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State Commissioner fires teacher for supporting BLM
Richard Corcoran, state commissioner of education in Florida, announced that he fired Amy Donofrio, a teacher in Duval County, because she supported #BlackLivesMatter.
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The communal cooking pot
In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis
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A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about U.S. empire–then refused to let me say it
A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to discuss. With the piece ready to go live, everything went horribly wrong.
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bneGREEN: Russia’s weather goes crazy
Russia’s weather has gone crazy. There is currently a heatwave inside the Arctic Circle where the coast is hotter than Mediterranean beaches.
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Time for a new Toolbox
Review of Snowden’s ToolBox: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
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Caste, class and India’s Covid catastrophe
COVID-19 patients dying on the streets gasping for oxygen. Hundreds of wailing, desperate folks searching for hospital beds to access treatment. Even the dead denied dignified funerals, their bodies dumped unceremoniously in the rivers of India.
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Nicaragua’s inspiring response to COVID-19
Little attention has been paid internationally to how the Central American country has managed to keep COVID-19 cases and fatalities low even under a devastating campaign of U.S. sanctions
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It’s all protest music: Bob Dylan at 80
Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance. In the cities and communities, women have fought for clean water, air, and land for their families to flourish.
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NATO’s war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe
NATO’s war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe
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Fighting anti-trans legislation takes a toll on Texas kids and families
A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth.
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Viral video of posh High School sparks heated debate on privilege
After an alumnus of an elite Beijing high school made a video showing off its pristine facilities and supposedly laid-back pace, many online demanded that she and her ilk stop rubbing their privilege in others’ faces.
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COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are going through nine circles of hell
Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.
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Karl Marx: March ye workers, and the World shall be free!
Exactly 203 years ago, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 1818 to a family of converted Christians belonging to the line of Jewish Rabbis which ended with Moses Lwow, Trier Rabbi from 1764 to 1788.
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Israel/Palestine coverage presents false equivalency between occupied and occupier
Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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Facebook, social media giants admit to silencing Palestinian voices online
Social media companies including Facebook have admitted to MintPress that pro-Palestinian posts were removed, blaming “technical bugs” and “spam filters.”
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As China pursues a green future, Bitcoin miners feel the squeeze
Chinese cryptocurrency businesses mine two-thirds of all Bitcoin. But for how long will they remain welcome in the country?
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Progressive forces win majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Convention
Independent and progressive candidates won more than a two-thirds majority in the Constitutional Convention, a body responsible for writing Chile’s new constitution.
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BAR Book Forum: Stefanie K. Dunning’s “Black to Nature”
The author explores various social, political, and cultural sites that explore and highlight the Black pastoral experience.
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Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today
This two-part long read is an extract from a chapter in a forthcoming book Fanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth (edited by Nigel Gibson, Daraja Press 2021).
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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift.