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Sweden is giving Elon Musk a taste of union strength
Let’s hope Swedish workers win and workers in all countries where Tesla operates take note and act accordingly.
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Israel’s onslaught drags U.S. Jewish life into the abyss
The Jewish establishment has been consigned to the support of genocide, and it has accepted that role eagerly. The effect on Judaism of this moral collapse is unfathomable.
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Cop28: Elite politics won’t save the planet
If you’re a monarch, president or oil industry big shot the floor is yours at Cop28—there’s little to no input from those that actually feel the effects of climate change, warns RICHARD HEBBERT
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‘Push’ notifications: A secret spying frontier
In this piece, Kit Klarenberg provides valuable insight into how push notifications are being used by governments to spy on users.
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A scientist’s warning on how climate change is rooted in violence
The education system kills innate curiosity and hinders the development of scientific attitude and is thus conducive for the philosophy of othering. Even this lopsided knowledge is not available to all. Thus, people become oblivious to the universality of humankind and species’ interdependence.
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The Transit Equity Movement wins their biggest Zero Fare victory yet
A racial justice-focused community organizing group led the charge for Albuquerque’s free bus fare policy.
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Israel committing “horrific crimes” against starving civilians in Gaza
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called for an “urgent international investigation” into field executions, torture and threats of rape against Palestinians by Israeli ground forces in Gaza.
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UK Special Forces secretly operated in Ukraine, says Polish journalist
Special forces operators of UK were embedded with Ukrainian troops in the early days of the conflict, Declassified UK reported on Wednesday, citing the newly published book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
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Black People won’t be silenced about Israel
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement.
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‘Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health’ – book review
Pharmanomics is an important book that shows how Big Pharma’s profit seeking damages health care globally, but the solution lies outside the current system, argues John Clarke
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza—our political class only pays lip service to human rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
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COINTELPRO political prisoner Edward Poindexter dies in Nebraska prison after 53 years serving life sentence following unfair trial
Edward Poindexter, 79, died on December 7, 2023 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary serving a life sentence for the murder of Omaha police officer Larry Minard.
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The attack against the freedom to read and what to do about it
During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality.
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How Israel undermined the prisoner exchange by widening the definition of ‘security prisoners’
Israel undermined the prisoner exchange with Hamas by widening the definition of “security prisoners” to include those held for little more than social media posts.
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Guterres invokes ‘most powerful tool’ Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire
Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on the Security Council to “press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and unite in a call for a full humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants.
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Israeli politician calls for captured Palestinians to be ‘buried alive’
Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as ‘subhuman’ and invokes biblical reference.
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Pitfalls of export-led growth
THE wisdom of pursuing a strategy of export-led growth has been discussed among development economists for at least half a century, ever since the so-called East Asian “miracle” started to be contrasted with the comparatively sluggish growth experience of countries like India that were pursuing, in the World Bank’s language, an “inward looking” development strategy.
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Your enemies destroyed one Palestine; my wounds populated many Palestines: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2023)
The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.
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COP28: Where fossil fuel industries go to gloat
Call it a drugs summit for narcotics distributors promoting clean-living; a convention for casino moguls promising to aid problem gamblers. The list of wicked analogies is endless.
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How Israel uses AI genocide programme to obliterate Gaza
According to whistleblowers, Israel is using an AI system to generate targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs.