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  • Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity

    Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 10, 2022 by Richa Chintan (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2022)

    Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.

  • A Philadelphia rally from March, 2021 in solidarity with the drive to unionize Amazon in Bessmer, Alabama. Credit: Joe Piette, Flickr.

    Nothing natural about this disaster

    Originally published: Tempest on Decembe 31, 2021 by Thomas Hummel (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Profit over people kills workers in the Midwest.

  • Women in the Haitian Revolution

    Women in the Haitian Revolution

    Originally published: Hood Communist on January 6, 2021 by Tristan Graham (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Black women in the French-speaking world have been marginalized throughout history and even if they did not lack autonomy within the family unit (which often they did), they certainly suffered as a result of their colonial status. This often created double oppression.

  • EC Comics logo, circa 1944.

    When comic books threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)

    Originally published: Tempest on December 27, 2021 by Hank Kennedy (more by Tempest)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.

  • (Illustration: Herlinde Demaerel / China Dialogue)

    Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today

    Originally published: China Dialogue on December 28, 2021 by Claudia Ituarte-Lima (more by China Dialogue)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2022)

    Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.

  • Clockwise from left: William Dawson, Marian Anderson, William Grant Still, Florence Price. Background features the score of Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2.

    Classical music and the color line

    Originally published: Boston Review on December 15, 2021 by Douglas Shadle (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2022)

    The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping's December video summit could mark the start of some major global financial shifts.

    Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape

    Originally published: The Cradle on December 17, 2021 by Pepe Escobar (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2022)

    Russia and China’s announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities.

  • Father Stan Swamy

    Ill-treatment of Stan Swamy in jail should ‘shake foundation of democracy’: Fellow prisoner

    Originally published: The Wire on January 6, 2022 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2022)

    Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.

  • Alfred Nobel

    There is no Nobel Prize in economics

    Originally published: The Daily Star on October 22, 2020 by Asrar Chowdhury (more by The Daily Star)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2022)

    Let’s debunk a myth. There is no “Nobel Prize in Economics”. On Nov 27, 1895, when Alfred Nobel signed his will, he left five prizes in alphabetical order to: chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Economics is declared after the Panchapandavas above.

  • Leonardo Boff

    Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on January 5, 2022 by Leonardo Boff (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jan 07, 2022)

    The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher-order.

  • 2 December 2021: Protesters including Fawu, Giwusa and Inqubelaphambili Trade Union members at Clover’s head office in Constantia Kloof, Roodekop.

    South Africa: Clover workers call for nationalisation

    Originally published: New Frame on January 5, 2022 by Anna Majavu (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2022)

    Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.

  • Cuba - Atlantic Ocean

    Unlocking U.S. sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba

    Originally published: Silk Road Briefing on January 3, 2022 by Chris Devonshire-Ellis (more by Silk Road Briefing) (Posted Jan 07, 2022)

    Beijing is slowly unpicking Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.

  • The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor

    The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor

    Originally published: Developing Economics on January 4, 2022 by Elaine Agyemang Tontoh (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2022)

    The triple day thesis of motherhood is conceptualized as a mother who engages in the reproductive work of childbearing and childrearing (the single day), in addition to waged work (the double day) and self-reproductive work (the triple day).

  • When Thousands Are Evicted Each Day in A Land of Fabled Riches

    When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches

    Originally published: Countercurrents on January 2, 2022 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2022)

    Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.

  • Conspiracy Theorist Anonymous

    Originally published: The Chaser on December 17, 2020 by The Chaser (more by The Chaser) (Posted Jan 05, 2022)

    A support group for conspiracy theorists finds one fictional belief so bonkers even they can’t get behind it.

  • Kim Philby

    Kim Philby remembered: A traitor to his class

    Originally published: In Defense of Communism on January 3, 2022 by In Defense of Communism (more by In Defense of Communism)  | (Posted Jan 05, 2022)

    Kim Philby, born on January 1st, 1912, is one of the best known double agents of the Cold War era.

  • Colombia 2021:The Year in which State Terrorism Became Visible

    Colombia 2021: The year in which State terrorism became visible

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on January 2, 2022 by Renán Vega Cantor - La Pluma (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jan 05, 2022)

    The State and the ruling classes of Colombia, which constitute the counterinsurgent power bloc, have made use of a series of fallacies to hide the terrorist nature of the State in this country, consolidated as such for decades.

  • Production Gap Report 2021

    The Production Gap report

    Originally published: Production Gap on December 2021 by Production Gap (more by Production Gap) (Posted Jan 04, 2022)

    Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits.

  • Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York after learning that they are the first to unionize in the country.

    After years of setbacks, U.S. labor demonstrates its power

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 27, 2021 by Monica Cruz (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 04, 2022)

    2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers in partaking in union votes and strike actions.

  • 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.

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