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  • Welcome sign along eastbound Interstate 40 entering Deaf Smith County, Texas from Quay County, New Mexico.

    Opinion: From ‘friendly’ state to enmity state

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 5, 2021 by Andrea Grimes (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2021)

    As Texas Republicans pit neighbor against neighbor, we must respond by rebuking bigotry and embracing progress.

  • A-bomb survivors play "profound role" in COVID pandemic: U.S. scholar

    A-bomb survivors play “profound role” in COVID pandemic: U.S. scholar

    Originally published: Kyodo News on August 2, 2021 by Kyodo News (more by Kyodo News) (Posted Aug 06, 2021)

    Survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan have a “profound role” to play in catastrophes such as the coronavirus pandemic, a leading American psychohistorian renowned for his studies of people under stress told Kyodo News in a recent interview.

  • Pegasus: Why the Booming Surveillance Software Industry Is Vulnerable to Abuse

    Pegasus: why the booming surveillance software industry is vulnerable to abuse; also: Snowden interview

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on August 1, 2021 by Christian Kemp and David Pegg (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2021)

    The world’s most sophisticated commercially-available spyware may be being abused, according to an investigation by 17 media organisations in ten countries.

  • Brazil’s US-Backed Military Regime Casts Shadow Over Hopes For 2022 Election

    Brazil’s U.S.-backed military regime casts shadow over hopes for 2022 election

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 3, 2021 by Brasil Wire (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2021)

    Bolsonaro’s candidacy was democratic packaging for the long game of the military’s return to government. As they look to defend their position a year out from elections, the situation has escalated.

  • How Did Nicaragua Reduce Hunger and Malnutrition?

    How did Nicaragua reduce hunger and malnutrition?

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on August 1, 2021 (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    Erika Takeo from Nicaragua’s Association of Rural Workers (ATC) and Rohan Rice, a writer and campaigner with the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign explain.

  • Eviction tsunami crashes, Democrats shrug shoulders

    Eviction tsunami crashes, Democrats shrug shoulders

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 2, 2021 by Nicholas Stender (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    On Saturday, Biden’s half-hearted, last-minute plea for Congress to extend the federal eviction moratorium failed and the measure expired.

  • MOURNERS IN BEIT UMMAR CARRY THE BODY OF 11-YEAR-OLD MOHAMMED AL-ALAMI WHO WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI SOLDERIS WHILE ON HIS WAY HOME FROM GROCERY SHOPPING WITH HIS FAMILY . JULY 29TH, 2021

    Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on July 29, 2021 by Yumna Patel (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father’s car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed’s funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.

  • Dina Polekhina/Unsplash

    Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them

    Originally published: Briarpatch Magazine on July 29, 2021 by F.T. Green (more by Briarpatch Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and even deploying teams of gerbils to sniff out anxious visitors.

  • These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology that Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism

    These 3 deceptively simple questions can shatter the mythology that sanctifies U.S. imperialism

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on July 23, 2021 by Matt McKenna (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2021)

    The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

  • Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe

    Marx in the MEGA

    Originally published: Mainstream on July 30, 2021 by Pradip Baksi (more by Mainstream) (Posted Aug 03, 2021)

    This process started in the second half of the 1880s with Friedrich Engels’ editorial interventions on Marx’s manuscripts related to the theme of Capital within his incomplete research programme for a Critique of Political Economy.

  • Top: Benito Mussolini, António de Oliveira Salazar, Miklos Horthy and Narendra Modi; Bottom: Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Ion Antonescu and Augusto Pinochet.

    Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the ‘family resemblances’ can no longer be denied

    Originally published: The Wire on July 31, 2021 by Anjan Basu (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2021)

    Umberto Eco’s inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi’s New India.

  • Labor and Monopoly Capital

    Defending Marx and Braverman: taking back the labour process in theory and practice

    Originally published: International Socialism on July 26, 2021 Issue 171 by Bob Carter (more by International Socialism) (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    Writing his 1974 book Labour and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, U.S. Marxist and political economist Harry Braverman noted that Karl Marx had demonstrated that processes of production are constantly transformed by the driving force of capital accumulation.

  • La Via Campesina and other organizations are boycotting the United Nations Food Systems Summit over corporate capture of the space.

    Sustainable food systems are possible outside corporate agriculture

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 28, 2021 by Jyotsna Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    The United Nations Food Systems Summit has become one of the most controversial events of this year due to corporate take over. Civil society activists came together during the pre-summit to register their protest.

  • Glen Ford

    Glen Ford, veteran journalist and founder of Black Agenda Report, dies at 71

    Originally published: NewsOne on July 28, 2021 by Bruce C.T. Wright (more by NewsOne)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2021)

    Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.

  • Beyond the Socialist Impasse - Remembering Leo Panitch pt. 1

    Beyond the Socialist Impasse: Remembering Leo Panitch

    Originally published: Socialist Project - LeftStreamed on July 25, 2021 by Left Forum (more by Socialist Project - LeftStreamed)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2021)

    Remembering Leo Panitch

  • A soldier patrols the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2018.

    Canadian imperialism and the underdevelopment of Burkina Faso

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on July 28, 2021 by Owen Schalk (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jul 30, 2021)

    Canadian mining companies own $2.5 billion of Burkina Faso’s gold, and the country is one of the most poverty-stricken in Africa.

  • Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

    ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy’ (2017)

    Editor

    This guide is designed to help understand the central ideas in Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. New York: Monthly Review, (2017)

  • Ben & Jerry

    They all scream over Ben & Jerry’s not selling ice cream on the West Bank

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 27, 2021 by Ari Paul (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jul 29, 2021)

    Ben & Jerry’s decision to halt its operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem has pro-Israel editors working overtime.

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

    Andreas Malm: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’

    Originally published: Andreas Malm: 'Because Nothing Else Has Worked' on July 26, 2021 by Thomas Neuburger (more by Andreas Malm: 'Because Nothing Else Has Worked') (Posted Jul 29, 2021)

    Property violence kills no one. And yet, to say it again, I’m not today advocating property violence. I am, on the other hand, advocating a discussion of it. – Thomas Neuburger

  • Hands behind bars

    Transatlantic slave trade: Legacy of entangled affair between imperialism, racism, slavery

    Originally published: Yeni Şafak on July 23, 2021 by Ahmet Gencturk (more by Yeni Şafak) (Posted Jul 28, 2021)

    To legitimize slavery and its atrocities, western imperialism birthed racism, idea of superiority of whites over Black people.

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