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Where flowers find no peace enough to grow: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
On 13 July 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a landmark resolution on the prevalence of racism and for the creation of an independent mechanism made up of three experts to investigate the root cause of deeply embedded racism and intolerance.
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New York Times advises China on COVID-19: abandon success, try failure
Shielding the Western elite from justified rage.
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Engels and entropy
When it comes to rejecting the Second Law of Thermodynamics, only fools would rush in where Engels feared to tread.
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Borders, Blackness, and Empire
The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti.
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Clear away the hype: the U.S. and Australia signed a nuclear arms deal, simple as that
The AUKUS despite being coined a security partnership, is a nuclear arms deal aimed at increasing pressure against China and should be cause for concern.
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Australia’s Defence Policy explained
Australia’s Defence Policy explained – Utopia
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence arms race
As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
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‘From Production to Livelihood – Raymond Williams on Ecosocialism’: Part 3
In ‘Socialism and Ecology’ and ‘Ecology and the Labour Movement’, Raymond Williams is arguing the case for a political convergence. Socialism and the labour movement on the one hand, and the ecological or environmental movement on the other, should join forces and both be transformed in the process.
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Rooftop solar to roll out on China’s public buildings
The latest county-level trials could boost rooftop solar power generation over the next five years but new business models are needed to make them successful.
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The Empire’s last stand
The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes.
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Call for a Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty
The scientific consensus is clear that human activities are primarily responsible for global climate change, and that the climate crisis now represents the greatest threat to human civilization and nature.
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The new Australia, UK, and U.S. nuclear submarine announcement: a terrible decision for the nonproliferation regime
Named AUKUS, the partnership was announced together with a bombshell decision: The United States and UK will transfer naval nuclear-propulsion technology to Australia.
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The revenge of white colonialism motivates the AUKUS alliance against China
The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have formed an alliance called “AUKUS” to create, in the words of Australia PM Scott Morrison, “a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.”
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Progressive taxation for our times
As developing countries struggle to cope with the pandemic, they risk being set back further by restrictive fiscal policies. These were imposed by rich countries who no longer practice them if they ever did. Instead, the global South urgently needs bold policies to ensure adequate relief, recovery and reform.
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Indigenous People of Brazil fight for their future
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted to destroy: the Indigenous people and the Amazon rainforest, respectively.
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Paulo Freire’s centennial: Political pedagogy for revolutionary organizations
All revolutionary processes are educational.
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Big Pharma and vaccine apartheid
The webinar on ‘Vaccine Imperialism: Scientific Knowledge, Capacity and Production in Africa’ which took place on 5 August 5, 2021, was organized by the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) in partnership with the Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa).
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China and the power of healing
COVID-19 is the major public health emergency witnessed by human history in recent times. Covid has put humanity to a new test and shaped our World from individual new norms to a new world order.
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Ruckus over AUKUS isn’t an edifying sight
The diplomatic fallout from the new security agreement between the Australia, United Kingdom and the United States [AUKUS] is just about beginning. The debris will take time to clean up. Might there be some lasting damage?
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David Graeber’s real contribution to Occupy Wall Street wasn’t a phrase – it was a process
He showed us consensus-based politics actually works.