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ACTION ALERT: Trump rules remain at FCC as Democrats cave to Big Cable, Fox News
Remember Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer Trump put in charge of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)? When he gutted net neutrality rules and kneecapped the agency’s ability to regulate telecom monopolies, voters from across the political spectrum were outraged. The internet erupted in protest.
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U.S. government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs
The U.S. Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB’s loans went to venture capitalist and private equity firms.
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The secret of the failure of liberation–a tribute and celebration of Amilcar Cabral fifty years on
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, over the next four weeks, ROAPE will be re-posting a collection of essays paying tribute to Cabral. The collection was first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, and reflects on the extraordinary achievements of Cabral and his organisation PAIGC (the Partido Africano de Indendencia de Guine e Cabo Verde).
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Bolivia: Electric powerhouse of Latin America
For the first time in Bolivia’s history, the country is now an exporter of electricity.
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War buildup: Biden’s $1 trillion military budget
The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for military operations in Ukraine takes that figure to more than $950 billion.
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Biden approves huge oil extraction project in Alaska
In an action that is a flat reversal of his election campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands,” President Joe Biden decided Monday to approve an $8 billion oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, to be operated by ConocoPhillips.
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Peace rallies held in Washington DC to protest U.S. militarism
The rally coincides with the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
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It’s a new day in the United Auto Workers
The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an end. Reformer Shawn Fain is set to be the winner in the runoff for the UAW presidency.
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I am a trans Texan
A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.
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The brouhaha of war: soundscapes of the invasion of Iraq, twenty years on
Musicians around the world depicted and resisted the 2003 invasion of Iraq in other ways, yet others scraped the barrel of base, chauvinistic interests to sing for the imperialists. Sound was a partisan weapon.
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Remembering Rachel Corrie twenty years on
Rachel Corrie, an American Palestine-solidarity activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer twenty years ago this month. She was murdered by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while attempting to defend a Palestinian home from demolition in Rafah, a city in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Bush-era neocons should shut the fuck up about Iraq (and everything else)
David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war.
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A sane voice amidst the madness
Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia, writes Joe Lauria.
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The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies
Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the U.S., is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing. I remembered his words while reading the recent startling headlines that China has become the world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies evaluated by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
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Insect Apocalypse in the Anthropocene, Part 2
The world’s insects are among the principal victims of capitalist agricultural concentration.
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Yes, the U.S. gov’t did bailout the banks. What would a people’s bailout look like?
The U.S. is divesting from working people and investing in banks and venture capitalists, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Canada’s ‘China syndrome’
The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.
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This is how police and courts steal from poor people
I need to report a theft. Nassau County law enforcement stole $500 from my friend, Sylvester “Sonny” Jackson.
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From Georgetown to Langley: The controversial connection between a prestigious university and the CIA
If you have ever wondered, “where do America’s spies come from?” the answer is quite possibly the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University.
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International Women’s Alliance uplifts militant grassroots struggles in first U.S.-based conference
Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of a worldwide grassroots women’s network called the International Women’s Alliance, as well as help strengthen its fledgling U.S. chapter.