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  • Racial Hate

    The pyramid scheme that is racial capitalism

    Originally published: Black Republic Media on September 5, 2023 by Jon Jeter (more by Black Republic Media)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2023)

    On August 26, a lone white gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, fired 11 rounds from his semi-automatic weapon into the windshield of a car parked outside a Jacksonville Dollar General, killing the African American driver. Then he walked into the discount store, and fatally shot two other African Americans before turning the gun on himself.

  • The smoke from wildfires obscures the Seattle sky. Photo: JINGXUAN JI via Canva.

    All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed

    Originally published: Stockholm Resilience Centre on September 13, 2023 (more by Stockholm Resilience Centre)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2023)

    For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity.

  • Former President Bill Clinton speaking

    How Bill Clinton looted Russia and started NATO expansion

    Originally published: Antiwar.com Blog on September 11, 2023 by Edward Lozansky (more by Antiwar.com Blog) (Posted Sep 15, 2023)

    Avoiding Nuclear War: As the list of those who take the looming threat of nuclear war seriously keeps growing, let’s try to analyze what brought us to this sad state of affairs.

  • (Photo: AMG)

    Chile today: massive march and repression

    Originally published: Pressenza on September 13, 2023 by Pía Figueroa (more by Pressenza) (Posted Sep 15, 2023)

    It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express their discomfort with society, to express their pain at the breakdown of democracy and all that followed.

  • Google London

    Google spends $10 bn a year to monopolize online searching: U.S. DoJ

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 13, 2023 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2023)

    This accusation surfaced during the commencement of a historic trial, marking the most significant antitrust case in the U.S. in over twenty years.

  • Melinda Butterfield at the International Trans Colloquium in Havana, Cuba, May 2023. Photo: Serena Sojic-Borne

    ‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 12, 2023 by Sharon Black (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2023)

    Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.

  • Anya Parampil

    Announcing ‘Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire’ by Anya Parampil

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 11, 2023 by Anya Parampil (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2023)

    After four years of frontline reporting and research, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil unveils her forthcoming book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire.

  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on September 9, called for a new international anti-drug policy, condemning the US war on drugs. Photo: Gustavo Petro/X

    Colombia and Mexico call for new international anti-drug policy

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on September 13, 2023 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2023)

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Mexican President AMLO condemned the US militarized war on drugs, and called for a new international anti-drug policy from a non-militaristic vision, which promotes social justice and attention to the root causes

  • A wasted planet gone on sale

    A wasted planet gone on sale

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 12, 2023 by Janna Kadri (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2023)

    The planet has been laid to waste, and society pays for the waste in both money and lost years of life.

  • 55 Pan-African Organzations Oppose Sanctions On Niger

    55 Pan-African organizations oppose sanctions on Niger

    Originally published: Hood Communist on September 7, 2023 by Thomas Sankara (Center for African Liberation and Unity) (more by Hood Communist)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2023)

    Following the military coup in Niger, ECOWAS decided to impose humiliating and illegitimate sanctions on Niger at the end of the Heads of State conference in Abuja on July 30.

  • ‘Green Growth’

    ‘There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 5, 2023 by Climate & Capitalism (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2023)

    Lancet study finds ‘green growth’ policies fall far short of what’s needed to prevent dangerous change

  • A worker organizes dry cannabis buds for sale at a legal dispensary. (Photo: Getty / OtherWords)

    The Federal Government is evolving on marijuana-but not fast enough

    Originally published: OtherWords on September 7, 2023 by Paul Armentano (more by OtherWords) (Posted Sep 13, 2023)

    We shouldn’t treat cannabis like heroin. But we shouldn’t treat it like ketamine either, as a federal agency now recommends.

  • In August, millions of Ecuadorians voted in a landmark referendum to halt oil exploration and development in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Signs urging the public to vote “Sí al Yasuni” or “yes” appeared across the country. Photo courtesy Amazon Frontlines.

    Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change seriously

    Originally published: Canadian Dimension on September 5, 2023 by Josh Gottlieb (more by Canadian Dimension)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2023)

    It is long past time we end our mad rush to burn the planet to the ground.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    How the U.S., UAE and Israel plundered Iraq’s antiquities

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 8, 2023 by Ahmed al-Rubaie (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2023)

    The U.S. invasion of Iraq paved the way for the systematic looting and destruction of countless ancient artifacts and manuscripts–with the UAE and Israel playing a significant part in the ongoing theft and global smuggling of these items.

  • In 2023, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest dropped to pre-Bolsonaro levels. - FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR / AFP

    Brazil stopped deforestation in the Amazon, but ‘the point of no return’ is still close

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on September 5, 2023 by Murilo Pajolla (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2023)

    In 40 years, Amazon rainforest lost an area equivalent to France; at this rate, catastrophe is imminent, say scientists.

  • Evolution of the U.S. military aid to Ukraine. | Photo: X/ @ukraine_map

    The U.S. announces 1 billion in new aid for Ukraine

    Originally published: teleSUR English on September 7, 2023 by Xinhua (more by teleSUR English)  | (Posted Sep 11, 2023)

    Washington also provided a US$203-million funding for support to transparency and accountability of institutions.

  • soldier

    Cuban soldiers in the Russian army?

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on September 7, 2023 by Raúl Antonio Capote (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Sep 11, 2023)

    The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world.

  • Washington’s Expanding Military Footprint on China’s Doorsteps

    Washington’s expanding military footprint on China’s doorsteps

    Originally published: NEO (New Eastern Outlook) on September 5, 2023 by Brian Berletic (more by NEO (New Eastern Outlook))  | (Posted Sep 11, 2023)

    A series of announcements by the US reflect its large and still growing military presence across Asia-Pacific, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. Together, they reflect a continued and increasingly desperate desire by Washington to encircle and contain China.

  • Canada's first climate change election | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne

    Review: “Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism”

    Originally published: Counterfire on August 19, 2023 by John Clarke (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 11, 2023)

    Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke

  • September 11, 1973, Allende’s body is taken from the Presidential Palace

    Chile: This is how they killed Allende

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on September 6, 2023 by Geraldina Colloti (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Sep 11, 2023)

    For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing.

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