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    Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on August 24, 2021 by Adriana Gregson and Andrés Antillano – Ph9 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2021)

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    Originally published: Scientist Rebellion on August 2021 by Scientist Rebellion (more by Scientist Rebellion) (Posted Aug 27, 2021)

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    Originally published: Mondoweiss on August 24, 2021 by Mark Braverman (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2021)

    The United Church of Christ resolution calling Israel’s continued “oppression” of Palestinians a “sin” has alarmed the American Jewish Committee and for good reason: Other Protestant churches are sure to follow, with measures that pose a real threat to apartheid.

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    Originally published: Sixth Tone on August 25, 2021 by Wang Wenqing (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2021)

    For China’s tech companies, user growth is increasingly all about having the pushiest push notifications.

  • "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice," published this month. MACMILLAN

    ‘Inflamed’ shows how an unjust world is making us sick

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 17, 2021 by Nic Yeager (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2021)

    A new book from UT Austin research professor Raj Patel and UC San Francisco physician Rupa Marya argues that our bodies, our society, and our planet are inflamed.

  • Venezuelan gangs have abandoned petty crime in favor of more commercial activities, specialist Andrés Antillano argues. (Ph9)

    Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on August 19, 2021 by Adriana Gregson and Andrés Antillano – Ph9 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2021)

    Criminologist Andrés Antillano looks at the causes of the transformation of Venezuela’s gangs.

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    The Laura Flanders Show: An Indigenous roadmap for a just transition

    Originally published: ROAR magazine on august 23, 2021 by The Laura Flanders Show (more by ROAR magazine)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2021)

    Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.

  • A Muslim bangle selle.r being attacked in Indore. (Photo: Video screengrab)

    The World must pay attention to the violence against Muslims in India

    Originally published: The Wire on August 24, 2021 by Apoorvanand (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2021)

    From Ajmer to Indore, recent incidents show that the continuing hate-mongering by right-wing forces is having a direct impact.

  • Circe Denyer via Public Domain (CC BY 1.0)

    The case of the vanishing boss

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology Blog on August 11, 2021 by Hanna Goldberg (more by Marxist Sociology Blog)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    This article summarizes the manuscript, “The Two-Employer Problem: Strategic Dilemmas at the Heart of the Tipped Wage Debate,” a co-winner of the 2021 Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award.

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    Revolutionary socialism is the primary political ideology of The Red Nation

    Originally published: The Red Nation on September 7, 2019 by The Red Nation Editorial Council (more by The Red Nation)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation.

  • Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane

    The blood never dries

    Originally published: Red Pepper on August 19, 2021 by Richard Gott (more by Red Pepper)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning.

  • Before and after photo smoke and pollution Salt Lake Valley

    Worst air in the world? Salt Lake City, Utah

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 21, 2021 by Liz Maryon (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    Salt Lake City has ranked first for worst air quality in the world twice in the past two weeks. While poor air quality is not a new problem for Utah, the climate crisis is exacerbating the problem due to the devastating increase in wildfires caused in large part by climate change-fueled severe droughts throughout the region in the warmer months.

  • Health care is a human right

    Prioritising profits reversed health progress

    Originally published: JOMO on August 23, 2021 by Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (more by JOMO)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market ‘non-system’ has emerged. The 1980s’ neo-liberal counter-revolution against the historic 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration is responsible.

  • Richard Lewontin

    Richard Lewontin: Race science for the people

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 8, 2021 by Joseph L. Graves Jr. - Lewontin Memorial Collection (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.

  • The New York Times (8/15/21) ran the next best thing to a photo of a helicopter taking off from the Kabul embassy roof: a photo of a helicopter flying over the embassy roof.

    As Kabul is retaken, papers look back in Erasure

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 19, 2021 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    Corporate media coverage of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the collapse of the country’s U.S.-backed government has offered audiences more mystification than illumination.

  • Netflix

    Streamers versus socialism

    Originally published: Culture Matters on August 17, 2021 by Dennis Broe (more by Culture Matters)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    Dennis Broe reports on how the streaming services are attempting to subvert government-financed and often more progressive film and television production

  • NUMSA via Twitter

    Assassins of South African trade unionist at large as labor dispute continues

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 23, 2021 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    Malibongwe Mdazo, an organizer of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, who had led a 7,000-worker strike last month, was publicly gunned down at the doorstep of Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, amidst a labor dispute on August 19.

  • A look at the the crushing sanctions levied by the U.S. and allies, as well as their consequences for the Venezuelan population. (Venezuelanalysis / Utopix)

    ‘The Blockade Against Venezuela: Measures and Consequences’

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on August 22, 2021 by Venezuelanalysis.com (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    In recent years, the United States and its allies have unleashed a devastating blockade against Venezuela in hopes of triggering regime change.

  • Circa 1915: American naval officers and marines from the USS Washington come ashore for the capture of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. (Photograph by Getty Images)

    Imperialism and its discontents

    Originally published: New Frame on August 23, 2021 by New Frame (more by New Frame)  | (Posted Aug 23, 2021)

    On the night of 14 August 1791, enslaved Africans gathered in the Bois Caïman forest and planned the revolt that would begin the Haitian Revolution. Last week, on the 230th anniversary of this meeting, Haiti was hit by an earthquake that has upturned the lives of more than a million people.

  • Hasan Durkal is a former teacher and political activist with the Party for Social Freedom.

    What is happening in Turkey?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on August 21, 2021 by Maurizio Coppola (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Aug 23, 2021)

    Despite the announcements from the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that “everything is under control”, Turkey is experiencing one of the deepest crises in recent years. A conversation with Hasan Durkal.

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