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Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too
U.S. government programs for migrants who cross the country’s southern border are punitive and disjointed.
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Apple warns of flaw that invites hackers into iPhones, iPads, Macs
Apple releases security patches to fix a vulnerability that hackers may be taking advantage of.
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Sleeping at the wheel: The Uber Files, the media, and the coup against labor rights
The recent reporting on the Uber Files—a series of 124,000 communications, dated from 2013 until 2017, that Mark McGann, one of Uber’s top lobbyists, leaked to The Guardian—has shed light on the company’s strategies to gain global prominence during its nascent years.
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Who is Mick Lynch?
The rail workers’ leader offers the most visible opposition to Britain’s Tory government.
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Sanctions and the decline of the dollar
The hegemony of the U.S. dollar was based on the fact that the world’s wealth-holders considered it to be “as good as gold”, even when it was no longer officially convertible to gold at a fixed rate, as it had been under the Bretton Woods system, after the collapse of that system.
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When people want housing in India, they build it: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2022)
It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action.
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Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
The appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery.
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Top Biden official: ‘U.S. would overthrow Colombia’s new left-wing president 40 years ago’
Biden’s top Latin America advisor Juan González threateningly said of Colombia’s new left-wing president, “40 years ago, the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro” and “sabotage his government.”
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The Supreme Court: working hard to make a business-friendly America
President Calvin Coolidge, in a January 1925 speech to newspaper editors, asserted that “the chief business of the American people is business.” The claim, although far from true, did capture the short-lived success of business leaders in structuring the country’s social institutions for the benefit of the wealthy.
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Poland says Ukraine must recognise Bandera’s genocide during WWII
Ukraine must acknowledge the genocide of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in World War II, a Polish official says.
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Mexican drought spurs a South Texas water crisis
Reservoirs in the Rio Grande Valley are running dry—sparking emergency water conservation measures.
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Lawfare as an imperialist weapon: the case of the Venezuelan plane
The subject relayed in the title is becoming more and more complicated. The Argentinian “justice” system, through the actions of the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Villena, and Federal Attorney Cecilia Incardona, is determined to retain the EMTRASUR plane and its crew in Argentina even at the price of violating the fundamentals of law (such as the presumption of innocence) to comply with the seizure order issued by U.S. authorities.
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Cuba strides ahead in research of new Alzheimer’s treatment
Cuban scientists have announced the next stage of research on NeuralCIM, a neuroprotective drug for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
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Amnesty International finishes discrediting itself by calling for an audit of its report on Ukrainian war crimes
On 4 August 2022, Amnesty International published a report denouncing the tactics of the Ukrainian army that endangered civilians, in other words, Ukrainian war crimes (even if AI does not dare to call a spade a spade)
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Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: U.S. domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40%
The U.S. publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by U.S. customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under U.S. anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA).
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The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’ mines
The use of PFM-1 explosives against civilians is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions—but this evidently isn’t stopping Ukraine.
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Kaiser clinicians strike against ‘separate and unequal’ mental health care
Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike.
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Tackling the housing crisis with public power
Rhode Island is using COVID stimulus money to become a public housing developer — a monumental first step towards building a just housing delivery system.
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62% of Americans worried about paying rent in 2023
A June poll reveals American citizens’ anxieties on paying for housing in the coming year.
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With trumpian claims of cheating, Starbucks demands halt to union elections
“Unfortunately, it’s now in vogue for the losers of some elections nationwide to attempt to reverse elections by any means they think are necessary,” said Starbucks Workers United.