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Trump is cutting the last threads of the tattered cloth of ‘the rules-based international order’
What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the US back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere?
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Mary and her monster
Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.
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‘The rich are on course to destroy all our lives’
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.
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BRICS grows, adding Indonesia as member: World’s 4th most populous country, 7th biggest economy
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. They make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and half the world population.
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Domenico Losurdo: “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”
Thought-provoking and polemical as ever, the recent publication of Domenico Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, finally provides English readers with access to the prolific Italian philosopher and militant’s penultimate book.
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‘The Fire Boom’
In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.
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Dr Victor Frankenstein disavows his monster: The Second Newsletter (2025)
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
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The rule of the oligarchs and machines is here
2025 is set to be the ‘break-out year’ for artificial intelligence.
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Twisting the terrorism narrative
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
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Overshoot and the 1.5- degree celsius warming target
How much above this warming target and for how long overshoot persists will determine the likelihood of emergence of dangerous tipping points in the climate system.
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Disaster Nationalism is the new fascism
Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.
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The case against ‘Western’ Marxism
RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.
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The scientific pain of climate change: Shifting narratives of acceptance and avoidance in climatology
Any time we use to debunk the irrational ideological arguments of privileged people in privileged societies is time lost for serious exploration for how to respond to reality.
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BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it’s half of world population, 41% of global economy
BRICS keeps expanding, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. It now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It’s an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals.
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Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 1936-2024
Several obituaries of Amiya Kumar Bagchi have appeared since his death on November 28, covering his remarkable achievements.
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The tears of our children: The First Newsletter (2025)
A study came out in December that made me cry.
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Trump’s threat of a tariff wall
All this however is still in the realm of mere possibilities; what is more certain is the 10 per cent tax on global imports and the 60 per cent tax on imports from China.
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Western Marxism, anti-communism and imperialism
Since the 1990s, Western Marxists have replaced imperialism with global capitalism that is untethered to Western imperialism. Western Marxists have also deemed socialist projects as a betrayal of their utopian views rooted in the Hegelian “purity fetish.”
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26 climate-fueled extreme weather events killed at least 3,700 people in 2024: Report
“This exceptional year of extreme weather shows how dangerous life has already become… and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible.”
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Resist, my people, resist: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2024)
With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle; may it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken.