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Peace and development are better than austerity and war: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
That is the choice: iron or peace, bullets or development.
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What impels modern society toward ever more massive waste
Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital’s incessant drive to expand involves overcoming two interlocking contradictions.
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Israeli teenagers burning draft orders in Central Tel-Aviv
Dozens of Israeli teenagers burned at Habima Square in Central Tel-Aviv on Tuesday, July 15, their draft orders during a demonstration, refusing to serve in the Israeli army in protest against war and genocide in Gaza. They claimed, “We won’t take part in genocide” and “won’t serve apartheid, occupation and war crimes.”
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“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories”: The Cuban Revolution, social vulnerability, and revolutionary ethics.
In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”
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‘Media and corporate power structures see genuine Democracy as a terrible danger’
CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.
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Climate denial paved the way for the Texas flooding
Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
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Ellen Meiksins Wood facts for kids
Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.
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Lula to Trump: If you charge us 50%, we’ll charge you 50%. Brazil must be respected!
The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Using false statistics to claim ‘zero poverty’ helps nobody
The information on increase in hunger is far more direct and based on readily verifiable statistics, than are the official calculations of poverty.
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What is BRICS and where is it going?
How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.
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Collaborators like Al Sharpton can’t assist Zohran Mamdani with circumventing pigmentation politics and the Black misleadership class…but principled Black radical organizing can
Zohran Mamdani’s victory rattled NYC’s political elite. But to win Black voters and defeat the Democrat machine, he must reject Al Sharpton’s co-optation and align with radical Black organizers.
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John Bellamy Foster facts for kids
John Foster’s early research looked at how money and power work. He studied how big companies grow and affect the economy. His first book, The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism, explored these ideas.
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Trump escalates Ukraine war-Putin acknowledges reality is turning out to be Marxist
By Russian as well as Anglo-American neurological and psychiatric standards, this man is a certifiable maniac.
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The ‘economy of genocide’ Report: A reckoning beyond rhetoric
Albanese’s ‘Economy of Genocide’ is far more than an academic exercise or a mere moral statement in a world whose collective conscience is being brutally tested in Gaza.
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The largest wealth heist in U.S. history: Trump’s bill sacrifices lives for billionaires
We’re about to see the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history. It’s also going to be the largest cut to health care in the history of the U.S. The “Big Bill” includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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A new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The “Atomic Bowl”
A new documentary that began airing on PBS this month (The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today) highlights one of the most surreal stories from World War II.
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Harry Magdoff facts for kids
When he was 15, in 1929, Harry found a book by Karl Marx in a used-book store. He said reading it “blew his mind.”
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Uber drivers have unionized for the first time in Canada
UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.
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Book Review: Calling the world to account for the Gaza genocide
Haidar Eid’s “Banging on the Walls of the Tank” reveals a disturbing but irrefutable reality: the world has abandoned the Palestinian people to be annihilated as a people in the most calculated and brutal fashion possible.
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UNRWA says Israel turning Gaza into graveyard of starving children
Israel is engineering a “cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says, as the world body reports that since May, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.