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Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN
UNICEF said the world’s schools and education systems were “largely ill equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
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Trump’s billionaire cabinet represents the top 0.0001%
The collective net worth of Trump’s top appointees is reportedly estimated to exceed $460 billion, including Elon Musk’s $400 billion net worth.
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New realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
The ceasefire is publicized as a demonstration of Trump’s and U.S. leverage with respect to Israel when it actively seeks results rather than merely wants to make a rhetorical impression, but there is more to this ceasefire that is immediately apparent.
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‘Banality of evil’: Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation
Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.
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Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.
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Did Trump ‘fix’ TikTok? Users report censorship after outage
When the platform came back online, U.S. users were greeted with a message crediting its return to Trump: “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!”
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78 miners found starved and dehydrated to death in South African police operation against unlicensed mining
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water supply in its attempt to crackdown on unlicensed mining.
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Art on trial
The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.
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Trump reverses sanctions on Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank in first act as president
The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”
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Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses
A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal.
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For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism
Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”
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Must dance and have a moustache
Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.
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Why Greenland? How Trump learned to love the bomb
As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland.
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TikTok ban paves way for suppressing speech in anti-China crusade
On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court launched a sweeping, unanimous assault on the First Amendment.
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‘Beaten before release’: Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations
Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.
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Sarah Glynn & John Clarke – “Climate Change is a Class Issue”
In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.
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BAR Book Forum: Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’s Book, “Abolish Rent”
In this series, we (BAR Book Forum) ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.
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Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism
— “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”
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Corporations and billionaires are bankrolling Trump’s inauguration
Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.
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‘I am a Gazan’: Writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday
The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS.