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  • 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.

  • An elderly Afghan man at an International Red Cross distribution camp in Mazar-i-Sharif, where food was being provided by the UN World Food Programme. 01/12/2001. Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.

    ‘Thank you for hearing our Afghan pain’

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on February 12, 2022 by Kathy Kelly (more by Antiwar.com) (Posted Feb 14, 2022)

    People in the United States must recognize the suffering their country continues inflicting in Afghanistan.

  • Money U.S. Afghan

    When cruelty is the point – U.S. decides to kill more Afghan people

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on February 11, 2022 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Feb 14, 2022)

    Last summer, after decades of killing Afghans in Afghanistan, the U.S. government decides to move its occupation forces out of that country.

  • quality of life. photo: Ramón Frontera Nieves

    Large protest of teachers hit the streets of San Juan

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 9, 2022 by Ramón Frontera Nieves (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Feb 14, 2022)

    The discontent comes just weeks after a federal judge in the U.S. approved a restructuring plan to repay creditors at a discounted rate. Even at that the creditors are first in line to be paid over public workers.c

  • Puerto Rico's teachers have risen up against austerity policies. Photo: Twitter - Luis de Jesús

    Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 10. 2022 by Claridad Puerto Rico (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions.

  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, along with Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), speaking about the America COMPETES Act in the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4. The Act continues the United States' policy of militarism first and poor and working-class people last. (DREW ANGERER/GETTY)

    The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the “America COMPETES Act” passed in House of Representatives

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on February 7, 2022 by Black Alliance for Peace (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    On Friday evening, February 4th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022 (H.R. 4521). The stated intent of the legislation is to strengthen “America’s national and economic security and the financial security of families, and advance our leadership in the world.”

  • Kaan Kangal, Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 213 pages, $59.99, paperback.

    ‘Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature’, by: Kaan Kangal

    Originally published: Midwestern Marx on February 8, 2022 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Midwestern Marx)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    Friedrich Engels’ Dialectics of Nature has been arguably the most polemic ‘book’ within the corpus of classical Marxist literature.

  • US vs. China in Laos

    US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, two approaches, one obvious difference

    Originally published: NEO (New Eastern Outlook) on February 4, 2022 by Brian Berletic (more by NEO (New Eastern Outlook))  | (Posted Feb 13, 2022)

    The United States has elected to lock itself in a zero-sum conflict with China, attempting to stop China’s inevitable rise as the world’s largest, most powerful economy and thus nation.

  • Capitalism

    Capitalism: great for the rich, shit for the poor

    Originally published: Red Flag on February 6, 2022 by Red Flag (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Feb 12, 2022)

    Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history.

  • Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Women Who Fight, 2020.

    The Left has culture, but the World still belongs to the banks: The Sixth Newsletter (2022)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on February 10, 2022 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  | (Posted Feb 12, 2022)

    Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. ‘[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing’, Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). ‘There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere’. Béjar speaks […]

  • Ant

    “The Last Refuge of Scoundrels”

    Originally published: Science for the People on February 1, 2022 by Stacy Farina and Matthew Gibbons (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2022)

    New Evidence of E. O. Wilson’s Intimacy with Scientific Racism

  • The New York Times

    A week has passed—and still not a single word in the ‘NYTimes’ about Amnesty International’s landmark report that found Israel practices ‘apartheid’

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on February 8, 2022 by James North (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2022)

    The New York Times’s failure to report on the Amnesty International report accusing Israel of apartheid is no oversight — it is a deliberate effort to suppress the news.

  • Beijing 2022 and China’s Challenge to Sports Imperialism

    Beijing 2022 and China’s challenge to sports imperialism

    Originally published: Qiao Collective on February , 2022 by Charles Xu (more by Qiao Collective)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2022)

    In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement’s historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China’s fraught relationship with international sports.

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