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Tell-and-consequences is not a war game, neither is turn-the-other-cheek
The game of tell-and-consequences begins with a prompt.
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The hidden story: Israeli ‘aid’ is part of genocide plan
The victims had gathered in hopes of finding food for themselves and their families, following a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade of the territory. At least 31 people were killed; one Palestinian was also killed by Israeli fire the same day at another distribution site in central Gaza.
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Trump wants to keep America digitally divided
By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters.
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Capitalism is burning the world: Canada’s wildfire season
Canada’s new liberal prime minister has given the lie to the notion that a green capitalism is possible with fossil-fuel friendly policies as the climate crisis intensifies, explains John Clarke.
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Disdain for the poor: Job Corps shutdown sparks outrage
Programs that create opportunity, equity, and stability are being dismantled to make way for budget cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy.
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U.S. demands Asian allies prepare for “imminent” war against China
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”
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Venezuela’s participatory democracy and the struggle against imperialism: A Conversation with Alison Bodine
An international observer in Venezuela’s May 25 elections reflects on the country’s democracy and explains why solidarity with the Bolivarian Process is more urgent than ever.
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Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows
Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”
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Ballots and bias: How the press framed Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections
Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media’s biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela’s May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.
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‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’
CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
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A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability
Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.
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Pizza goeth before a ball? Changes in Americans’ eating habits foretell a deep recession
In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.
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Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?
The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.
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ESSAY: ‘The Intellectual Origins of Imperialism and Zionism’, Edward Said, 1977
The zionist terrorist entity does not act alone. Over the 600 days of the genocide of the Palestinians, the United States has shipped 800 planeloads, carrying more than 90,000 tons of missiles, bombs, and military equipment, to the zionist entity.
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Economics and the concept of progress
THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.
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Immigration as a political weapon
Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the U.S. to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested since the start of the state of exception, an emergency measure that has been renewed 36 times by the National Assembly since its promulgation in March 2022.
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The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.
Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.
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Wes Anderson takes on Western Imperialism: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Review
This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.
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Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’
Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.
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Israel as a tool of U.S. imperialism
A number of notable parallels run through the histories of Israel and the United States.