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  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky

    How do we stop the neocons from starting another disaster in Ukraine

    Originally published: Scoop on December 15, 2021 by James W. Carden (more by Scoop) (Posted Dec 21, 2021)

    If anything, Washington’s neoconservatives have an unerring instinct for survival.

  • Property: Is it Theft? Is it Freedom or Is it Both? Merry Christmas!

    Property: Is it theft? Is it freedom or is it both? Merry Christmas!

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on December 9, 2021 by Jonah Raskin (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Dec 21, 2021)

    Not long after Thanksgiving this year, I went to San Francisco’s Japantown (“Jtown” to locals). Surrounded by commodities for sale and in a high rent district I was reminded of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous remark, “La propriété, c’est le vol!, which is usually translated as “Property is theft.”

  • [Source: axios.com]

    The two Michaels, Canada’s Kovrig and Spavor, caught red-handed spying against China and North Korea

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on December 15, 2021 by Jeff J. Brown (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

    Western Politicians and Media, However, Made It Seem Like They Were Innocent Victims of China’s Authoritarianism.

  • ‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong

    ‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 17, 2021 by Chris Knight, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

    Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.

  • Metabolic Rift, a reimagined version of the iconic experimental musical festival Berlin Atonal, is the Berlin underground culture that the world needs to see right now.

    The full story of Metabolic Rift: A new format of underground culture by Berlin Atonal [Part 1/2]

    Originally published: Tokion on December 16, 2021 by Kana Miyazawa (more by Tokion)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

    In 2020, we were forced to put our lives on pause. Countries were divided from one another; communication between people moved to the more diluted online space. The schedules of jet setters across the world became completely blank, and one German artist passionate about the environment went as far as to say they’d never fly again.

  • Storm devistation and destruction

    Sustainable technology isn’t enough to save us

    Originally published: Il manifesto on December 15, 2021 by Guido Viale (more by Il manifesto)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

    How many minutes till midnight? Two different but related news stories give us a clue.

  • João Pedro Stédile from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil

    João Pedro Stedile on Bolsonaro and Brazilian elections in 2022

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 14, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

    Brazilian peasant leader João Pedro Stedile discusses the different dimensions of the worst crisis in the country’s recent history, as well as the priorities for movements in 2022.

  • Dancers perform during the presidential inauguration ceremony at Heroes Square on November 29, 2021, in Bridgetown, Barbados

    It’s all in the flag: Bussa’s Rebellion and the 200-year fight to end British rule in Barbados

    Originally published: The Conversation on December 6, 2021 by Lewis Eliot (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

    Prince Charles, as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance, providing a royal seal of approval. Barbados gained its independence in 1966, though the new nation kept ties to its former overlords by keeping Elizabeth II as a symbolic head of state.

  • An artist's depiction of Bussa's Rebellion - an enslaved African uprising against British rule in Barbados.

    Britain’s legacy of brutal slavery in Barbados

    Originally published: Hood Communist on December 9, 2021 by by Jacqueline Luqman (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

    Yes, the British Empire is indeed one colony smaller as Barbados formally declared itself independent of its colonial rulers after 400 years yesterday in a big ole fancy ceremony attended by all kinds of dignitaries.

  • Free Palestine

    Marc Garneau CI students say “NO” to silence

    Originally published: School Magazine on December 9, 2021 by William Paul (more by School Magazine) (Posted Dec 17, 2021)

    Let’s give credit to the roughly 200 brave students who walked out of Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute last month. They were protesting how the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has handled what it considers to be antisemitism within its schools.

  • China-Africa friendship continues to flourish on vaccine, trade, renewable energy

    China-Africa friendship continues to flourish on vaccine, trade, renewable energy

    Originally published: CGTN (China Global TV Network) on November 29, 2021 by CGTN (China Global TV Network) (more by CGTN (China Global TV Network))  | (Posted Dec 16, 2021)

    China-Africa friendship is expected to continue to flourish as cooperation is further deepened in various areas after the ongoing 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar, Senegal.

  • (Photo: Todd Cravens / Unsplash)

    Whales will save the world’s climate—unless the military destroys them first

    Originally published: Pressenza on December 14, 2021 by Koohan Paik-Mander (more by Pressenza) (Posted Dec 16, 2021)

    Pentagon documents estimate that 13,744 whales and dolphins are legally allowed to be killed as “incidental takes” during any given year due to military exercises in the Gulf of Alaska.

  • Palestinian refugees were forced by Zionist militias to flee their homes during the 'Nakba' - The Catastrophe - of 1948

    Details of 1948 Massacres against Palestinians revealed in classified Israeli documents

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on December 10, 2021 by Palestine Chronicle (more by Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted Dec 16, 2021)

    Israeli government discussions on the massacres perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in 1948 were declassified for the first time this week in an investigative report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research.

  • former President Hugo Chávez

    Chávez the Radical XXVI: ‘What are Privatizations?’

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on July 18, 2021 by Tatuy TV (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Dec 15, 2021)

    The Bolivarian Revolution represented a break from neoliberal governments. Is the tide turning? Tatuy TV examine that in this episode of “Chávez the Radical.”

  • Train

    Tibet railway in focus as China vows change for landlocked Nepal

    Originally published: China Environment News on December 14, 2021 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Dec 15, 2021)

    In May 2017, Nepal joined the BRI with a hope of obtaining long-term benefits through a myriad of projects. The line has already reached Xigaze (or Shigatse) in Tibet. In July 2020 the next secton of line in Tibet from Xigaze to was still in the planning stage, although China had reportedly commenced surveying work.

  • Teachers on strike in Iran

    Teachers across Iran take strike action demanding jailed trade unionist is freed

    Originally published: Morning Star on December 2021 by Morning Star (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Dec 15, 2021)

    Thousands of protesting teachers assembled in front of the Majlis, or Iranian parliament building, in central Tehran today demanding justice and the release from prison of a leading teacher trade unionist.

  • Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation. Edited and introduced by Marcello Musto, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 21.

    Revisiting Marx on Alienation and Communism

    Originally published: Left Voice on December 13, 2021 by Juan Dal Maso (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    A review of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation, edited and introduced by Marcello Musto.

  • Workers at Deere, a farm machinery company, on the picket line in October.

    The right is surging in the U.S., but there’s cause for hope

    Originally published: Red Flag on December 13, 2021 by Emma Norton (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    Emma Norton speaks to Sherry Wolf and Joel Geier, two long-time revolutionary socialists in the United States, about the turmoil, contradictions and possibilities of the U.S. political situation.

  • Demonstrators at the intersection of Trinity Place and Rector Street on March 24 1988.

    ACT-UP and Win: a riveting account of NYC activism during the AIDS crisis

    Originally published: The Indypendent on December 6, 2021 by Jessica Max Stein (more by The Indypendent)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.

  • ISRAELI SECURITY PERSONNEL GESTURE AT AN OPENING TO THE NEWLY COMPLETED UNDERGROUND BARRIER ALONG ISRAEL’S FRONTIER WITH THE GAZA STRIP IN EREZ, SOUTHERN ISRAEL DECEMBER 7, 2021.

    The construction of Israel’s Gaza concentration camp is complete

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on December 10, 2021 by Haidar Eid (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2021)

    Israel announced the completion of an underground wall and maritime barrier surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip. Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term “concentration camp” to report on it but they should have.

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