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While rail unions meet with Biden to avert strike, 500 railroaders attend meeting to organize rank-and-file opposition
With the specter of a national rail strike in the United States looming, two meetings took place on Wednesday night.
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Vernon Gonsalves: Stop denying political prisoners the right to healthcare in Indian jails
On 8th September Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16 undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case lodged in the anda cell of Taloja Central Jail, was diagnosed with dengue and likely pneumonia.
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Marx’s writings on Asia: A sober assessment
Throughout most of recorded history, Asia has been the wealthiest region in the world.
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U.S. launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
The U.S. military launched 469 foreign interventions since 1798, including 251 since the end of the first cold war in 1991, according to official Congressional Research Service data.
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Biden is helping fossil fuel donors weaken his clean water rule
In backing Joe Manchin’s “permitting reform,” the president could undermine his own EPA initiative.
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‘Avenging Sabra and Shatila’: On Israeli massacres and Palestinian resistance
September 16 marks the 40th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the killing of around 3,000 Palestinians at the hands of Lebanon’s Phalangist militias operating under the command of the Israeli army.
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Idaho’s Far Right suffers election loss to 18-year-old climate activist
High school senior Shiva Rajbhandari won elected office in Boise, defeating an incumbent school board trustee backed by local extremists.
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Saad Hariri and the collapse of Lebanon
The Syrian regime-change war and Lebanon’s economic collapse happened under Saad Hariri’s watch, but the Future Movement leader is seldom mentioned for the pivotal role he played in Lebanon’s unravelling.
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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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U.S. still fails to grant visas for Russian delegation to attend UNGA
Russia still waits for the U.S. to act on its “legal obligation” and provide the Russian delegation with the necessary visas to attend the UN General Assembly session.
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The throne behind the power – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on the loss and replacement of a UK monarch.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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With fire and courage
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s poetry in Chicana on Fire (2022) is testimonial and collective.
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Abortion foes target their next Supreme Court fight
The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.
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‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’
In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”
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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.
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Steve Fraser, the Rogue Court, then and now
Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law.
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The historic collapse of journalism
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.
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CHEAT SHEET: Health Care’s secret middleman
In just five minutes we’ll tell you what you need to know about the shadowy power of pharmacy benefit managers.