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Dying by killing: U.S. and its manifest destiny
The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (U.S.) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk.
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Nestlé’s blatant misconduct shows us the darkness of capitalism
From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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‘We’ve never been closer to nuclear catastrophe’: Activist Helen Caldicott
Australian anti-war and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.
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Is the trip of the secretary general of NATO aimed to instigate the creation of the Asian version of NATO?
The high-ranking chief of the military organization which turned Ukraine into a theatre of proxy war is flying into the Asia-Pacific region of the eastern hemisphere across the sea and land, which is not even part of its operational sphere. This fact itself gives rise to concern.
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Value, price, and inflation: Immediate and structural causes
Every working person is keenly aware that prices are up.
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“The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left”
Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.
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Capitalism and the Climate Collapse! Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet!
In this episode of his “Thinking Out Loud” series, Double D analyzes an interview with John Bellamy Foster, where he discusses his new book, ‘Capitalism in the Anthropocene’, and his arguments for how capitalism is the driving force behind climate change
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It was the workers who brought us democracy, and it will be the workers who establish a deeper democracy yet: The Fourth Newsletter (2023)
Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering.
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Red Traces, Part 1: Cave paintings and primitive communism
Sean Ledwith begins a new monthly series that explores how the Marxist tradition seeks to explain the cultural peaks of human history.
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Media in the digital age
The dramatic changes in the technology of mass communications should be brought in line with the larger goals of humanity and a more humane society.
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‘Climate Justice in So-Called Canada’
Indigenous rights and sovereignty must be at the centre of our collective efforts to rescue a habitable planet.
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The lawsuit that could freeze speech against billionaires
A gas mogul’s case against Beto O’Rourke could deter candidates from ever talking about money in politics.
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The abuse of the concept of “populism”
ALL regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”.
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How not to deal with a debt crisis
Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.
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Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years
According to a new report published by Oxfam, the richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report today. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.
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Cuba assumes the head of the G-77 at a critical time
On January 12, Cuba took the presidency of the G77+China for the first time in history after being elected in September 2022 during the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
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The framework convention on climate is dead. Now what?
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change went into effect in March 1994. Yet, of the twenty-seven meetings that the UNFCCC has held to date, the most recent one, in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, was the most inconsequential.
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New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
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A Review of Derek R. Ford’s ‘Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle’
History doesn’t happen because a small group of people share a complete political identity; it happens because masses of people shed their timidity, risk their reputations, livings, freedom, and lives, and let the actuality of revolution guide their every move.
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Socialism is not a Utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity: The First Newsletter (2023)
In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development.