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Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists have responded to the Wagner mutiny and Prigozhin’s Empire
The calls have begun in Mosco, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin’s conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused. In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, and so too big to fail.
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Deadly hazards of capitalist profit system
The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.
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Canada’s political elites are climate criminals in the pocket of Big Oil
The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.
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Cluster bomb opponents ‘appalled’ by Biden becision to send banned weapons to Ukraine
President Joe Biden has reportedly given final approval for the transfer of U.S. cluster munitions to Ukraine, ignoring warnings from human rights groups and progressive lawmakers who underscored the indiscriminate weapons’ devastating impacts on civilians immediately upon use and far into the future.
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The future is now: Rethinking public ownership
Ursula Huws reflects on the history of ‘prefigurative’ approaches and community ownership models in the UK – and how these can be used to rethink public ownership amid the current cost-of-living crisis.
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More than meets the silk press: Kamala Harris and U.S. imperialism
Kamala Harris wants to be your aunty. The Biden Administration’s controversial Vice President is often presented as either an incompetent sidekick, or a lovable big sister figure who “stays with her hair done”.
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Failed ‘counteroffensive’ in Ukraine as NATO prepares for summit, pressures Global South to toe a pro-war line
Monthly military situation report for June 2023, by Dmitri Kovalevich, in Ukraine, June 29, 2023.
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The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction characteristic of capitalism.
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How U.S. Department of Homeland Security became global ‘thought police’
CISA’s “disinformation” busting activities served to systematically malign independent journalists and alternative media platforms, while reinforcing established news outlets as monopolies of truth.
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No justice, no peace in France
“Tout le monde deteste la police!”—Everyone hates the police—was chanted at demonstrations and riots across France last week.
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World’s richest added $852 billion to their fortunes in first half of 2023
Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index made an average of over $14 million per day over the last six months—even as 47 percent of the world’s population barely survived on $6.25 a day.
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Ukraine destroyed the Kakhovka dam: a forensic assessment
In multiple ways, the dam’s destruction echoes the 2022 destruction of the Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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A Patriot’s Fourth of July: Berlin Bulletin No. 213
Despite all doubts, despite fearful weaponry, at home or abroad, can we still call ourselves patriotic? In fact, is that a good thing to be?
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‘The gravity of the situation cannot be overstated’: an eyewitness account from the Israeli assault on Jenin
As the occupation relentlessly tightens its grip on the Jenin refugee camp, the message is crystal clear–punish the stronghold of popular resistance. But they will not succeed and will only breed a new generation to carry the torch.
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Ukraine timeline tells the story
Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa
A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
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European Council on Foreign Relation: Europe becoming vassal of U.S.
A report issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has warned that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States.
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Socialism and the city
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx highlighted that “constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones”.
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The liberal-imperialist view of the conflict in Ukraine
Wiktionary: ‘Carrying water’ is to to do someone’s bidding; to serve someone’s interests.