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When comic books threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)
Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.
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Kazakhstan turns into graveyard for U.S. diplomacy
The Kazakh Ministry of Health issued an innocuous disclaimer today denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.”
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Classical music and the color line
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
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21st Century U.S. coups and attempted coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the U.S., working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over U.S. corporate interests. U.S. organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon.
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Unlocking U.S. sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba
Beijing is slowly unpicking Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.
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Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’
“There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures.”
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When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches
Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.
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Yet another contradiction of capitalism
In the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration’s attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just in that country but elsewhere in the capitalist world as well.
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Conspiracy Theorist Anonymous
A support group for conspiracy theorists finds one fictional belief so bonkers even they can’t get behind it.
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We dance into the New Year banging our hammers and swinging our sickles: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2021)
Bittersweet is the passage of this year. There have been some immense victories and some catastrophic defeats, the most terrible being the failure of the Global North countries to adopt a democratic attitude towards confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and creating equitable access to key resources, from life-saving medical equipment to vaccines.
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After years of setbacks, U.S. labor demonstrates its power
2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers in partaking in union votes and strike actions.
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FBI is recklessly misusing Trump-era espionage policy to create “Climate of Fear” among scientists—terrorizing families and ruthlessly destroying careers
On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was convicted by a federal jury of lying to the U.S. about his involvement with China’s government and failing to disclose income from China on his tax returns.
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Are there “foreigners” in the U.S. working class?
Politicians and the media work hard to give the impression that millions of low-wage workers are constantly seeking entry into the U.S. Most U.S. news consumers would probably be astonished to learn that the undocumented population here actually declined during the years from 2008 to 2016. It continued to decline at least until 2019.
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The FBI file on Foucault
The materials in the enlarged version of the FBI file on Foucault cover the period from September 1972 to October 1977. Yet he visited the United States before and after that period. We are therefore left with the glaring question of how the FBI and other agencies concerned with his entry into the country treated him during the years of his other visits.
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bell hooks changed how we think about Black femininity, class, and capitalism
The world lost a trailblazing thinker and feminist this week. Professor and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, passed away at the age of 69.
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Chaos, poverty and hunger – The U.S. legacy in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led mission fled the Afghanistan front of their so-called “war on terror,” leaving nothing but trash, extreme poverty and universal unemployment.
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Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered’
Though he’s spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.
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Putin hints at military options in Ukraine
The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend.
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Protecting the Nazis: The extraordinary vote of Ukraine and the USA
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
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Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press: Part One
Eugene V. Debs may be my all-time favorite American and Karl Marx my all-time favorite journalist. But my employer for a decade was The Wall Street Journal, and for another decade it was the Los Angeles Times.