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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP
An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China’s commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left–and the right–were willing to take him seriously.
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A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about U.S. empire–then refused to let me say it
A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to discuss. With the piece ready to go live, everything went horribly wrong.
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Time for a new Toolbox
Review of Snowden’s ToolBox: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
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Caste, class and India’s Covid catastrophe
COVID-19 patients dying on the streets gasping for oxygen. Hundreds of wailing, desperate folks searching for hospital beds to access treatment. Even the dead denied dignified funerals, their bodies dumped unceremoniously in the rivers of India.
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Media ‘Border crisis’ threatens immigration reform
What’s striking is how badly the situation has been represented in the more centrist and prestigious parts of the corporate media.
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U.S. Secretary of State assures Ukraine of support for NATO membership plan
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev today.
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U.S. trying to extradite Venezuelan Diplomat for the “crime” of securing food for the hungry: the case of Alex Saab v. The Empire
The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
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AP sacks correspondent critical of Israel
Emily Wilder had been targeted by extremist Zionist media outlets.
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Time to end the silence on Israel’s nuclear weapons
While Israel’s large arsenal of nuclear weapons is exempt from any discussion, its government drives the suspicion of Iran’s nuclear energy program, writes Mehrnaz Shahabi.
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The latest argument against federal relief: business claims that workers won’t work
In reality there is little support for the argument that expanded unemployment benefits have created an overly worker-friendly labor market, leaving companies unable to hire and, by extension, meet growing demand.
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Fighting anti-trans legislation takes a toll on Texas kids and families
A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth.
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This Biden proposal could make the U.S. a “digital dictatorship”
A “new” proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to “end cancer,” this resuscitated “health DARPA” conceals a dangerous agenda.
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COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are going through nine circles of hell
Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.
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Israel/Palestine coverage presents false equivalency between occupied and occupier
Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.
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The roots of Colombia’s crisis 2021
There has been a social explosion of the Colombian people against poverty and repression. President Duque’s ‘tax reform’ package was the last straw that broke their patience.
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Facebook, social media giants admit to silencing Palestinian voices online
Social media companies including Facebook have admitted to MintPress that pro-Palestinian posts were removed, blaming “technical bugs” and “spam filters.”
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Economics of the new cold war and U.S. ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton interview world-renowned economist Michael Hudson on his concept of American “super imperialism” and the economics of the new cold war on China and Russia.
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Progressive forces win majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Convention
Independent and progressive candidates won more than a two-thirds majority in the Constitutional Convention, a body responsible for writing Chile’s new constitution.
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Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today
This two-part long read is an extract from a chapter in a forthcoming book Fanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth (edited by Nigel Gibson, Daraja Press 2021).