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In the terrain of Word War III
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) advanced decisively into Russian-held territory in northeastern Ukraine two weeks ago, exposing the weakness, incompetence, and cowardice of Russian soldiers and officers. The tide of this war has turned. The Russian army is on the way to defeat, and President Vladimir Putin could go down with it.
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Lemons, mimosas, and Stalin’s shovel
The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and pretension.
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Fascism returns to Europe’s centerstage
Meloni insists that she isn’t a fascist herself, yet her party’s flag includes the symbol of the old pro-Fascist party— the tricolor flame.
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A people’s analysis of a world on fire
As popular movements across the world have been warning, we are undergoing a crisis of the capitalist system globally.
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Labour officials laughed at death of member accused of anti-Semitism
Labour officials laughed after learning that a member expelled for alleged anti-Semitism had died.
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Without culture, freedom is impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival.
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BAR Book Forum: Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, and Tafadzwa Mushonga’s Book, “The Violence of Conservation in Africa”
Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, and Tafadzwa Mushonga: “The book places African states and their behaviors towards African people in conservation spaces within the global environmental agendas of powerful states and well-funded conservation organizations. It interprets conservation as an ideology referencing African landscapes without people. Such an ideology separates people from their biophysical and cultural milieus, leading to conservation violence authorized by states against their citizens.”
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“The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann
We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing in the United States.
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Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard’s pro-Hitler patch
The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler.
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UN officials denounce Israel’s “illegal and unacceptable” war on Palestinian civil society
UN official Mary Lawlor calls Israeli attacks on Palestinian human rights organizations an “atrocity.” “It’s as simple as that,” Lawlor tells Mondoweiss, “Israel does not want human rights defenders documenting and publicizing the attacks and injustice done to the Palestinians. So, this is their tactic.”
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My revolutionary inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich
Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
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The failed serotonin theory of depression: A Marxist analysis
A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant “serotonin hypothesis” of depression.
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Life expectancy: The U.S. and Cuba in the time of Covid
Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years.
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Sex work: a contemporary identity rooted in labour
Following Labour Day, this column explores the origin of the phrase sex work and how sex workers are an important part of the labour movement.
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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.
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Background checks, algorithms, and the re-making of the abnormal
A great deal of attention has been paid to the problems of carceral injustice and the increasing use of AI for things such as predictive policing.
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Washington is the reason why “Israel” gets away with killing Shireen Abu Akleh
The joke of a U.S. report claims that it can’t judge “Israel”, because it does not have conclusive evidence of who fired the bullet, yet somehow claims to know the intent of the one responsible, without even knowing who that is.
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The Catholic Church and Nicaragua
Recently a deluge of headlines about the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has appeared in international media–but not one of the articles has accurately explained what is happening. Below I’ll break down Nicaragua’s relationship with the Catholic Church and recent events, all links are to excellent articles for those who want to delve deeper.
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No room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.