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  • Over one million Bolivians mobilized in support of President Luis Arce’s government on August 25 in the face of attempts by far-right opposition sectors in Santa Cruz to destabilize the national government using the Population and Housing Census as pretext. (Photo: Luis Arce/Twitter)

    Bolivian president issues warning about destabilization attempts

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on November 4, 2022 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    The far-right opposition in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department has been seeking to destabilize the socialist government of President Luis Arce using the Population and Housing Census as pretext.

  • The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I

    The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on November 4, 2022 by Hugo Turner (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    Once believed to be an anachronistic Cold War relic, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) has emerged as the most successful post-war fascist group.

  • The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

    UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 5, 20222022 by The Guardian (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    António Guterres claims that the difference between the rich world and less developed nations is the main obstacle to discuss in the COP27 discussions.

  • MEMBERS OF THE LIONS’ DEN HOLD THEIR WEAPONS NEXT TO A FLAG FLYING THE LIONS’ DEN LOGO DURING A MEMORIAL SERVICE OF MOHAMMED AL-AZIZI AND ABDUL RAHMAN SOBH WHO WERE KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES, IN THE WEST BANK CITY OF NABLUS ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2022. (PHOTO: SHADI JARAR’AH/ APA IMAGES)

    The story of the Lions’ Den

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on NOVEMBER 4, 2022 by MARIAM BARGHOUTI AND YUMNA PATEL (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    The Lions’ Den was relatively unknown outside of Nablus until a few months ago but today they have gained hero-like status across Palestine — for leading a revival of armed resistance against Israeli colonialism. This is their story.

  • ‘Bot armies’ are on the march in the Ukraine-Russia war, with automated ‘bot’ accounts sending up to 80% of tweets in the study sample size of over 5-million tweets, with anti-Russia accounts comprising 90.2% of all accounts. Here, shelves of confiscated GSM gateways, containing hundreds of sim cards using the mobile network to create thousands of fake bot accounts to distribute millions of fake tweets. (Photo: Ukraine Security Service, SBU)

    Massive anti-Russian ‘Bot army’ exposed by Australian researchers

    Originally published: Declassified Australia on November 3, 2022 by Peter Cronau (more by Declassified Australia) (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.

  • South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change (SAPACC)

    Declare a climate emergency: South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 3, 2022 by Countercurrents Staff (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 06, 2022)

    The following statement is issued by the South Asian People’s Action on Climate Change (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of individuals and organizations from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka who are deeply concerned about the climate crisis.

  • A shot from the 1984 film Threads (Credit: BBC Nine Network)

    The apocalypse in popular culture

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on October 31, 2022 by Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2022)

    From plagues and zombies to nukes, asteroids and tidal waves, Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska assess how apocalyptic fiction reflects and shapes the anxieties of our age.

  • The real impediments to mitigating global racism

    The real impediments to mitigating global racism

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 2, 2022 by Hannah Hussain (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2022)

    In the words of Nada Al-Nashif, Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the actual barometer for success must be positive change in the lived experiences of people. This is why the reluctance of nations still in denial over racial injustice at home to earnestly reckon with the legacies of slavery and colonialism deserves to be called out in full.

  • Hiroshima Cenotaph and Pond of Peace

    Biden administration again plants false nuclear scare stories

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on November 2, 2022 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Nov 04, 2022)

    Today the Washington Post as well as the New York Times are back fear mongering about alleged threats which Russia has never made. Both stories are based on ‘administration officials’ meaning that the Biden administration has planted these stories.

  • Benito Mussolini marching into Rome.

    Lessons from the rise of Mussolini, 100 years on

    Originally published: Red Flag on October 28, 2022 by Luca Tavan (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2022)

    One hundred years ago, in October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s paramilitary blackshirts marched on the Italian capital to demand the dissolution of the government of Prime Minister Luigi Facta.

  • Intake pipe for Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake, New York (Photo by Abi Buddington).

    Boom and bust: The fight over Bitcoin mining in New York State

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth by Owen Marshall (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2022)

    Seneca Lake’s picturesque setting belies its long history of conquest and extraction.

  • Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, speaks at a gathering of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in a Winnipeg Delta Hotel, on October 28, 2022. Image Credit: CBC/Google Images

    Canada prepares war bonds for Nazi-infested Ukrainian government

    Originally published: The Canada Files on October 31, 2022 by Daniel Xie (more by The Canada Files)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2022)

    During the Second World War, the Canadian government appealed for Canadians to buy war bonds to fight fascism in Europe.

  • The public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)

    A failure to review America’s nuclear posture

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 28, 2022 by Joe Cirincione (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    President Joe Biden has passed on his best chance to operationalize his stated goal of reducing the role in US security policy of America’s more than 5,400 nuclear weapons with the public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).

  • HERMAN DALY

    Herman Daly: An economist for eco-social activists

    Originally published: Foreign Policy in Focus on May 23, 2022 by Jack Santa Barbara (more by Foreign Policy in Focus) (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    A new book explains how an economist, in challenging the orthodoxy, has helped activists change the world.

  • Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh

    Scotland passes emergency rent freeze and eviction ban laws

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 28, 2022 by Matt Trinder (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Act allows ministers to temporarily freeze rent increases for private and social tenants and for student accommodation.

  • Auditorio Celso Furtado. President-Elect Lula da Silva Surrounded by Supporters at Rally [Source: photo by Lauren Smith]

    Lula da Silva Wins Brazilian Presidency

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 31, 2022 by Lauren Smith (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    Right-winger Jair Bolsonaro’s claims of election fraud reduced to sour grapes as Brazil’s bulletproof voting process shames the United States’ swiss-cheese system

  • Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar on the front line near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, September 26, 2022. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Twitter.

    As Ukraine war escalates, the climate movement goes AWOL

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on October 28, 2022 by Dimitri Lascaris (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2022)

    Lascaris: This is no time to prioritize political expediency and serenity over the reputational perils of anti-war activism.

  • A demonstrator's mask reads "Stop Evictions Save Lives" during a protest in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    Real Estate industry spends big to crush LA “mansion tax”

    Originally published: The Lever on October 28, 2022 by Aditi Ramaswami (more by The Lever)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2022)

    Corporate real estate interests have come out in full force to try and defeat a ballot measure to hike taxes on multimillion-dollar property sales.

  • Dead US senator John McCain went to Ukraine and stood on stage with neo-Nazi Oleh Tyahnybok back in 2013.

    Liberal Democracy: The Bedfellow of fascism

    Originally published: Hood Communist on October 27, 2022 by Erica Caines (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2022)

    Antifascism, as a politic and concept, has grown more appealing in the last 6 years because of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism domestically and globally rooted in patriarchy and ongoing (settler) colonialism.

  • CBS (9/22/22) reported that Puerto Rico “wants to be less reliant on a government that has consistently failed them.”

    Mainland media fail to ask why Puerto Rico requires ‘resilience’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 27, 2022 by James Baratta (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Oct 31, 2022)

    The people of Puerto Rico woke up on the morning of September 19 only to relive a nightmare. Two days before Hurricane Maria’s five-year anniversary, on September 18, Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island’s southwest coast. The storm caused widespread flooding, landslides and power outages. At least 16 people have died as a result.

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