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  • Chinese Provinces Curb Private Schools, Encourage Public Education

    Chinese Provinces curb private schools, encourage public education

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 29, 2021 by Du Xinyu and Huang Yujia (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2021)

    While Hunan and Jiangsu will cap the number of students attending private academic institutions, Sichuan has stopped approving such facilities altogether.

  • Brazil's health minister Marcelo Queiroga and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

    Brazil suspends Covaxin contract as scandal becomes too hot for Bolsonaro

    Originally published: The Wire on June 29, 2021 by Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2021)

    An invoice for advance payment of $45 million raised by the offshore partner of Bharat Biotech is certain to become the reason for the impending cancellation of the contract.

  • This morning, I met with my fellow G7 leaders for the first time as president. I made clear that America is back at the table — and I’m committed to working with them to control the pandemic and address the shared challenges we face. Date: 19 February 2021 Source: https://www.facebook.com/POTUS/photos/a.107570957986108/136030625140141/?type=3&theater (Photo: The White House)

    A crumb from the G-7 table

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on June 20, 2021 by Prabhat Patnaik (more by Peoples Democracy)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2021)

    The G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries.

  • An investor looks on as prices fall at a stock brokerage house in Hangzhou, China. (Photo: Canadian Dimension - Shutterstock)

    Capitalism is on life support. We have a decision to make

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on June 28, 2021 by Joe Roberts (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2021)

    Canadians won’t settle for a return to how things were before the pandemic.

  • A Walgreens store in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2020.

    The dishonest blame game of retail store closures and crime

    Originally published: The Appeal on June 22, 2021 by Kyle C. Barry (more by The Appeal)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2021)

    Reporters who parrot corporate claims of out-of-control theft play into a narrative that benefits big business and perpetuates carceral policies.

  • The ATC which represents tens of thousands of farm workers helps run trainings on agroecological food production to help ensure healthy food access for all. Photo: ATC

    Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on June 27, 2021 by Rohan Rice (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    As hunger and food insecurity increases globally, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has been working for the last decade to strengthen local food production and ensure food sovereignty in the face of sanctions.

  • Tom Lawson, The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania (Bloomsbury 2021, paperback edition), xxvii, 271pp.

    The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania – book review

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 24, 2021 by Dominic Alexander (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    The idea that there was anything remotely worthy about Britain’s imperial past has been steadily losing credibility, despite the Johnson government’s disgraceful and offensive insistence to the contrary.

  • Protester at a rally calling for jailed workers to be released, in Caracas on June 22. Photo: Surgentes/FB

    ‘Turning right, repressing left’: How Venezuela’s Maduro shifted course

    Originally published: Green Left on June 24, 2021 - Issue 1313 by Federico Fuentes and Antonio González Plessmann (more by Green Left)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    In the face of a prolonged and deep economic and political crisis, Venezuela’s government has embarked on a “turn to the right” in economic policy, while resorting to repression against the left.

  • Graphic by Antonio Cabrera

    Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 25, 2021 by Alan Macleod (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.

  • Alfred Sohn-Rethel Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology

    Alfred Sohn-Rethel – ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology‘

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 18, 2021 by Fabian Van Onzen (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    Upon reading Sohn-Rethel it becomes clear that his work is important for contemporary debates on ecology, the Marxist critique of science and debates on post-revolutionary societies such as the former Soviet Union.

  • The Imminent Coup in Peru

    The imminent coup in Peru

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 26, 2021 by Kawsachun News (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    Legal maneuvers and delays, presented by the far-right, are pushing Peru closer to a coup with each passing day. It’s been 20 days since Peru’s June 6th election, and the authorities have not yet proclaimed the winner, Pedro Castillo.

  • 10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear

    10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 23, 2021 by Simon Butler (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.

  • Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during Women's Unity Rally at Foley Square as hundreds of people attend. (lev radin / Shutterstock.com)

    Socialism increasingly seen as ‘badge of pride’ in the United States

    Originally published: Socialism increasingly seen as 'badge of pride' in the United States on June 25, 2021 by Kenny Stancil (more by Socialism increasingly seen as 'badge of pride' in the United States) (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    While a majority of U.S. adults still have more positive than negative perceptions of capitalism, less than half of the country’s 18 to 34-year-olds view the profit-maximizing market system favorably, and the attractiveness of socialism continues to increase among people over 35, according to a new poll released Friday.

  • How China’s Idols Are Working Hard to Hardly Work

    How China’s idols are working hard to hardly work

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on June 24, 2021 by Cai Zongcheng (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    At a time when seemingly everyone is working more for less, why should idols be any exception?

  • The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype

    The thin blue lies behind crime wave hype

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 24, 2021 by Josmar Trujillo (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

    2021 as the city, and nation, begin to climb out of a pandemic that saw mass economic and social fallout—to say nothing of the lives lost. A historic, once-in-a-lifetime worldwide event destabilized the lives of countless people, and also led to an undeniable rise in shootings and homicide across the country.

  • DISSENTER FEATUREDLATEST NEWSTHE DISSENTERTHE PROTEST MUSIC PROJECT PROTEST SONG OF THE WEEK: ‘I PITY THE COUNTRY’ BY LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON

    Protest song of the week: ‘I pity the Country’ by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    Originally published: Shadowproof on April 7, 2021 by CJ Baker (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an acclaimed novelist, poet, scholar, and singer. She is also a member of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg people, native to southern Ontario, Canada. She recently released her stunning new album “Theory Of Ice.”

  • People walk from a rural area towards the town of Agula in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where the Relief Society of Tigray was distributing food. (Ben Curtis/AP)

    Don’t allow another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa

    Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on June 24, 2021 (more by Black Alliance for Peace)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Paternalistic U.S. government political posturing toward Africa has a history of turning into fatal consequences for the masses of African peoples.

  • Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl

    Pentagon whistleblower under investigation after warning about risks of war with China over Taiwan

    Originally published: Shadowproof on June 24, 2021 by Kevin Gosztola (more by Shadowproof)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been part of the United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last months trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan.

  • PALESTINIANS CARRY TORCHES DURING A NIGHT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF A JEWISH SETTLEMENT ON THE LANDS OF BEITA VILLAGE, NEAR THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK CITY OF NABLUS, ON JUNE 23, 2021. PHOTO BY SHADI JARAR’AH (C) APA IMAGES.

    Five Palestinians have been killed protesting illegal settlement — but ‘NYT’ covers ‘gentle stream’ in nearby kibbutz

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on June 24, 2021 by Philip Weiss (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    The story is getting wide coverage in Palestine but not in the United States, though these lands are the supposed basis of a “Palestinian state”–and again, five Palestinians have been killed defending their rights.

  • The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge

    The case of Alex Saab – U.S. abduction of Venezuelan diplomat, a global challenge

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 23, 2021 by Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2021)

    The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela.

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