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  • Haitian migrants - NBC News

    The capitalist imperative driving cruel and bipartisan U.S. migration policies

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 16, 2022 by Daniel Melo (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Feb 23, 2022)

    Capitalism’s need for labor is the determining factor in immigration policy. Its contradictions create a system that is consistently inhumane.

  • A typical shanty town (Photo: Resilience)

    To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns

    Originally published: China Environment News on February 20, 2022 by Ayesha Tandon (more by China Environment News) (Posted Feb 23, 2022)

    Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible.

  • A protest against Duterte’s drug war in 2019. Photo by Ryomaandres.

    Taking on the Philippine axis of evil

    Originally published: Tempest on February 8, 2022 by Ashley Smith (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Feb 21, 2022)

    I was initially pushed to try to run for president. I really did not want to, because I felt somebody younger and more vigorous should. I am 76! – Walden Bello

  • Where did the Dependency Approach Go?

    Where did the Dependency Approach go?

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on February 9, 2022 by Christopher Hope (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Feb 21, 2022)

    Capitalism, it seems, had been deemed too messy a concept to provide much use to researchers in explaining phenomena.

  • map

    Ukraine – Who is firing at whom and who is lying about it?

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 20, 2022 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 21, 2022)

    The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has an observer mission along the line of control between the government and rebel side in south east Ukraine.

  • Students at a Juliana v. US rally.

    Talking to your kid about climate change

    Originally published: Hothouse on February 17, 2022 by Michael Coren and Cadence Bambenek (more by Hothouse) (Posted Feb 20, 2022)

    Emotions are at the heart of the matter ❣️

  • Freedom for the five Cuban Political Prisoners

    Political prisoners in Cuba?

    Originally published: Granma English on February 16, 2022 by Michel E. Torres Corona (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2022)

    Can those prosecuted for acts of violence and recklessly endangering the public order, with no program, no proposals for positive change, be considered political prisoners?

  • Putin's State of the Union - The Greanville Post

    Truths and lies about pledges made to Russia

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on February 17, 2022 by Guy Mettan (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Feb 19, 2022)

    The information war surrounding tensions between NATO and Russia over Ukraine often leads to distortions of historical reality.

  • The Battle of Billings Bridge

    The Battle of Billings Bridge

    Originally published: The Breach on February 16, 2022 by James Hutt (more by The Breach)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2022)

    Ottawa residents’ blockade of the convoy is a model for confronting the extreme-right.

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during an event outside Union Station on June 16, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

    AOC warns failure to cancel student debt has ‘demoralized’ critical voters

    Originally published: Common Dreams on February 15, 2022 (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    “This really isn’t a conversation about providing relief to a small, niche group of people,” said the congresswoman. “It’s very much a keystone action politically.” –AOC

  • It’s Time for the Left to Embrace the Critical Race Theory Debate

    It’s time for the Left to embrace the Critical Race Theory debate

    Originally published: The Indypendent on February 14, 2022 by Linda Martín Alcoff (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    Pretending CRT isn’t real robs us of the chance to mount a strong defense.

  • Colombia is Bleeding to Death

    Colombia is bleeding to death

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 14, 2022 by Alejandra Garcia (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Feb 16, 2022)

    Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. In February, the panorama has been no different.

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

    Good news? The jobs reports for January, 2022

    Originally published: National Jobs for all Network on February 14, 2022 by Frank Stricker (more by National Jobs for all Network) (Posted Feb 16, 2022)

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) job report offered some surprises, especially in light of dire predictions about the Omicron crisis. At first glance the impact seemed slight.

  • Pro-choice protesters rallied in December as the Supreme Court began to hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that could potentially overturn Roe v Wade. Credit: Miki Jourdan, Flickr.

    The best offense is more clinic defense

    Originally published: Tempest on February 3, 2022 by Anonymous (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    An abortion provider discusses the tactic of clinic defense, and why it’s necessary to defend abortion rights.

  • ​Martin Heidegger

    The Nazis among us: Heidegger and the Hideous

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on February 10, 2022 by ​​Thomas Riggins (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    Martin Heidegger isn’t a philosopher that progressives are likely to consider worthwhile reading. After all, he was an anti-Semite, a follower of Hitler, and most hideous of all, someone who likened the mass extermination of human beings to the excesses of factory farming.

  • A Ukrainian serviceman patrols along a position at the front line with the eastern rebels not far from Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Fears have mounted of an escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have battled the rebels since 2014. Photo: AFP

    U.S. needs Ukraine crisis to harm European economy, and legitimize its military presence

    Originally published: Global Times on February 13, 2022 by Yang Sheng and Xu Keyue (more by Global Times)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    The Chinese embassy in Ukraine released a notice on its WeChat public account Friday to urge Chinese nationals in Ukraine to “pay close attention to” changes in the local situation, as the U.S. and several other Western countries asked their nationals “to evacuate immediately” amid so-called warnings of an imminent invasion by Russia.

  • The China-Laos Railway provides a major goods transport link for ASEAN countries and China. Photo shows an electric multiple unit (EMU) high speed passenger train as it crosses a major bridge over the Yuanjiang River in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The China-Laos Railway is a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

    ASEAN nations using Laos-China Railway for ‘green’, low-carbon freight

    Originally published: China Environment News on February 14, 2022 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer (km) electrified high-speed railway that runs between the capital Vientiane and the town of Boten on the Laos-China border.

  • ‘THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN TEXAS’ TAKES A DEEP LOOK AT OUR SORDID STATE HISTORY

    ‘The Mexican American Experience in Texas’ takes a deep look at our sordid State history

    Originally published: Texas Observer on February 11, 2022 by Martha Menchaca (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    Martha Menchaca’s new book examines events that have shaped the lives of so many in the Lone Star State.

  • man fishing in the Crocker Range of western Sabah by John C. Cannon.

    Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

    Originally published: Mongabay on February 10, 2022 by John C. Cannon (more by Mongabay)  | (Posted Feb 14, 2022)

    An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah.

  • Still from “Red Afro” in Anatoli Ulyanov’s Black Man in a Red Suit web-series.

    “My pink socialism became red as a wound”: Impossible interview from Ukraine

    Originally published: LeftEast on February 11, 2022 by Anatoli Ulyanov (more by LeftEast)  | (Posted Feb 14, 2022)

    In 2000s Ukraine, Anatoli Ulyanov co-made online media dedicated to art, culture, and politics, and became recognized for his provocative writing style.

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