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USA Israel Germany: Berlin Bulletin No. 230, January 31, 2025
2025 started off with many a bang.
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The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.
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The Aroztegia Development Project, an “Urban Pelotazo”: Real Estate Jackpot
In the Basque Country, land is being expropriated in order to build a luxury hotel and seven people are scheduled to got to trial, facing a sentence of twenty years in jail and 43 million euros in damages. Once again, Spanish authorities are trying to criminalize popular protest. Read more about the movement and how you can help.
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Dossier no. 84: Towards a New Development Theory for the Global South
As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfill the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.
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‘Complete surrender’: How Gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis
Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.
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Statement from Katherine Franke
A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.
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Looking backward autobiographically
I’m old enough to remember, just barely, the Great Depression: lines of shabby men waiting for free soup, better-dressed men selling apples on streetcorners, miles of evil-smelling, self-made shacks in a Hooverville near Newark.… In February 1937 I recall the movie newsreel with happy, unshaven sit-down strikers at GM in Flint, waving from the factory windows in a dramatic (Communist-led) victory which changed the USA.
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The Hegemony of the Dollar
Liberal opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within which trade can be carried on. The reality however is altogether different: the international system is founded upon the hegemony of western imperialism, and in turn sustains this hegemony.
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John Bellamy Foster: “The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature” – Book Review
How can we transcend the alienation of humanity and nature, and create a world of substantive equality and ecological sustainability?
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How Israeli Hooligans Fueled Fascism in the Netherlands
On November 6 and 7, fascist goons from Maccabi Tel Aviv, an Israeli professional football club, descended on the streets of Amsterdam, chanting proudly about murdered children in Gaza while assaulting local houses, passers-by, and taxi drivers that appeared pro-Palestinian or Arab.
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Einstein’s Socialism
John Bellamy Foster describes Einstein’s radical political commitments, including his efforts in relation to the founding of Brandeis University, his role in the Henry Wallace campaign, and his seminal essay “Why Socialism?”
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Dossier no. 82: How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa
In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.
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An Outside View of the US 2024 Presidential Election
Deborah Veneziale provides a useful analysis of the 2024 US elections.
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Nursery rhymes and politics: Berlin Bulletin No. 229, November 16, 2024
Billions were spent both on aid to the Zelensky government…as an urgent defense necessity to counter “the Russian threat.” This threat has appeared and reappeared in Germany in 1914, the 1930s, after 1945 and now again, louder than ever, with similar barked Prussian commands: “Achtung! Die Russen kommen!” as dangerously false as ever, and often followed by eastward expansion, invasion and, far too often, catastrophe, with atomic annihilation an added danger this time around.
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The Kazan summit of BRICS
The BRICS declaration presumes that the international institutions in their current state are flawed because they are dominated by imperialist countries and are not representative enough; but they are flawed because their very essence is flawed, no matter how they are governed.
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Prioritising anti-U.S. imperialism, Maduro’s Venezuela and the complexities of critical solidarity: An interview with Steve Ellner
Steve Ellner: “The basic contradiction of capitalism is at the point of production, the contradiction between the interests of the working class and those of capitalists.”
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Boots and Boosts: Berlin Bulletin No. 228, November 28, 2024
While so many in the world hold their breath for Harris or Trump it would also be wise to keep an eye on Germany. A sharp eye!
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John Bellamy Foster Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”
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“Why do you fear my way so much?”
Professor Saibaba’s life, or rather, Sai’s life, for that is what his friends called him, cannot be adequately understood without situating him in an authentic history and “present as history” of the Indian society of which he was a part.
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Dossier no. 81: The Twentieth Century, the Global South, and China’s historical position
Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China.