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Ballots and bias: How the press framed Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections
Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media’s biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela’s May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.
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‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’
CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
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A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability
Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.
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Pizza goeth before a ball? Changes in Americans’ eating habits foretell a deep recession
In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.
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Mexico holds historic judicial elections amongst the howls of the corporate media
Under Trump the U.S. is moving towards the centralization of power in the executive branch while its Southern neighbor, despite the flaws, is going in an opposite direction.
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ESSAY: ‘The Intellectual Origins of Imperialism and Zionism’, Edward Said, 1977
The zionist terrorist entity does not act alone. Over the 600 days of the genocide of the Palestinians, the United States has shipped 800 planeloads, carrying more than 90,000 tons of missiles, bombs, and military equipment, to the zionist entity.
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Billions ripped from minority-owned firms under Trump
The Trump administration is dismantling the very programs created to correct generations of systemic racism and economic exclusion—programs that helped level the playing field for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and women entrepreneurs.
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Israeli academics issue open letter condemning Gaza genocide
The letter—addressed to the Association of University Heads in Israel, the Board of Academic Public Colleges, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Academics for Israeli Democracy—is a reaction to the launching of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.
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Economics and the concept of progress
THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.
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‘The HHS Report was put out to give cover to oppose transgender healthcare’
CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.
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Immigration as a political weapon
Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the U.S. to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested since the start of the state of exception, an emergency measure that has been renewed 36 times by the National Assembly since its promulgation in March 2022.
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The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.
Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.
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Wes Anderson takes on Western Imperialism: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Review
This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.
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Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’
Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.
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Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore
Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.
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America is a scam
Donald Trump is many things: a racist, an authoritarian, a rapist… but what he is, and has always been, above all and from the very start, is a scammer.
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Charles Rangel and the end of Black politics
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
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Alberta gov’t seeks to ban books to distract from scandals
Facing an ongoing corruption scandal and rising measles cases, clearly the Alberta government is desperate for a distraction.
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Getting to Medicare for All
There are a million ways to slice and dice both a universal Medicare plan and also the transition, which will pose real problems. However, it is important any plan be comprehensive. That doesn’t mean it has to cover the plastic surgery needed to give people the Mar-a-Lago look, but it does need to cover areas like dental, vision, and hearing, which are excluded from traditional Medicare.
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Gaza’s hospitals ARE the target
We’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.