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  • Power shortages in September triggered a debate about China’s climate policy

    Year in review: China’s climate goals withstand heat

    Originally published: China Dialogue on December 21, 2021 by Ma Tianjie (more by China Dialogue)  | (Posted Jan 04, 2022)

    Chinese policymakers have been rapidly developing new climate policies even as major events have threatened to derail them.

  • A donation of Sinopharm vaccines arrives in Bolivia from China. Photo: Últimas Noticias

    China Sends Bolivia 3 Million COVID-19 Vaccines

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on December 28, 2021 by Últimas Noticias (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Dec 31, 2021)

    Bolivia has received three million Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines from China, the largest delivery of vaccines to arrive in Bolivia from the Asian superpower.

  • Original illustration by Mr. Fish

    Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange

    Originally published: Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange on December 27, 2021 by Chris Hedges (more by Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange) (Posted Dec 31, 2021)

    Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.

  • The FBI File on Foucault

    The FBI file on Foucault

    Originally published: Viewpoint Magazine on November 8, 2021 by Marcelo Hoffman (more by Viewpoint Magazine) (Posted Dec 31, 2021)

    The materials in the enlarged version of the FBI file on Foucault cover the period from September 1972 to October 1977. Yet he visited the United States before and after that period. We are therefore left with the glaring question of how the FBI and other agencies concerned with his entry into the country treated him during the years of his other visits.

  • Photo taken on Dec 8, 2021 shows wind turbines at Changma wind farm in Yumen City, Northwest China's Gansu province. [Photo/Agencies]

    Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy

    Originally published: China Daily on December 28, 2021 by Sergio Held (more by China Daily)  | (Posted Dec 30, 2021)

    Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure, Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from fossil fuels.

  • Far from enhancing Canadian security, CSIS and the Five Eyes alliance are enmeshing this country in a campaign of disinformation and propaganda regarding China reminiscent of the McCarthy era, writes John Price. Illustration courtesy RS Kingdom.

    A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes

    Originally published: A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes on December 23, 2021 by John Price (more by A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes) (Posted Dec 30, 2021)

    Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria professor emeritus and historian John Price examines the rise of the coalition of Anglo settler colonial states of Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, and how they are today fomenting conflict in the Asia Pacific.

  • Oregon coast

    Warnings from the Far North

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on December 27, 2021 by Robert Hunziker (more by Dissident Voice)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2021)

    “Breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures” is horrific to contemplate.

  • bell hooks

    bell hooks changed how we think about Black femininity, class, and capitalism

    Originally published: People's World on December 17, 2021 by Chauncey K. Robinson (more by People's World)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2021)

    The world lost a trailblazing thinker and feminist this week. Professor and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, passed away at the age of 69.

  • Illustration: Knut Løvås, knutlvas@gmail.com

    The Nobel Prize winner that predicted a crisis between nature and capital

    Originally published: UCL IIPP Blog on December 22, 2021 by Erik S. Reinert (more by UCL IIPP Blog) (Posted Dec 29, 2021)

    Since 1901, December has been a time for Nobel Prizes. Only in 1969, as an afterthought, the Swedish Central Bank established the ‘Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel’—a decision that was met with protests by some members of the Nobel family.

  • March/parade

    Cuba seeks more equality and inclusion with the new Code of Families

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on December 26, 2021 by Alejandra Garcia (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Dec 29, 2021)

    Roxanne Castellano, professor at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Havana, explained that this is a Code based on paradigms of non-discrimination that creates spaces for all, seeks solutions to conflicts, and is consistent with the conception of our socialist state of law and social justice.

  • President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele, who accompanied his declaration that cryptocurrency would be recognised as legal tender in June by changing his Twitter profile pic to this version of himself with glowing laser eyes.

    Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left

    Originally published: Red Pepper on December 27, 2021 by Thomas Redshaw (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them.

  • Abu-Jamal in 1988 (Photo: Prison Radio)

    Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered’

    Originally published: Shadowproof on July 30, 2017 by Roqayah Chamseddine (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    Though he’s spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.

  • nature

    Inegalitarian growth or just degrowth: the IPCC has opened the debate

    Originally published: International Viewpoint on December 27, 2021 by Daniel Tanuro (more by International Viewpoint)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    Twenty-five years ago, “degrowth” was conceived by its proponents as a “buzzword” carrying a vague ideological charge: Serge Latouche and his supporters said they wanted to “change the way people think” in order to “get out of the economy and development”… Today, degrowth is once again being debated, but on the basis of more rigorous premises.

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    #Africa4Palestine mourns the loss of Archbishop Tutu

    Originally published: Africa4Palestine on December 26, 2021 by Africa4Palestine (more by Africa4Palestine)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2021)

    PRESS STATEMENT: Africa4Palestine mourns the loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  • Pablo Sepúlveda Allende, a doctor, a coordinator of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity (REDH), and grandson of former President Salvador Allende Gossens, responded to now president-elect Gabriel Boric over his position on Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Photo: The Clinic 

    Salvador Allende’s Grandson Responds to Boric: The Human Rights Double Standard and ‘Chic’ Leftism

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on December 22, 2021 by El Ciudadano (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2021)

    Doctor Sepúlveda Allende’s open letter to Boric is translated and reproduced.

  • Omicron

    Omicron: It didn’t have to be Groundhog Day

    Originally published: Counterfire on December 16, 2021 by Yonas Makoni (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2021)

    Standing at the precipice of another major, acute coronavirus crisis, the country is rightly asking how the Tories have let this happen again.

  • Climate campaigners gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London earlier this month. Three members of the Paid to Pollute group have brought a case against the UK government challenging public money going to the oil and gas industry. (Image: Sabrina Merolla / Alamy)

    Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed

    Originally published: China Dialogue on December 21, 2021 by Isabella Kaminski (more by China Dialogue)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2021)

    This year’s successes include Shell becoming the first company in history to be held legally liable for contributing to climate change.

  • Bourgeois Idealism & the Promotion of Anti-Intellectualism

    Bourgeois Idealism & the Promotion of Anti-Intellectualism

    Originally published: Hood Communist on December 16, 2021 by Ahjamu Umi (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Dec 23, 2021)

    I know already as I’m writing this piece that it’s not going to be a piece that’s widely read and/or shared. I know this because I’ve written a number of pieces that have been read and shared by thousands.

  • Frederick Douglass and the Haiti Commission on USS Tennessee in Key West. Image: Florida Keys Public Libraries

    Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti

    Originally published: Boston Review on December 9, 2021 by Peter James Hudson (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted Dec 23, 2021)

    Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

  • ISRAELI SETTLERS FROM THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT OF YITZHAR THROW STONES DURING CLASHES WITH PALESTINIANS FROM THE VILLAGE OF ASIRA AL-QIBILIYA, SOUTH OF THE NORTHERN WEST BANK CITY OF NABLUS ON MAY 19, 2012. (PHOTO: WAGDI ESHTAYAH/APA IMAGES)

    Israeli army rule allowing shooting of stone-throwers will be applied to Palestinians, not Jews

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on December 21, 2021 by Yossi Gurvitz (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Dec 23, 2021)

    The Israeli military has changed its rules of engagement to allow its forces to fire on Palestinians who have thrown stones or firebombs even when they no longer pose any danger. The new rule is a sop to Israeli settlers, the IDF’s clientele.

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