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Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts
Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.
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I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2022)
On April 19, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook, which forecasted a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. ‘For 2022, inflation is projected at 5.7 percent in advanced economies and 8.7 percent in emerging market and developing economies–1.8 and 2.8 percentage points higher than projected in… January.’
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Amazon Labor Union and the awakening of the American working class
The United States is the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. Socialism cannot ultimately achieve victory without the success of the American working class. The struggles we are seeing now are just the beginning of the awakening of this colossus that will change the course of history.
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Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population
Anthropologists, who have always been curious about the lives of people outside Europe and outside wage-labor, have good reason to be interested in the concept of the surplus population.
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Peace Movement needs to demand dismantling of NATO
NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire.
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Janez Jansa’s right-wing govt loses to newly formed Freedom Movement in Slovenia
The outgoing right-wing coalition government led by Janez Jansa had faced widespread protests from civil society for its unpopular anti-worker and authoritarian policies.
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Abdala, with three doses, demonstrates 92.28% efficacy
Communist Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on behalf of Cuba, congratulates researchers who in 13 months achieved a global milestone.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists continue to seize on Russia’s war in Ukraine to push long-term interests
The unfolding crisis is now a common—and effective—talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
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Eva Bartlett reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine forces used scorched earth tactics”
Yes, there is destruction, that’s what happens when Ukrainian forces, and Nazis, embed in residential areas & occupy apartment buildings. It isn’t Raqqa, and if you aren’t aware of the U.S. illegal coalition in Syria’s full destruction of Raqqa, look that up.
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Race and the great American death divide
It is not surprising that a settler colonial state would practice racism for centuries or that race would be the major factor determining who lives and who dies.
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The U.S. bubble of pretend
The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
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Reform vs Revolution in Russia 1917
In October 1917, revolutionary Russian workers, supported by millions of peasants and soldiers, succeeded in overthrowing capitalist rule and replacing it with their own democratic structures of power.
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U.S. media are lying about Russian atrocities in Mariupol, says embedded reporter at Ground Zero
[This article is written by a reporter embedded in Ukraine with the Russian army. We believe that if people want to understand the war in Ukraine, they need to read widely about it, from different perspectives, including the Russian one, to try and discern the truth about what is going on for themselves.—Editors]
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Pixels and mortar: the politics of video game worldbuilding
With the worlds of architecture and video games becoming increasingly intertwined, Gerry Hart examines how video games communicate through their design.
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Iran makes gains as Israel, Turkey test Moscow’s limits on Ukraine
Under pressure to side with the west on Ukraine, Israel and Turkey risk falling out with Russia–which will benefit Iran in the long-term.
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Disability rights and human rights — they affect ALL of us
Language matters, and in the case of people with disabilities, it matters a lot. Ableism, exclusion, and misconceptions are held up by a foundation of words that are still abundant in U.S. society.
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The dream of a Jewish state, and the nightmare of its reality
It is not beyond my comprehension to understand the policies of the Israeli government in light of Jewish history under the Nazis. We know Jews have suffered and have been victims. Is it that mentality behind the walls, the indescribable destruction, loss of land, houses, deaths, the decrepit prisons of torture? Are Jews really still victims of paranoia and fear?
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Zelenskymania and Switzerland’s ruined image
Background and foreground of the war in Ukraine.
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War it is – and escalation is coming
‘War is war’, and this war is set to escalate.
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Sanders warns against massive congressional bailout for Bezos space company
“At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck,” the Vermont senator wrote, “should we really be providing a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout for Bezos to fuel his space hobby?”