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How a giant corporate cover-up poisoned the planet—and everyone on it
In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.
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Democratic involution
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
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The presence of evil
I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.
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Wang Yi: The historic step from peaceful coexistence to a shared future for humanity
With China having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, on July 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi published an important article outlining the historical progression from the Five Principles to President Xi Jinping’s vision of a shared future for humanity and their interrelationship of continuity, inheritance, application and development.
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The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2024)
From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.
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The profile of environmental collapse–forest fires tell the story
Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.
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Labour versus International law
The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
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Netanyahu’s speech was as American as it gets
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
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Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
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The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value
Every year, Pew Research publishes a study on the U.S. population’s political priorities.
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China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups
BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.
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More poverty for the poor
Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.
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American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza says IDF snipers shoot toddlers
‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake,’ said Dr. Mark Perlmutter.
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Florida’s Coral Reef is dead—now what?
The damage to Florida’s coral reef is irreversible, but that doesn’t mean we can give up fighting for it.
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The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists
Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.
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Loss of empire, loss of lucidity
As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.
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U.S. media downplays and ignores ICJ ruling declaring Israeli occupation illegal
The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.
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Civil war in Donbass 10 years on
July 1st marked the 10th anniversary of a brutal resumption of hostilities in the Donbass civil war.
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Chavistas warn about escalation of media warfare against Venezuela’s elections (+Machado)
The Venezuelan deputy minister for anti-blockade policies, William Castillo, has warned that now that there are ten days before the presidential elections, international media is intensifying its media warfare against Chavismo and Venezuela.
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Just Stop Oil vows to continue civil resistance after activists jailed for 21 years over Zoom call
Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.