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Tulsi Gabbard vs Google goliath
Tulsi Gabbard was the most-searched person on Google during the first debateâso the giant corporation shut down her account.
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Imagining a free Palestine should be commonplaceâthatâs why I wrote the novel ‘Siegebreakers’
The siege of Gaza is crushing the people who live under it, and it is crushing all of our imaginations.
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Crisis, which crisis? climate change and capitalism
The essays compiled in this special issue of Key Words address the theme of crisis. But which crisis?
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Detention camps are concentration camps
In June it was finally settled, the short-term detention centers run by the U.S. Border Patrol wereâquite technicallyâconcentration camps. While they are not the extermination camps of the Holocaust, the rounding up and mass incarceration of people who havenât seen a judge fits the definition exactly, according to expert Andrea Pitzer. The legal definition of concentration camps are âplaces of forced relocation of civilians into detention on the basis of group identity.â
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Donât believe the hype about the ârules-based orderâ, capitalism is perpetual war
Why is war, or the threat of it, a permanent feature of our society? The most common answers point to contingenciesâthe psychology of particular world leaders, for example, or the specific gains to a company to be made from a conflict. Alternatively, they rely on universal claims that religion causes eternal strife or that conflict is part of our human nature.
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NATOâs China Double-Think by Finian Cunningham + Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China by Ellen Brown
We cannot win a currency war by competitive currency devaluations that trigger a ârace to the bottom,â and we cannot win a trade war by competitive trade barriers that simply cut us off from the benefits of cooperative trade. More favorable to our interests and values than warring with our trading partners would be to cooperate in sharing solutions, including banking and credit solutions.
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Trumpâs disavowal of white supremacy makes a mockery of antiracismâbut so does the rest of the political establishment
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater.
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Venezuela food shipment destined for Venezuela seized due to U.S. blockade
The ship was seized in the Panama canal according to the Venezuela government.
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Disablement, oppression, and political economy
It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society.
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American exceptionalism = mass murder
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right.
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More British complicity exposed in latest âCIA Torture Unredactedâ report
The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, âblack sitesâ and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim reading. This article is made up of a very brief set of extracts from the just-released CIA Torture Unredacted report.
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There must be bones under the paved street
On 6 August 1945, the United States military dropped a bomb that contained 64kg of uranium-235 over the city of Hiroshima (Japan). The bomb took just over 44 seconds to fall from 9,400 metres and detonated 580 metres above the Shima Surgical Clinic. Over 80,000 people died instantly. This was the first use of the nuclear bomb.
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In Venezuela, social, popular and communal unity is not an illusion
The Corriente Revolucionaria BolĂvar y Zamora interviewed Ăngel Prado, the spokesperson of the Socialist Commune El Maizal, a campesino organization dedicated to building socialism at the grassroots level in Venezuela.
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NPR shreds ethics handbook to normalize regime change in Venezuela
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the U.S. terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua.
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The Squad vs. Trump and Pelosi
In the past couple weeks, President Trump has gone on a racist, red-baiting rampage against four congresswomen elected in 2018. The four women of colorâAlexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressleyâare now collectively known in the media as the âsquad.â
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Policing the borders of suffering
Both mainstream Jewish institutions and non-Jewish liberal and conservative commentators took it upon themselves to censure Ocasio-Cortezâs use of âconcentration camps,â with Rep. Liz Cheney accusing the freshman representative of âdemean[ing]â the memory of those who died in the Holocaust.
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Pushing out the Border: How the U.S. is waging a global war on migration
A PRINCIPAL GOAL of the Trump administrationâs policy at the U.S.-Mexico border âand in Central America, considered of late only in relation to that border-has been to get other governments to handle the increase in migrants seeking to enter the United States.
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Milibandâs masterpiece
Fifty years after it was published, The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of government.
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The end of the INF treaty is a blow to global disarmament
On August 2, the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was formalized. The treaty signed in 1987 had led to the destruction of over 2,600 missiles by the U.S. and Russia
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Arctic fires: âYou have to go to a different planet to find a more persistent typeâ
Hereâs a sentence for you: The Arctic is burning. Yes, that Arcticâthe traditionally cold and wet one, large swaths of which are being consumed by an astonishing number of wildfires, from Russia to Greenland to Alaska.