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F*ck Big Book
The ‘Big Five’ publishing houses wield enormous global power, controlling 80% of the English-language trade publishing market.
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Trump’s tariffs will not restore American manufacturing
The decline in manufacturing jobs is common to most developed economies and is not unique to the U.S. Further, Donald Trump is nothing if not delusional, and his tariffs will only damage both the U.S. economy and others as well.
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NYC real estate expo promoting sale of ‘stolen land’ in Palestine descends into violence
Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.
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‘They’re trying to make us afraid’: Israel police targets Palestinian bookstores in Jerusalem
The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.
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Resisting the right-wing vibe shift
The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.
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A prayer for Leonard Peltier
Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.
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Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements
“Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”
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Disappearing climate science
It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.
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AI for the people? How China’s AI development challenges U.S. big tech
The following text is based on a talk given by Gary Wilson at the “Deep Seek and the Challenge to U.S. Technological Hegemony” webinar on Feb. 16, hosted by the Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group.
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Why Washington’s global dominance is hanging by a thread
Trump’s aggression does not reflect strength. He is desperately trying to slow the decline of U.S. empire.
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Corporate media bosses bow to Trump demands
The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press.
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Curtis Yarvin is among the crazed pseudo-Fascist thinkers influencing J.D. Vance
Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.
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Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”
One finds that in looking at Marxist theory, at its relevance to race, looking at the relevance of Marxist theory to national emancipation, we come up with a very important paradox.
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Community drives out Nazis in Ohio
On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.
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NYT prints lie – Adds link which debunks it
As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.
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How climate denial is fueling a U.S. homeowners insurance crisis and risking a 2008-style financial meltdown
New research reveals that rising insurance costs, reckless building, regulatory inaction, and big banks’ fossil fuel investments are driving a dangerous cycle that jeopardizes homeowners—and financial stability for everyone.
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PEN America condemns Education Department’s threat to defund schools over DEI programs
“We urge educational leaders not to be cowed by the threats of government officials whose erroneous interpretations of the Constitution would undermine the freedom to learn.” – PEN America
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“The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism” – book review
Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.
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122 years of U.S. imperialism in Guantánamo: From torture to migrant detention
Donald Trump’s expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.
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Trump to Gaza: “We will replace you”
The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.