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Pandemic economic woes continue, but so do deep structural problems, especially the long-term growth in the share of low wage jobs
Many are understandably alarmed about what the September 4th termination of several special federal pandemic unemployment insurance programs will mean for millions of workers.
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The never ending cycle of nuclear insanity
Amidst all of the sensible and sane cries to eliminate nuclear weapons, we are caught in a self-sustaining, self-reinforcing feedback loop. Call it the Death Spiral of Human Annihilation.
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Heads roll as Biden policies move to the Right
The Washington Post has a piece on the current deportation of Haitian migrants from the U.S. and how it is charged with racism.
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New York Times advises China on COVID-19: abandon success, try failure
Shielding the Western elite from justified rage.
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Borders, Blackness, and Empire
The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti.
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America’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartel
In January 2020, as the Verizon settlement was being worked out, the city released the NYC Internet Master Plan, which declared: “The private market has failed to deliver the internet in a way that works for all New Yorkers.”
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Australia’s Defence Policy explained
Australia’s Defence Policy explained – Utopia
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence arms race
As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
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The Empire’s last stand
The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes.
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10th Anniversary Occupy Wall Street: The Rise of Occupy Wall Street–The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left
The idea—that 20,000 people would set up a round-the-clock protest encampment at the foot of Wall Street—had been proposed by Micah White of the Canadian magazine Adbusters without consulting anyone in New York.
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The sound of his approaching step wakes me and I see my land’s deprivation: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2021)
On Wednesday, 8 September, party workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling political party, attacked three buildings in the Melarmath area of Agartala (Tripura). These attacks targeted the offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the communist newspaper Daily Deshar Katha, and two private media houses Pratibadi Kalam and PN-24.
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Legal observers sue the NYPD over assault and detention at Bronx Protest
Police violated the constitutional rights of National Lawyers Guild observers during racial justice protests in Mott Haven, a new lawsuit alleges.
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U.S. media support tech regulation—unless it comes from China
Recently, U.S. media have been aghast at legislation affecting China’s tech sector.
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Pentagon paid the Arms Industry at least $4.4 trillion since 9/11
The top five profiteers were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
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Everything for sale
EVERYWHERE in the world people got vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus without having to pay a penny, but not in India. Everywhere in the world, historic landmarks that define a nation, that constitute the warp and woof of a nation’s consciousness, are held sacred and left untouched in their original shape, but not in India.
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Enbridge Line 3: The climate disaster unfolding before our eyes
For Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, the wreckage of Hurricane Ida is a surreal reminder of what he and others in the Gulf Coast region experienced 16 years ago.
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A resource guide to political prisoners in the U.S.
A growing list and guide to materials highlighting a few of the many of the political prisoners who have been incarcerated in the United States many still fighting for liberation.
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Neo-Liberalism and Nationhood
There is a tendency in the West, including even among progressives, to treat all “nationalism” as a homogeneous and reactionary category. They treat even anti-colonial nationalism as if it is no different from European bourgeois nationalism, notwithstanding the several crucial differences between the two.
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The United States is the greatest Scofflaw
But the United States government is not alone here. It has several close allies, such as Canada, which is the home to 60 per cent of the world’s mining companies. Canada’s great interest in what lies beneath the soil of the Americas allows it to treat those who live above that soil with the greatest disdain.
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10 charts on the State of U.S. workers on the 2nd pandemic Labor Day
While workers are continuing to struggle under Covid, corporate lobbyists are converging on Capitol Hill to block proposed pro-labor reforms.