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Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries
Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
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Better late than never, but act now
The world should now be more aware of likely COVID-19 devastation unless urgently checked. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an US$8 billion plan to quickly vaccinate many more people to expedite ending the pandemic.
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Walter Rodney’s Lost Book: One Hundred Years of Development in Africa
One of the most astonishing books that Walter Rodney–the Guyanese revolutionary and historian–ever wrote was published several years after he was assassinated on 13 June 1980.
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A call to look beyond prescription opioid supply-side restrictions and include health equity when predicting opioid policy effectiveness
We read with interest the study by Rao and colleagues on opioid policy effectiveness, which extends their previous modeling efforts to predict opioid-related overdose, life-years, and QALYs. This work presents a useful framework from which to investigate policy effectiveness.
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Media ignore politics behind Green leader’s demise
Annamie Paul’s perspective has overwhelmingly shaped coverage of the dramatic and bitter conflict within the Green Party.
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China’s accession to the WTO and the collapse that never was
President Joe Biden is worried about China. In April he explained “we are in competition with China… to win the 21st century… we are at a great inflection point in history. We have to do more than just build back better… we have to compete more strenuously.”
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U.S. Covid death toll hits 700,000: A massacre by the capitalist system
The United States marked a grim milestone Oct. 1 as the 700,000th death from COVID-19 was officially registered. Since January of 2020 the United States has also counted over 43 million cases, the most of any country on the planet for both deaths and infections.
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Extracting Profits – imperialism, climate change and resistance in Africa
2018 seems like a lifetime ago. When ‘Extracting Profit’ came out that year, the COVID-19 pandemic was two years away. Since then, the world has been plunged into a devastating crisis, with 4.5 million lives lost globally, including close to 200,000 reported deaths on the African continent.
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Finance capital and the World Economy
THE period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole.
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“Race Norming” and Health Care Jim Crow
The term “race norming ” ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick.
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What is imperialism?
Towards the common objectives of anti-imperialist struggle.
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Cages of Whiteness in the Shadow of Haiti: Guy Endore’s ‘Babouk’ and the Critique of Race-Class Alienation
Re-reading Guy Endore’s “forgotten masterpiece” it is striking how this novel from 1934, long-noted for its shocking and sophisticated account of slavery and resistance in the lead-up to the Haitian Revolution, is also a penetrating account of the ethical and political deformity and alienation perpetuated by the ideology of “whiteness.”
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Florida’s Republican Governor awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s assassin
After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
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What has the Trade “War” between the United States and China achieved?
On July 6, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally imposed a 25 per cent tariff on Chinese imports of around $34 billion, and further tariffs in 2018 and 2019—claiming that trade between U.S. and China had been unfairly skewed in China’s favour and needed to be rebalanced.
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A Company Family: The untold history of Obama and the CIA
Despite his liberal pretensions, Obama’s foreign policy was dreamed up at Langley—which should not have been surprising given his background
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Canadian court strikes down Trudeau’s appeal against compensation to Indigenous children
The Justin Trudeau government has been stalling efforts by Indigenous groups to secure compensation to survivors of Canada’s discriminatory child services that has pushed Indigenous children disproportionately into foster care.
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Forbes reveals why the U.S. Government is trying to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab
The U.S. would far prefer to just quietly extradite Saab to Miami, use whatever means necessary to extract sensitive information from him, and then warehouse him in the world’s largest prison system.
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Building a movement to shutdown AFRICOM
In 2008, the establishment of the U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, one of the eleven U.S. global command structures, began the new scramble for Africa, an effort by the United States to practice full spectrum dominance over the entire continent.
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A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser
A caricatured account of Althusser’s intellectual trajectory might read something like this…
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China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles: Michael Hudson and Renegade Inc.
Welcome to Renegade Inc. With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. One of those investors is a bullish gentleman called George Soros.