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  • November Elections and the Art of Voter Suppression

    November elections and the art of voter suppression

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on October 15, 2018 by Michael Latner (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2018)

    Voting rights violations are emerging across several states with less than a month before the conclusion of midterm elections in the United States.

  • Confronting Climate Change in a Deeply Unequal World

    Confronting Climate Change in a deeply unequal world

    Originally published: Inequality on October 11, 2018 by Sam Pizzigati (more by Inequality)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2018)

    The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.

  • Brazil- David Duke Announces His Support for Bolsonaro | Photo- wikicommons

    David Duke announces support for Jair Bolsonaro

    Originally published: teleSUR English on October 16, 2018 (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2018)

    The former Klu Klux Klan leader said Bolsonaro “sounds like one of us.”

  • Socialism - The Best Economic System? - Gaias Homes

    Confronting imperialism means winning back the power to imagine alternatives

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 15, 2018 by Daniel Whittall (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2018)

    Vijay Prashad talks to Daniel Whittall about socialism, anti-imperialism and the new global research network Tricontinental.

  • Plastaic - Plastic Only © Mike Gifford | Flickr

    Plastics and fossil fuels

    Originally published: Public Seminar on October 13, 2018 by Simon Pirani (more by Public Seminar)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2018)

    Follow the History of Technological Systems.

  • [Book Analysis] Marx & the Earth- An Anti-Critique

    Marx & the Earth: An Anti-Critique

    Originally published: Medium on October 2, 2018 by David Faber (more by Medium)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2018)

    If there is one thing from which Green thinking and practice suffers, it is the lack of an over-arching historical and socioeconomic conceptualisation of the dynamics making for the trashing of the environment as habit for humans and other creatures.

  • THE COLOR OF ECONOMIC ANXIETY

    The color of economic anxiety

    Originally published: Current Affairs on October 3, 2018 by Maliaika Jabali (more by Current Affairs)  | (Posted Oct 15, 2018)

    Is the collapse of Democratic fortunes due to economic anxiety? Of course. Just ask black Milwaukeeans.

  • Steve Bannon

    Future of western democracy being played out in Brazil

    Originally published: Consortium News on October 8, 2018 by Pepe Escobar (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Oct 13, 2018)

    Geopolitical and global economic reverberations will be immense. The Brazilian dilemma illuminates all the contradictions surrounding the Right populist offensive across the West, juxtaposed to the inexorable collapse of the Left. The stakes could not be higher.

  • Flooding of low-lying areas in the Netherlands in 2015

    Court upholds ruling that Dutch government must drastically cut greenhouse gases

    Originally published: Morning Star on October 9, 2018 by Ben Cowles (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Oct 13, 2018)

    A Dutch appeals court erupted into cheers today as it upheld a 2015 ruling ordering the government to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 per cent by 2020.

  • A peace train in Morocco teaches Youth to become advocates for peace and tolerance

    Eds.

    A peace train in Morocco teaches Youth to become advocates for peace and tolerance.

  • Marx and the Earth

    Originally published: Swampside Chats on October 11, 2018 (more by Swampside Chats)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2018)

    In the latest installment of our “Not One Step Back!” reading series, we take a listener recommendation and look at the introduction to “Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique” by John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett.

  • Black Lives Matter activists hail ‘historic’ verdict as killer of Laquan McDonald convicted of murder

    Originally published: Morning Star on October 7, 2018 by Ben Chacko (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2018)

    “In Chicago instead of funding healthcare, the things we need, we have been divested from. And that’s part of a neoliberal project that’s been hegemonic since the 1970s… capitalism sets the conditions for everything that’s happened.”

  • “In the first round, Bolsonaro was hiding. Now it’s only two candidates now, so it will become clear that there are two [opposing] projects” : Rafael Stedile

    Stedile on Brazil elections

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on October 9, 2018 by João Pedro Stedile (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2018)

    MST leader on the presidential race between Workers’ Party’s Fernando Haddad and far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party is campaigning to widen his base of support for the second round of votes. | Photo- EFE

    Brazil: left unites in support of Haddad as candidate works to woo voters

    Originally published: teleSUR English on October 10, 2018 (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2018)

    The Democratic Labor Party, which got 12.5 percent of the vote, confirmed its support for Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad.

  • Victory in our Minnesota Valve Turner case!

    Victory for Valve Turners in Minnesota!

    Originally published: Civil Liberties Defense Center on October 9, 2018 by Erin Grady (more by Civil Liberties Defense Center)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2018)

    We are pleased to announce a victory in our Minnesota Valve Turner case! This trial was a rollercoaster with many twists and turns, but all three defendants were acquitted of their charges this morning in court. They were acquitted, not on the necessity defense, but because the prosecution could not meet the burden of proof that they had committed a crime.

  • The Coming Military Vision Of State Censorship

    The coming military vision of state censorship

    Originally published: True Publica on October 8, 2018 (more by True Publica)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2018)

    A key meeting of cabinet members from the U.S.-led Five Eyes (UK, U.S., Aus, Can, NZ) global spying network was held in Australia in late August, which went totally unreported by the mainstream media, mainly because Britain’s representative used the cloak of Brexit to disguise it, ironically via social media.

  • A man holds a giant portrait of Chavez during a rally in Caracas. (AP)

    Where is socialism in Maduro’s economic recovery plan?

    Eds.

    Commune activist Gerardo Rojas remembers Chavez’s proposals for the construction of socialism and uses them to analyze the government’s current attempts to revitalize the economy.

  • The IPCC Gets Real about the 1.5°C Target

    The IPCC gets real about the 1.5°C target

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on October 8, 2018 by Peter Frumhoff (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2018)

    The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), provides a stark profile of the disruptive climate futures we face with rising temperatures and the ‘rapid and far-reaching’ transitions across major sectors of the global economy that are now needed if warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

  • The author © Steve Peterson | Design concept- Zachary V. Sunderman

    Courts, Kavanaugh, and constitutional hardball

    Originally published: Public Seminar on October 8, 2018 by Jeffrey Isaac (more by Public Seminar)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2018)

    On November 22, 1895 Eugene V. Debs stepped outside of the Woodstock Jail in Chicago, where he had been imprisoned for six months. Debs, the President of the American Railway Union, had been one of the leaders of the Pullman Strike of 1894, considered by many to be the first major national strike in American labor history.

  • The power of collective joy

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 1, 2018 by Sam Swann (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2018)

    In a world of isolation and a left which tends towards despondency, collective joy is our weapon against neoliberalism. Sam Swann reflects on The World Transformed 2018

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