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Biden shuts down U.S.-Mexico border
Border shutdown will go into effect immediately, barring asylum seekers from entering the United States.
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On China’s overcapacity
According to Western politicians and neoliberal economists, China’s industrial subsidies and production capacity are to blame for the U.S.’s trade deficit and its apparent inability to reindustrialise its economy.
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“Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian lawyer censored by Columbia and Harvard
The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.”
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Today’s Lenin
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, based in Berlin, recently issued a bulletin entitled, “Seven Reasons Not to Leave Lenin to Our Enemies.” This was intriguing because Rosa was one of Lenin’s sternest critics, and during the Cold War era, her works found print in the United States as vindication of current U.S. policies against the Soviet Union.
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U.S.-EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia
Over 25,000 NGOs are active in Georgia, and most rely on funding from Europe and the U.S. A new bill aiming to reign in Western meddling has sparked furious anti-government protests explicitly encouraged by Washington.
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Ninety years of a life to end wars
H. Bruce Franklin, who was deeply involved in the movement against the Vietnam War, died earlier this month.
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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union announce affiliation, member vote still ahead
The Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters have signed an affiliation agreement.
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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Third U.S. farm worker infected with highly pathogenic bird flu virus
As of May 31, 2024, 69 herds have been impacted across nine states, according to the USDA. Health authorities are also monitoring 350 people who have been exposed, but only 40 farm workers have consented to testing.
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Cisgender activists speak: Why is supporting trans rights important?
A mere decade after the Stonewall Rebellion, as the LGBTQIA+ community was winning some victories, the right wing began mobilizing to take them away. It began in Dade County, Florida, as former Miss America Anita Bryant led a campaign called “Save Our Children.”
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The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Freeing ourselves from the monster destroying our planet and our futures.
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I witnessed an alternative to the U.S. homelessness crisis in socialist Cuba
Within the United States, homelessness has become a permanent feature of the capitalist system, and around 650,000 U.S. residents sleep on the streets on any given night.
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The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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A closer look at America’s water crisis
New Mexico’s unprotected waters demonstrate how pollution, drought, and the climate crisis converge to harm communities.
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NATO’s spiralling commitments to Ukraine risk catastrophe
We are on the possible verge of a major escalation in the war in the Ukraine, one which risks war between NATO and Russia, and one involving nuclear weapons, argues Chris Bambery.
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Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the U.S.?
The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base.
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How tens of thousands of grad workers are organizing themselves
It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.
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Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ (1839-1949)
In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations.
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom