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Jack Ma is not the problem
Broadly speaking, beneath these diverse incidents lies a single force. A great teacher and his generation warned of and suppressed it, but it has sprouted once more since the 1980s. After 40 years, it has taken root in multiple facets of our lives, including thought, society, reality and power.
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Why are hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise?
Largely missing from this ongoing discussion is the role of the police and the capitalist state. The media has done an excellent job at depicting these violent acts as interpersonal and individual attacks.
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How Chesa Boudin is pursuing his promise to reduce incarceration
After more than a year in office—and despite pushback—the San Francisco DA’s policies have kept people out of jails and prisons.
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Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine
Brazil has suffered the world’s second-worst number of COVID-19 death rates, with Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 policy being described as “homicidally negligent”.
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Murdoch Paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side
There is certainly a tad of glee in the right-wing media over multiple scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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What’s behind the Biden Administration’s new $100 billion nuclear missile system?
Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.
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NATO video talks ‘diversity, respect, embrace’ but critics see through the wash job
NATO’s latest video is yet another example of how superficially progressive language is used to put a gloss on fundamentally regressive institutions.
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Anti-Asian racism never stopped being an outgrowth of U.S. imperialism
Scant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism.
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100 days of revolt, & still raring to go
As the farmers’ protest against farm laws enters the summer season, they brave high temperatures and the paucity of basic necessities
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Tutors replacing teachers: A failed privatization plot returns
The pandemic showed that for students to get quality instruction, especially poor children of color, America must invest in real teachers, smaller class sizes, and better working conditions, including improved school facilities.
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Digital colonialism: the evolution of American empire
American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South.
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Who signed the pro-testing appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to receive waivers from the mandated federal testing.
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Humanitarian imperialism
How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences.
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The case for abolition, for skeptics
In the final piece of the series, NLG Anti-Racism Committee Co-Chair and one of the proponents of the 2020 policing resolution Kira Kelley makes the case for the abolition of policing and offers examples of individuals and projects taking power and resources away from police and prisons to create non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives.
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Cornel West: Palestine is a “taboo issue among certain circles in high places”
Activist and scholar says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation.
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After years of propaganda, American views of Russia and China hit historic lows
Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already been laid.
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Surprise on the left
Surprise, surprise! Things worked out quite differently than expected at the congress of the LINKE, the left-wing party.
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Beyond the Sprouts of Capitalism
The contemporary political economy of the People’s Republic of China, the nature of the Chinese system, has been the subject of much discussion and debate in mainstream academic, media, and political circles, as well as on the left. Yet one can only make sense of contemporary China with a clear understanding of the country’s economic history.
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BJP begins to pay political price as farmers struggle completes three months
IN the week before the historic nationwide farmers’ struggle completed three months on February 26, the BJP has begun to pay a heavy political price for its pro-corporate adamancy.
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The Pandemic: Half a million lives lost in U.S., more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined
Over half a million people have died of coronavirus in the U.S. Grasping the enormity–half a million people gone–is difficult to visualize.