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  • NATO heads of state at the alliance’s summit in Brussels

    What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?

    Originally published: Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation on June 17, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    Joe Biden took part in several key international meetings over the last week covering a wide range of issues but with one key goal in mind: intensify the new Cold War with China and construct a global front towards this end.

  • Dora Maria Tellez (left) and Hugo Torres(right) campaigning in 2008 for US government supported right wing banker Eduardo Montealegre, candidate of ex-President Arnoldo Aleman's right wing PLC party | Photo: Tortilla con Sal

    Nicaragua’s political opposition as organized crime

    Originally published: teleSUR English translation from Tortilla con Sal on June 17, 2021 by Stephen Sefton (more by teleSUR English translation from Tortilla con Sal)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    Despite numerous reports in international media to the contrary, none of the people arrested had been selected by any of Nicaragua’s political alliances or parties as possible candidates for the upcoming general election on November 7th this year.

  • Eldridge Cleaver with members of the Black Panther Party

    Lessons from Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party

    Originally published: Hood Communist on June 10, 2021 by Ahjamu Umi (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2021)

    “Revolutionary or Death” is the 2020 biography written about former Black Panther Party (BPP) Minister of Information Leroy “Eldridge” Cleaver.

  • Anti-NATO and anti-war protest in Brussels, on the day of the NATO summit in the city on June 14, 2021. Photo: PTB

    From G7 to NATO meetings, imperialist powers turn more aggressive towards China

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 15, 2021 by Anish R M (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    In both the crucial summits of global north nations, political leaders led by U.S. president Joe Biden, made sweeping and unsubstantiated charges against China.

  • Photo by the International Monetary Fund.

    The Techfare state: The ‘new’ face of neoliberal state regulation

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 15, 2021 by Ali Bhagat and Rachel Phillips (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    recent article in the New York Times takes aim at ‘How Big Tech Won the Pandemic’, highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion.

  • Walter Rodney Quote

    Walter Rodney’s death records to be amended and children’s books placed in schools

    Originally published: Demerara Waves on June 10, 2021 by Denis Chabrol (more by Demerara Waves)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.

  • French Citizens Convention on Climate Change

    For an ecosocialist transition that breaks from capitalism: Arguments and proposals

    Originally published: Global EcoSocialist Network Claude Calame on April 13, 2021 (more by Global EcoSocialist Network Claude Calame)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    The 149 proposals issued by the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate last June, with the goal of achieving at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990, manifestly belong to a thoroughly reformist approach.

  • View Stock/People Visual

    China fantasizes about a ‘low-desire’ life

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 15, 2021 by Cai Zongcheng (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    Tired of the urban grind, young Chinese are rejecting consumerism and decamping to the countryside. That’s not the same thing as fighting back.

  • Hallie Flanagan, Director of the FTP Flanagan on CBS Radio for the Federal Theatre of the Air, 1936. Courtesy, Wikipedia Commons.

    The WPA’s Federal Theatre: Creating jobs and creative achievement

    Originally published: National Jobs for all Network on June 10, 2021 by Sheila Collins and Trudy Goldberg (more by National Jobs for all Network) (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

    A brief but spectacular achievement, the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project (FTP) (1936-1939) provided jobs for some 13,000 destitute people at its height and created and produced 63,600 performances of 1,200 major theatrical works.

  • Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

    Remembering Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara on his 93rd birth anniversary

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on June 14, 2021 by Shubham Sharma and Rishav Sharma (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2021)

    ‘A man who acted as he thought best and who has been absolutely faithful to his convictions.’

  • Venezuelans queue to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in central Caracas. (Carolina Alcalde / VOA)

    Outrage as COVAX reports blocked vaccine payments, U.S. sanctions blamed

    Eds.

    Venezuela’s efforts at the Copa America football tournament have also been derailed after 15 players and staffers caught the virus, prompting calls for an investigation.

  • A mural of Salvador Allende in a street in Santiago de Chile, on the occasion of his birth centenary.

    Latin America: in a permanent state of coup

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on May 31, 2021 by Zósimo Camacho (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    In Latin America, coups d’état are always underway. When a government goes beyond being merely procedurally democratic and advances towards social justice, the always latent coup mechanisms are accelerated.

  • A photograph of Alamo Plaza from approximately 1910, showing the Hugo & Schmeltzer building attached to the Alamo church. ADINA EMILIA DE ZAVALA PAPERS, DI_10567, THE DOLPH BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    ‘Forget the Alamo’ unravels a Texas history made of myths, or rather, lies

    Originally published: Texas Observer on June 10, 2021 by Nic Yeager (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    Three Texan authors build on a long tradition of dissent from patriotic accounts of Texas history in a new book on the racism baked into our story of the Alamo.

  • An intern at work in Beijing, 2017. Duan Jingkun/People Visual)

    In workplace rights debate, who’s looking out for China’s interns?

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 10, 2021 by Xu Miao (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2021)

    Fueled by pandemic restrictions and a glut of qualified applicants, competition for internship slots is growing fiercer all the time.

  • Pedro Castillo of the left-wing Free Pery party won the second round of presidential elections held in Peru on June 6. Photo: José Cristobal / La Republica

    Pedro Castillo wins presidential elections in Peru, Keiko Fujimori rejects the results

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 10, 2021 by Tanya Wadha (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 14, 2021)

    With 99.998% of the ballots counted, left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo has secured 50.204% of the votes, while far-right Keiko Fujimori has obtained 49.796% of the votes. Yesterday, Fujimori requested the election authorities to annul the results from 802 polling stations nationwide

  • The Great “Awokening” and Ruling Class Uses for Racial Grievance Discourse

    The great “awokening” and ruling class uses for racial grievance discourse

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 9, 2021 by Pascal Robert (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jun 14, 2021)

    The Black political class is wedded to the centrist Democrats for its “fatback and biscuits” patronage.

  • Infamous Israeli home thief is federally charged Long Island, NY financial fraudster

    Infamous Israeli home thief is federally charged Long Island, NY financial fraudster

    Originally published: The Raza Report on June 8, 2021 by Hamzah Raza (more by The Raza Report) (Posted Jun 14, 2021)

    Over the past few weeks, a video has gone viral of a man named Yaakov Fauci, in a New York accent, asserting to a Palestinian woman whose house that he has forcibly taken, “If I don’t steal it, someone else is going to steal it.”

  • Vaccine equity campaigners posing as the leaders of G7 nations tussle over a giant mock syringe on June 11, 2021 near Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. (Photo: Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

    ‘Little more than a PR gimmick’: Critics say G7 vaccine donation pledges won’t cut it

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 11, 2021 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2021)

    Public health campaigners estimate that promised donations from rich countries would be enough to cover just 11% of the world’s unvaccinated population.

  • The 16 arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case. Photo: The Wire

    ‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities

    Originally published: The Wire on June 12, 2021 (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2021)

    The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.

  • America 2020: A Nation in Turmoil. It is free on Kindle.

    The hell of the same: capitalism breaks down and homogenizes life, disconnects the past, present and future

    Originally published: Dissident Voice by John Stanton (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2021)

    Capitalism is the practice of exploitation of the self and others. The focus on Wall Street, Bezos/Musk or capitalism and its past history is ill placed.

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