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Corbyn calls for global movement against inequality, offers support to Latin America’s left
In an interview with Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Jeremy Corbyn said international efforts challenging economic injustice and inequality is needed.
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Did post-Soviet Russians drink themselves to death?
Although initially obscured by The Economist, among others, the sudden and unprecedented increase in Russian adult male mortality during 1992-1994 is no longer denied. Instead, the debate is now over why?
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Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets
The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovanni titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.
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The lesson of Brazil
The catastrophe–expected and foreseeable–has happened. This immense country, with its 200 million inhabitants, is now in darkness. At best, it will take a decade or two to emerge.
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Faculty Interview: Alyssa Battistoni on ecofeminism and xenofeminism
In the West, since at least the myth of Gaea, the earth has been seen as something feminine. For ecofeminists, the linkage has had profound, and malign, consequences for our treatment both of nature and of women.
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History made as minorities elected to Congress
An election of “firsts:” Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, African-Americans and Native Americans score seats in the House and Senate.
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This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
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Trump’s rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza
The intent behind Trump’s new rules of engagement and considerable militarization of the U.S. border appears to be greenlighting the U.S. military to function as an IDF-style military police force whenever the next “threat” emerges, whether it be “foreign invaders” or “internal enemies.”
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U.S. Midterms: Native Americans unyielding battle against voter suppression
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that requires North Dakota voters to provide an I.D. with a residential address. The ruling has effectively made the process to vote next to impossible for Native Americans, who by-and-large do not have recognized addresses–but that’s not stopping them.
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Never have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for so long
Those aren’t my words. The quotation that forms the title of this post is from a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis blog post.
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With “Troika of Tyranny,” Bolton’s long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off
Bolton’s new “Troika of Tyranny” speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administration’s Latin America policy.
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Brazil: Workers’ Party challenges political persecution decree
Social movements and political opposition fear Temer’s security decree will be used to persecute left-wing groups.
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Geoengineering as dispossession
The Political Economy of Land Use in an Era of Climate Urgency.
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Is the answer really ‘in our genes’?
RICHARD DAWKINS, author of one of the best known texts on human nature, The Selfish Gene, declares we are “machines created by our genes”–that “[w]e are survival machines–robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”
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Fascism is real, but the “resistance” is mostly fake
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats.
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Corporate concentration, intellectual property rights, and U.S. public policy
Dominant corporations have dramatically increased their market power in the U.S. over the last decades, allowing them to boost their profits and, by extension, political power. And, although rarely acknowledged by the media, this trend owes much to the way public policy has promoted corporate intellectual property rights at the public expense.
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Environmental activists rebel against government’s climate inaction
15 arrested as hundreds take part in civil disobedience outside Parliament
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Did fake news win the Brazilian election?
Bolsonaro’s rise to power came with a welter of misinformation, rumour and lies. What role did ‘fake news’ play in the far right leader’s victory?
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Geoengineering and environmental capitalism
If, as history shows, fantasies of weather and climate control have chiefly served commercial and military interests, why should we expect the future to be different?
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Neoliberalism in the age of pedagogical terrorism
We need individuals and social movements willing to disturb the normalization of a fascist politics, oppose racist, sexist, and neoliberal orthodoxy.