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What worries the U.S. most about Lula
Steve Ellner says opposition to NATO’s stance on Ukraine has created fertile ground for the expansion of a bloc of non-aligned nations, now with a progressive possibly at the helm.
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Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba–U.S. and Israel are rogue states at UN
For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.
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Biden administration again plants false nuclear scare stories
Today the Washington Post as well as the New York Times are back fear mongering about alleged threats which Russia has never made. Both stories are based on ‘administration officials’ meaning that the Biden administration has planted these stories.
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Who’s afraid of U.S. troops in Ukraine?
Very innocuously, the Biden Administration has ‘sensitised’ the world opinion that American troops are indeed present on Ukrainian soil in Russia’s immediate neighbourhood. Washington made a “soft landing” with an unnamed senior Pentagon official making the disclosure to the Associated Press and the Washington Post.
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Boom and bust: The fight over Bitcoin mining in New York State
Seneca Lake’s picturesque setting belies its long history of conquest and extraction.
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Politicians make Black people the face of crime
Manufactured crime panics are still a successful method of getting votes from white people.
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A failure to review America’s nuclear posture
President Joe Biden has passed on his best chance to operationalize his stated goal of reducing the role in US security policy of America’s more than 5,400 nuclear weapons with the public release on October 27 of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
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As Ukraine war escalates, the climate movement goes AWOL
Lascaris: This is no time to prioritize political expediency and serenity over the reputational perils of anti-war activism.
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Real Estate industry spends big to crush LA “mansion tax”
Corporate real estate interests have come out in full force to try and defeat a ballot measure to hike taxes on multimillion-dollar property sales.
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Liberal Democracy: The Bedfellow of fascism
Antifascism, as a politic and concept, has grown more appealing in the last 6 years because of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism domestically and globally rooted in patriarchy and ongoing (settler) colonialism.
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The world according to Bloomberg
The story currently being peddle by the folks at Bloomberg [ht: ja] is that the American middle-class is currently suffering, as the enormous wealth they managed to accumulate during the past few years is now dwindling. And that crisis—the end of their “once-in-a-generation wealth boom”—is what they will take into the midterm elections.
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A Wisconsin story
Jon Melrod brings back to us a vital moment in the history of the U.S. labor movement, a moment in which the demographic transformation the workforce but also the lingering memory of 1960s social movements and unrest, raised the possibility of radicals racing to the front of class conflicts.
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Is Dennis Kucinich the last Democrat for peace?
Former Congressman and Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich joins Scheer Intelligence to discuss the Dems’ infamously rescinded peace letter and the future with China.
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What accounts for the war lust among American Liberals?
This past June, Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser Matt Duss (an alumnus of the Saudi- and UAE- funded Center for American Progress) published a widely discussed essay in The New Republic in which he declared that American liberals and progressives need to prioritize expressions of “solidarity” with Ukraine over policies that might put an end to the bloodshed.
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Super Storm Disaster Relief: SOCIALISM vs. CAPITALISM
The U.S., Vietnam and Cuba were hit by category 4 hurricane and typhoon at the same time but the way Vietnam and Cuba deal with the natural disaster is very different from the U.S.
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The Wolfowitz Doctrine led to the disastrous war in Iraq: Now it is leading to a potentially even more cataclysmic war in Asia
The Project for a New American Racist Century is omnipresent in the capitals of Europe today. From Dublin to Berlin—Ukrainian colors are on flagpoles, bus stops and buildings. The subtext is blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Worthless House Progressives retract mild peace advocacy under pressure from warmongers
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to c politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.
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The Global Fragility Act, April 2022
The U.S. is ushering a new foreign policy doctrine through “The Global Fragility Act.” We need to not only understand these new forms of imperial practice, but to also see the cunning use of language in the service of U.S. imperialism.
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U.S. waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders say openly
The Biden administration’s aggressive sanctions aim to “kneecap” China’s tech sector. A former Pentagon official acknowledged it is a “disproportionate” and “unilateral” attack, a “form of economic containment.”
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Who is this ‘Haiti’ that’s appealing for intervention?
Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again.