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Cities must be adapted for climate change
In the past few years, whole towns have been wiped out by fire and flood, suburbs have been inundated by floodwaters or storm surges in Sydney and Melbourne, and extreme heat is putting more people in hospitals.
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Science and Freedom: Toward a new revolutionary epistemology
Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”
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NATO SUMMIT: Collectively losing their minds
Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.
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Opposing the creation of NATO to wage war with Russia: W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1949 speech to Congress
In 1949, W.E.B. Du Bois testified before Congress to protest against a bill that would fund the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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The Summit of the Future
The core idea of the Summit of the Future is that humanity is facing a set of unprecedented challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation.
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Copernicus: June 2024 marks 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables.
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To best understand inequality, think class, not generation
Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.
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Activists to protest NATO Summit in Washington
NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.
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Reimagining lost visual archives of Black and Indigenous resistance
How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?
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Tobacco companies are at it again
Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.
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Emissions increase as climate disaster intensifies
CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.
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‘Principles and Methods of a Marxist Kunstwissenschaft—Attempt at an Outline’
It is not easy to explain in such a limited space which philosophical, methodological, and practical features characterize the study of Kunstwissenschaft that arose from the insights won by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and were enriched by Vladimir Lenin, as well as many other scholars and revolutionaries.
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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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The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?
Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts—and they overlap more than you’d think.
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‘These stores are unhealthy for our communities’
CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion
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Government debt is symptom, not cause
Developing country governments are being blamed for irresponsibly borrowing too much. The resulting debt stress has blocked investments and growth in this unequal and unfair world economic order.
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AI and employment
This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.
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Rich nation hypocrisy accelerating global heating
Addressing climate change requires a comprehensive, equitable, and pragmatic approach that prioritizes substantial emissions reductions and supports vulnerable populations most affected by global heating.
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The revolutionary dialectic of Balzac’s ‘Human Comedy’
Honoré de Balzac is renowned as a prolific literary genius and was one of Marx and Engels’ favourite authors.
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What is the realistic strategy for “de-dollarisation”?
As there can only be one price standard in any functioning economic system the transition from one price standard to another cannot take place gradually, or in a mixed way, but must take place sharply, and therefore completely in a very short time frame.