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From yellow journalism to China bashing, the media’s enduring role in promoting war
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war.
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Threats to the hegemony of the dollar
JANET Yellen, the U.S. treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the U.S. is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardizing the hegemony of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
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DeSantis role in Guantanamo Bay killings exposed with a holed report
The height of inhumane treatment and systemic torture in the camp was during DeSantis’ term serving as a JAG officer, whose main task was to identify the weaknesses of the detainees and to “tighten the screws” on them.
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Liberia and the challenges of U.S. imperialism
Liberia’s history should be understood as that of a colony, the first U.S. overseas colony.
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The Monroe Doctrine: Two hundred years too long
Francisco Dominguez on the history and development of the ‘doctrine’ that has been used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America for two centuries.
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Xi Jinping speaks with Zelensky about China’s peace plan for Ukraine
The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, held their first contact since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in February 2022, as reported by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence of a multipolar world.
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Who gains from a forever war in Ukraine?
The newly elected president of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel is an unusual European politician. He is the second president in his country with a military background but the first without political experience.
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Resisting AFRICOM and beyond
An Interview with Rose Brewer of Black Alliance for Peace.
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You are reading this thanks to semiconductors: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2023)
On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry.
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ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a network of camps inside Russia. The warrant was based on a report by the Yale HRL center, which is funded by the U.S. State Department.
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150 young organizers from the U.S. travel to Cuba defying the blockade
Over 150 young leaders from a variety of organizations in the U.S. are in Cuba to participate in a solidarity brigade organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly. They are meeting with different sectors of Cuban society to learn about the impact of the U.S. blockade and experiences in building socialism.
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Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis?
The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People’s Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.
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The State and the future of socialism
In his recent book, The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou describes the past defeats of May 1968, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Paris Commune as well as those of factory occupations and other such struggles as defeats ‘covered with glory’.
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Facebook censors journalist Seymour Hersh’s report on Nord Stream pipeline attack
Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.
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Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party is a racist assault on the Black Liberation Movement
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals.
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Global military spending reaches record $2,240 billion: SIPRI
According to SIPRI, global military spending will reach a new record high of $2,240 billion in 2022.
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U.S. pregnancy-related deaths skyrocket, capitalism is to blame
A new report out from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that U.S. maternal deaths have increased by an alarming 40% since 2020.
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These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh anarchists organize in response to transphobic hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
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ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics
‘The threat to privacy and data security posed by language models like ChatGPT is real enough. I frankly doubt that there’s any practical way to contain them. The most effective means that I can think of…to counter the spread of malicious doctrines and ideology are education in critical thinking, organization to encourage deliberation, and modes of intellectual self-defense.’ —Noam Chomsky