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  • Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis

    Isabel Wilkerson’s Book “Caste” and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 23, 2020 by Anthony Monteiro (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Sep 25, 2020)

    Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism.

  • The Dying Planet

    The Dying Planet Report 2020

    Originally published: Countercurrents on September 23, 2020 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Sep 24, 2020)

    The report, released September 10th, describes how the over-exploitation of ecological resources by humanity from 1970 to 2016 has contributed to a 68% plunge in wild vertebrate populations, inclusive of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish.

  • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the patrols alongside Guyana’s newly installed conservative president, Irfaan Ali. (Resumen Latinoamericano)

    U.S. & Guyana unveil joint Military patrols on oil-rich Venezuela border

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    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo completed a whirlwind tour of Surinam, Guyana, Brazil and Colombia to boost anti-Venezuela efforts.

  • Digital destruction

    Big Data and the science of manipulating the masses

    Originally published: Granma English on September 17, 2020 by Raúl Antonio Capote (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2020)

    With the advance of communications technology, the information society and internet, this knowledge has become so sophisticated that its impact is difficult to estimate.

  • American flag made in China

    Senate Democrats want $350 billion to prepare for war with China

    Originally published: Liberation News on September 17, 2020 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2020)

    Democrats in the Senate announced September 17 a massive spending bill aimed at stepping up U.S. hostility towards China to the tune of $350 billion.

  • The towers of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Probst | AP

    Deutsche Bank money laundering scandal could create greatest economic crisis in history

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 21, 2020 by Raul Diego (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2020)

    The leak of the FinCEN Files over the weekend has rocked global markets and augurs a financial crisis of epic proportions as Deutsche Bank hovers over the precipice.

  • A hair stylist works inside her shop in Stockholm, Sweden. Andres Kudacki | AP file photo

    No socialist paradise: Sweden’s COVID-19 response is nothing to envy

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 18, 2020 by Eleanor Goldfield (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2020)

    Eleanor Goldfield reports from Stockholm on how COVID-19 has laid bare the U..S-style capitalist reality creeping into Sweden’s already struggling socialized programs.

  • Jairus Banaji A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

    Review of Jairus Banaji A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on September 16, 2020 by Morteza Samanpour (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2020)

    For Jairus Banaji, theory and history are tightly interwoven: without history, theory ends up ‘bad abstraction’; without theory, the intelligibility of history is doomed to fail.

  • Privatizing the Common Good: The 21st-Century Enclosures Are Here

    Privatizing the Common Good: The 21st-Century Enclosures Are Here

    Originally published: Lit Hub on September 16, 2020 by Ashley Dawson (more by Lit Hub)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2020)

    Ashley Dawson on the Endless Commoditizing of American Energy

  • Venezuela flag at movement

    A tribute for her endless pursuit of Democracy

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on September 19, 2020 by Peter Koenig (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Sep 22, 2020)

    Venezuela is again the shining light of Democracy.

  • In Bolivia, Washington Has Replicated Past Fascist Horrors

    In Bolivia, Washington has replicated past fascist horrors

    Originally published: Internationalism 360 on September 17, 2020 by Rainer Shea (more by Internationalism 360) (Posted Sep 21, 2020)

    The campaigns from imperialist propaganda operatives to brand Bolivia’s coup regime as some sort of example of progressive governance, or as in any way superior to the Morales government on human rights, have been pure smoke and mirrors.

  • The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums and Why We Need to Talk About It

    Review of Alice Proctor The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums and Why We Need to Talk About It

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on September 18, 2020 by Joshua John Headington (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Sep 21, 2020)

    Shortly before reopening their doors on 27 August 2020, the British Museum removed a bust of its slave-owning founding father, Sir Hans Sloane, from a pedestal to a glass cabinet.

  • Chief Howilhkat, Freda Huson, and her sister Chief Geltiy, Brenda Michell, stand in ceremony while she waits for police to enforce Coastal GasLink’s injunction at Unist’ot’en Healing Centre near Houston, B.C. on Saturday, February 8, 2020. (Amber Bracken)

    All eyes on Wet’suwet’en

    Originally published: Red Pepper on September 10, 2020 by Suzanne Dhaliwal (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2020)

    Suzanne Dhaliwal, in collaboration with Indigenous Climate Action, explains how the struggle to end Canada’s colonial violence is continuing in the face of fossil fuel extractivism.

  • Portland police take control of the streets in Portland, Oregon on September 5, 2020. Photo: Paula Bronstein/AP

    A progressive prosecutor faces off with Portland’s aggressive police

    Originally published: The Intercept on September 16, 2020 by Alice Speri (more by The Intercept)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2020)

    Portland’s new district attorney said he wouldn’t prosecute most protesters. Police kept arresting them anyway.

  • Researchers, academics and Andean families are working on strategies to recampesinize food choices. Photo: Ministry of People’s Power for Science and Technology

    The strategic aspects of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 14, 2020 by Clara Sánchez (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Sep 17, 2020)

    The Great AgroVenezuela Mission was born on January 25, 2011 under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez, and was launched from the Agricultural Social Property Unit “La Productora” in the municipality of Ospino in the state of Portuguesa, with the aim of promoting food security and sovereignty in the country.

  • Four centuries of infamy

    Four centuries of infamy

    Originally published: Granma on September 10, 2020 by Pedro de la Hoz (more by Granma)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2020)

    Before Europeans arrived in America, Portuguese seafarers snatched the first Africans from their homelands to be sold and exploited in the Iberian Peninsula.

  • Ernst Bloch

    1978: Ernest Mandel – We must dream. Anticipation and hope as categories of historical materialism

    Originally published: IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education) on September 9, 2020 by Ernest Mandel (more by IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education)) (Posted Sep 16, 2020)

    This text was the contribution of Ernest Mandel to a 1978 commemorative colloquium for the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) and was first published in 1980.

  • Against Advertising

    Against advertising

    Originally published: Rebel News on September 15, 2020 by John Molyneux (more by Rebel News)  | (Posted Sep 16, 2020)

    Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. John Molyneux argues that as a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence.

  • Qalandia Checkpoint, the biggest crossing in Jerusalem municipality from one side of the separation wall to the other. Photo courtesy of the Socialistische Partij, Netherlands/Flickr.

    CBC doubles down on erasing Palestine

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 14, 2020 by Marion Kawas (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Sep 16, 2020)

    Activists are determined to hold the broadcaster to account for minimizing Palestine’s national identity

  • Sub-Saharan Africa is among the regions facing the largest number of ecological threats. Image: Oxfam East Africa/Flickr

    Greta Thunberg champions the plight of climate refugees

    Eds.

    “Climate crisis could displace 1.2 billion people by 2050,” says Greta Thunberg

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