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Reports on heat waves and flooding usually neglect to explain why they’re happening: Study
This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash floods and deadly heatwaves across the U.S.
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Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22
Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.
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On The Rewriting of History
[Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.
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Renewable transition or global U.S. empire? You can’t have both
There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place.
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Imperialism comes to Haiti with a Black face
The first wave of UN-backed Kenyan police officers has arrived in Haiti with around 400 landing in Port-au-Prince.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 6): China’s livestock revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.
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There is no such thing as a small nuclear war: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2024)
Recent announcements by the U.S. and NATO threaten to escalate the conflict in Ukraine and create the most dangerous threat to world peace since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Land back at Barnhart
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.
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Parole and probation rules limit travel. That can be complicated for people seeking abortions.
More than half of the 800,000 women under community supervision live in states with abortion restrictions, making the path to access more difficult—or impossible.
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Ten Holocaust survivors condemn Israel’s Gaza genocide
Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.
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Julian Assange–from Belmarsh to freedom at last
At long last the WikiLeaks founder is free. For all those who care about freedom of speech it’s time to celebrate, writes TIM DAWSON of the International Federation of Journalists.
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Canada’s militarization of the Arctic threatens Indigenous communities and the climate
New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.
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‘These stores are unhealthy for our communities’
CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion
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Cuba tells the United States there is only one Cuba
Far from being a sign of the U.S. government softening its economic and financial siege on Cuba and contributing to help Cuba’s private sector, this new policy attempts to destroy the core of the ideological makeup of Cuban socialism.
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How Karl Marx influenced Abraham Lincoln and his position on slavery & labor
If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
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The passing of a troublemaker
Frank Emspak, anti-war activist and labor leader, spent his life advancing workers’ rights.
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Why academic scholarship on Israel and Palestine threatens western elites
No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus
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An American flag, a pencil sharpener−and the 10 Commandments: Louisiana’s law to mandate biblical displays in classrooms is the latest to push limits of religion in public schools
Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools.
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Three lessons I learned on my visit to Cuba
The U.S. blockade on Cuba, in place since the 1960s, is an act of economic warfare.
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Current and former U.S. military personnel build a movement for Palestine within their ranks
On February 25, U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell became the first active duty U.S. soldier to earn the title of “martyr” among oppressed people worldwide.