihang' holds the Tricolor during farmers' tractor rally as part of their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Dankaur in Gautam Buddha Nagar District, Thursday, Jan. 07, 2021. PTI

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 2)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 3, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    In the previous part of this article we saw that the Indian rulers are actively preparing the legal groundwork for parting peasants from their land. In the following part we place this in an international context.

  • #FarmersDyingModiEnjoying

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 1)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on January 26, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    The protesting kisans on the borders of Delhi repeat one thing over and over: When fighting against the three farm-related Acts, they are fighting to save their land.

  • Through the “Bolivar Act” US Congressmen Intend to Tighten the Blockade Against Venezuela

    Through the “Bolivar Act” U.S. Congressmen intend to tighten the blockade against Venezuela

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on February 2, 2021 by Misiòn Verdad (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    On January 28th, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced to the U.S. Congress a new bill dedicated to Venezuela entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime Act”.

  • Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein examines a report on his company by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations before a 2010 hearing on Wall Street investment banks and the financial crisis. (AP)

    Wall Street admits curing diseases is bad for business

    Originally published: Truthdig on April 24, 2018 by Lee Camp (more by Truthdig)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.

  • TOWARDS THE MALAYSIA NARRATIVE

    Breaking the Glass Screen – Framing monopoly capitalism in global commodity chains

    Originally published: Monsoons Storms on January 6, 2021 (more by Monsoons Storms) (Posted Feb 08, 2021)

    In 2007–a digital time not spatially long ago–a month before the iPhone was production scheduled, the late Steven Jobs took some of his staff to an office. He had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket daily for weeks.

  • “China also learned from the Gulf War that the US had established its dominance and hegemony through military might. The US could beat you whenever they want to”

    How the Gulf War sparked China’s military revolution

    Originally published: Anti-Empire on February 3, 2021 by Liu Zhen (more by Anti-Empire)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2021)

    With the technology and firepower on show during the conflict – precision bombing, satellite guidance, missile interception, air-to-surface strike to eliminate tanks, electronic warfare, one-way transparency on the battlefield, stealth bombers – the Gulf War was a “psychological nuclear attack” on China, observers say.

  • Good health = mercy. (Barry Williams/for New York Daily News)

    Incarcerated and at COVID’s mercy: New York must do more for elderly imprisoned people

    Originally published: New York Daily News on February 1, 2021 by Cynthia Grant Bowman (more by New York Daily News)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2021)

    COVID-19 is now raging uncontrolled throughout the United States. New variants that are more easily transmitted have entered the country from the U.K., Brazil and South Africa. Vaccine is scarce.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Claude TRUONG-NGOC / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0, license linked at bottom of article

    Myanmar coup: the generals are back – but then they never went away

    Originally published: Counterfire on February 2, 2021 by Susan Ram (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

    Susan Ram explores the factors behind the February 1st military coup in Myanmar.

  • The Sun-Times (1/12/21) demands, “As the vaccine is rolled out to them in the coming weeks, teachers need to rise to the occasion and return to in-person teaching right now.”

    Covering school reopening, Chicago papers pit unions against parents

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 3, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

    As FAIR (12/9/20) has reported, the New York Times has pushed for reopening public schools over teachers union concerns in New York City.

  • California must lead the way in abolishing school and university campus police

    Originally published: The Sacramento Bee on January 31, 2021 by Dr. Melina Abdullah, Dr. Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley (more by The Sacramento Bee)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

    The 2020 uprisings articulated transformative visions of a world without anti-Black violence, a world without hyper-funded police forces and thus a world with deep community safety and care.

  • Cannabis

    Battle over legality of cannabis grow clubs hits high court as cops clamp down on dagga lab

    Originally published: Daily Maverick on February 3, 2021 by Caryn Dolley (more by Daily Maverick) (Posted Feb 04, 2021)

    A battle by a business that ‘privately’ grew and prepared cannabis for clients, to have this service declared lawful, landed in the Western Cape high court this week–this as police clamped down on another dagga laboratory.

  • Inside the pig farm. Photo: Farms Not Factories.

    Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’

    Originally published: Ecologist on February 1, 2021 by Neil Faulkner (more by Ecologist)  | (Posted Feb 04, 2021)

    We thought climate catastrophe the main danger. Now we know there is another. A double-whammy ecological crisis threatens collapse into dystopian chaos.

  • How does Washington Rob the Entire World?

    How does Washington rob the entire world?

    Originally published: NEO (New Eastern Outlook) on February 3, 2021 by Vladimir Danilov (more by NEO (New Eastern Outlook))  | (Posted Feb 04, 2021)

    Against the backdrop of the recent change in the White House administration, and the absence of clear harbingers of the United States’ desire to reduce the number of armed conflicts around the world, it is worth noting that in many respects the present conflicts owe their existence to how they are pumped with American weaponry.

  • The Global Struggle for Bodily Autonomy

    The global struggle for bodily autonomy

    Originally published: Rebel News on January 27, 2021 by Aislinn Shanahan Daly (more by Rebel News)  | (Posted Feb 03, 2021)

    The example of Sparta is an interesting precedent for the way in which people’s bodies have been controlled and utilized beyond their consent throughout history. The control of our bodies presupposes capitalism, but capitalism in turn has entrenched it.

  • Photo: Ismael Batista

    We are Cuba Viva, the country that insists on resisting and emerging victorious

    Originally published: Granma English on January 22, 2021 (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Feb 02, 2021)

    During 2019 and 2020 Cuba suffered the greatest impact ever from the blockade, with losses estimated at more than 5 billion dollars.

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Poland 2020

    ‘Who ended the Holocaust?’

    Originally published: Strategic Culture on January 29, 2021 by Martin SIEFF (more by Strategic Culture)  | (Posted Feb 02, 2021)

    The 2014 coup is now called with masterly irony in Wikipedia “The Revolution of Dignity.” That is a Big Lie even Josef Goebbels would have envied.

  • Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism

    Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism by Ashley J Bohrer reviewed by Christian Lotz

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 27, 2021 by Christian Lotz (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Feb 01, 2021)

    In Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism its author, Ashley J. Bohrer, presents a tour de force, offering and contributing to a wide-ranging debate that has occupied left academic and activist audiences for some time now.

  • Doctors for Justice in LTC

    Ontario’s long-term care sector is in a Grave Humanitarian Crisis

    Originally published: Socialist Project on January 29, 2021 by Doctors for Justice in LTC (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Jan 30, 2021)

    We are a group of physicians, researchers, and advocates who have come together to express our grave concern for the safety and well-being of Ontarians who reside and work in long-term care (LTC) homes. We call upon the Ontario government to immediately end the violations of peoples’ human rights and control the spread of COVID-19 in LTC. Action is needed today.

  • Poor lives matter, but less

    Poor lives matter, but less

    Originally published: JOMO on January 25, 2021 by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (more by JOMO)  | (Posted Jan 28, 2021)

    Agencies, funds, programmes and others lobby and fight for attention by showcasing their own policy agendas, ostensible achievements and potential. Many believe that the more indicators they get endorsed by the ‘international community’, the more financial support they can expect to secure.

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