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The FBI file on Foucault
The materials in the enlarged version of the FBI file on Foucault cover the period from September 1972 to October 1977. Yet he visited the United States before and after that period. We are therefore left with the glaring question of how the FBI and other agencies concerned with his entry into the country treated him during the years of his other visits.
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Colonialism: a cancer on the planet
The acuity of Hunton’s insights, seen in retrospect so many decades later, offers astounding reading. Throughout, he has one clear aim: to let the peoples of the struggling masses in the emerging nations seize their own destiny.
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Chaos, poverty and hunger – The U.S. legacy in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led mission fled the Afghanistan front of their so-called “war on terror,” leaving nothing but trash, extreme poverty and universal unemployment.
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Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left
As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them.
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Book Review: Mumia Abu-Jamal’s ‘Have Black Lives Ever Mattered’
Though he’s spent the last 35 years incarcerated—and at least thirty of those years in isolation on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has remained steadfast in his activism, especially in regards to police brutality, criminal punishment, and black liberation.
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Putin hints at military options in Ukraine
The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend.
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I want to get our rights from the Americans who harmed us: The fifty-first newsletter (2021)
The persecution of Julian Assange is a fundamental assault on journalism, press freedom, and freedom of expression.
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Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed
This year’s successes include Shell becoming the first company in history to be held legally liable for contributing to climate change.
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Absurd Guardian article declares China world’s only imperialist power
Another cartoonishly ridiculous anti-China propaganda piece has been published in the western mass media, this time by The Guardian, which at this point could arguably be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda in the western world.
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Israeli army rule allowing shooting of stone-throwers will be applied to Palestinians, not Jews
The Israeli military has changed its rules of engagement to allow its forces to fire on Palestinians who have thrown stones or firebombs even when they no longer pose any danger. The new rule is a sop to Israeli settlers, the IDF’s clientele.
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Nord Stream 2 is a double-edged geopolitical tool
The undersea Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been built at a cost of $11 billion. But the Kremlin kept its thought to itself. We now know why.
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Canada must prepare for America’s rapid decline
It’s high time that Canada reclaimed its sovereignty, diversified its trade relationships and strengthened its self-sufficiency.
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Nicaragua’s evidence-based democracy threatens U.S. oppression domestically and abroad
Despite Washington’s best effort to derail Nicaragua’s electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and the reelection of President Daniel Ortega with 75.92% of the votes cast. Nicaragua’s non-partisan, independent Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) reported on Monday, November 8th that 65.23% of […]
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How do we stop the neocons from starting another disaster in Ukraine
If anything, Washington’s neoconservatives have an unerring instinct for survival.
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Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4
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João Pedro Stedile on Bolsonaro and Brazilian elections in 2022
Brazilian peasant leader João Pedro Stedile discusses the different dimensions of the worst crisis in the country’s recent history, as well as the priorities for movements in 2022.
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It’s all in the flag: Bussa’s Rebellion and the 200-year fight to end British rule in Barbados
Prince Charles, as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance, providing a royal seal of approval. Barbados gained its independence in 1966, though the new nation kept ties to its former overlords by keeping Elizabeth II as a symbolic head of state.
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Britain’s legacy of brutal slavery in Barbados
Yes, the British Empire is indeed one colony smaller as Barbados formally declared itself independent of its colonial rulers after 400 years yesterday in a big ole fancy ceremony attended by all kinds of dignitaries.
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Israel pushes U.S. into ‘aggressive posture toward Iran that could spiral into war’ — but mainstream press is indifferent
Trump says, Netanyahu was ‘willing to fight Iran to the last American soldier.’ That ought to be big news, as Israel’s defense minister gets unrivaled access in D.C. to threaten war and block the U.S. path to a new Iran deal.
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The U.S. experience: racism and COVID-19 mortality
Not only did all the racial and ethnic populations, with the exception of Asians, experience far higher COVID-19 mortality rates than did whites, their respective rates were at least twice that of whites.