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The abuse of the concept of “populism”
ALL regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”.
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When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich: The Third Newsletter (2023)
On 8 January, large crowds of people dressed in colours of the Brazilian flag descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They invaded federal buildings, including the Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace, and vandalised public property.
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The Realities of Capitalist Denmark
It is not uncommon to see U.S. citizens point to Denmark as a socialist alternative. And yet, just like in the United States, capital accumulation is the guiding principle in Danish society.
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The World Split Apart 2.0: Part 3 and Conclusion
Like during the Cold War, the global schism has a military component that is gradually intensifying. The emerging East-West military standoff is building on the energy of the polarization exacerbated by the Russo-Ukrainian war for NATO expansion.
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The NDP and the Right to Strike
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the Notwithstanding Clause to bar them from asserting their constitutional rights.
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The World Split Apart 2.0: Part 2
A series of international organizations—a network of networks—created by Russia and China form the pillars upon which an alternative to the Western-dominated world order are being built. There is already an institutional split between the West and the rest evidencing the pre-schism bifurcation among great powers: the G7 and G20.
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The World Split Apart 2.0: Introduction and Part 1
Nearly a decade ago I began warning that NATO expansion and the West’s failure to understand that Russian national security interests not a Russian desire to ‘recreate the USSR’ or ‘former Russian empire’ would lead to a world split apart between the West and ‘the rest’ (Sino-Russian ‘strategic partnership and those states oriented towards it).
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The California floods and the climate crisis
The death toll from the ongoing storms and flooding across California and parts of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon rose to at least 18 on Wednesday.
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The French working class organizes to defeat Macron’s pension reforms
The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
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America’s theater of the absurd
Our political class does not govern. It entertains.
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Dismantling the cult of Churchill
Tariq Ali’s new book examines the disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times.
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What progressive people should know about the “Twitter Files”
The “Twitter Files” are a set of internal communications including emails between company executives as well as with politicians, the FBI, Pentagon and other agencies.
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New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
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How Big Pharma actually spends its massive profits
New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade.
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In the U.S. you can be fired for any or no reason—it doesn’t have to be this way
The United States is an employment “at-will” country. That means, absent a union contract, a boss can fire a worker for almost any, or even no reason, and without advance notice. Well—with the exception of Montana.
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The hope of a pan-African-owned and controlled electric car project is buried for generations to come
The United States government held the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent.
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On the influence of neo-Nazism in Ukraine
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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“Shelby County v. Holder:” How the Supreme Court attacked Black voting rights
In 2013, five unelected judges gutted the right to vote for tens of millions of African Americans and others. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby v. Holder overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that prevented voter suppression.
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‘Every issue is a disability issue’
CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
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Dehumanizing the enemy
The word “Russophobia” has been used very widely in the past couple of years by Russians and by “friends of Russia” abroad to describe the campaign of vilification of President Putin in particular and of the Russian people more generally that the U.S. led West has practiced with rising volume and shrillness ever since the start of an Information War launched in 2007.