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  • Nord Stream 2

    U.S. prefers frozen Germany over one not aiding Ukraine: Seymour Hersh

    Originally published: U.S. prefers frozen Germany over one not aiding Ukraine: Seymour Hersh on February 15, 2023 by Berliner Zeitung (more by U.S. prefers frozen Germany over one not aiding Ukraine: Seymour Hersh) (Posted Jun 08, 2023)

    American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh underlines that the United States would have rathered seen Germany frozen over than see it not supporting Ukraine in the war.

  • Weapons cargo bound for Ukraine is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III during a security assistance mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 19, 2022. The Department of Defense is providing Ukraine with critical capabilities to defend against Russian aggression under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cydney Lee)

    How weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate

    Originally published: Responsible Statecraft on June 1, 2023 by Ben Freeman (more by Responsible Statecraft) (Posted Jun 08, 2023)

    ‘Experts’ from defense industry funded think tanks are flooding the media, pushing for more arms without disclosing their benefactors.

  • Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni / LGBTQ+

    LGBTQ+ Ugandans face deadly threat as “Anti-Homosexuality Act” signed into law

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 5, 2023 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2023)

    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.

  • The Supreme Court has ruled against Teamsters Local 174, the union whose workers were sued by their employer, Glacier Northwest, for allegedly causing intentional damage to the company's cement trucks during a strike. | Background photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons / Collage by People's World

    In a historic step backwards, the U.S. limits the right to strike

    Originally published: People's World on June 2, 2023 by Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK

  • Rescuers attempt to remove body of a victim from passenger train that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. [AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool]

    Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on June 5, 2023 by Arun Kumar and Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.

  • NYPA: The Return of A New Deal Public Utility

    A Public Power victory in New York State

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on June 6, 2023 by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies.

  • Five years behind bars for five activists

    India: Five years behind bars for five activists, neither tried nor even charged

    Originally published: Countercurrents on June 6, 2023 by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2023)

    Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice!

  • Nearly one thousand Seattle Amazon workers walk off the job

    Nearly one thousand Seattle Amazon workers walk off the job

    Originally published: Liberation News on June 2, 2023 by Liberation Staff (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2023)

    On May 31, nearly one thousand Amazon workers walked off the job in Seattle to meet at the company headquarters and speak out against a range of company policies.

  • Debt ceiling hypocrisy

    Debt ceiling hypocrisy: U.S. boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor

    Originally published: Geopolitical Economy Report on June 2, 2023 (more by Geopolitical Economy Report)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2023)

    U.S. politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare.

  • Seena Mavaddat

    Lie, cheat, and steal: The CIA’s disastrous scientific legacy

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Owen Marshall (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2023)

    Under the leadership of noted black site torture overseer Gina Haspel, it has also adopted a tech start-up model via its new “CIA Labs,” which entices would-be innovators with lucrative patent opportunities.

  • https://countercurrents.org/2023/06/anti-fascists-sent-to-five-years-prison-in-germany/

    Protests in Germany after anti-fascists sent to five years in prison

    Originally published: Countercurrents on June 4, 2023 by Harsh Thakor (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2023)

    Protests erupted across Germany after  the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.

  • Walter Rodney

    TRANSCRIPT: The roots and consequences of African underdevelopment, Walter Rodney, 1979

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 31, 2023 by Editors, The Black Agenda Review (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2023)

    In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.

  • Replying on ecology and entropy

    Replying on ecology and entropy

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on May 31, 2023 by Stuart Jordan (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Jun 05, 2023)

    Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672

  • Dutch professor Kees van der Pijl. D. R.

    Professor Kees van der Pijl: “NATO and the EU will dissolve!”

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 2, 2023 by Mohsen Abdelmoumen (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 05, 2023)

    How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries?

  • Felton Davis (Flickr), licensed under 'creative commons': https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

    Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 1, 2023 by Zak Borzovoy (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2023)

    Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.

  • If a Ukrainian can afford to pay $5,000 a month, he can simply buy a deferment each time and go on with his usual life.

    Class and nation in the conflict in Ukraine

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 2, 2023 by Dmitri Kovalevich (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2023)

    There are many common interests that can bring Russian and Ukrainian soldiers together in fighting for a more just and equal world.

  • Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity

    World Health Assembly: The world should be more like Cuba

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on May 23, 2023 by Alejandra Garcia (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Jun 03, 2023)

    The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.

  • Buybacks!

    Stop stock buybacks!

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on May/June 2023 by Ericka Wills (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Jun 02, 2023)

    On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

  • Jigyasa Mishra

    Science and imperialism: Scientists as workers for peace

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 3, Killing in the Name Of by Archishman Raju (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2023)

    Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom.

  • The Perfect Storm That Created the Housing Crisis

    The perfect storm that created the housing crisis

    Originally published: CityWatch Los Angeles on May 25, 2023 by Dick Platkin (more by CityWatch Los Angeles)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2023)

    The United States is in the midst of a severe housing crisis that is of its own making. This crisis results from several generations of awful housing policies, some of which date back a half century to the Nixon Administration (1968-1973). 

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