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Rich countries prolong the pandemic: what Biden must do
Most rich countries have opposed most developing countries’ request to temporarily suspend World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property (IP) rules to more quickly contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Expectations were high as Biden had supported a patent waiver, albeit only for vaccines.
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Reactionary anti-China propaganda not in Canada’s self-interest
Engler: We must reject great-power rivalry and pursue an independent foreign policy
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Dismantling and transcending colonialism’s legacy
Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.
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We Carry a New World in Our Riots
July is mid–winter in the Southern Hemisphere, where Billie Holiday singing “like a summer with a thousand Julys” rings somewhat oddly. Just the same, there was plenty of fire to keep people warm this winter.
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U.S. Congress outlines new phase of economic attacks and hybrid war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government
A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 21 set out plans for the next phase of the United States’ hybrid warfare on Nicaragua, which aims to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the Central American nation’s leftist Sandinista government.
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Berlin locals vote to expropriate real estate giants
Berliners cast their referendum votes on whether to nationalize thousands of housing units owned by real estate giants. After counting all votes, over 56% voted in favor of the measure.
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Biden and Xi address UN, juggling differences amid calls for unity on climate and COVID-19
The leaders of the United States and China each pledged to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that they would help press the fight against virulent pandemics and global warming–even as they offered vastly different visions of the world order.
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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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Time is running out for a new agricultural model for the global south
Agriculture—especially industrial agriculture requiring chemical inputs—is cause and victim of these changes. Cultivation patterns such as mono-cropping, with heavy reliance on groundwater and chemical inputs, have reduced the food sovereignty of poor countries and generated growing environmental problems.
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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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Vectors or value Chains?
While the framework of “vectoralism” proposed by McKenzie Wark in Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? proves inadequate for understanding contemporary political economy, the concept of value chains developed by Intan Suwandi (Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism) offers a promising alternative.
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Where flowers find no peace enough to grow: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
On 13 July 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a landmark resolution on the prevalence of racism and for the creation of an independent mechanism made up of three experts to investigate the root cause of deeply embedded racism and intolerance.
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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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Clear away the hype: the U.S. and Australia signed a nuclear arms deal, simple as that
The AUKUS despite being coined a security partnership, is a nuclear arms deal aimed at increasing pressure against China and should be cause for concern.
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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.