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In a soybean game dominated by capital, no one wins
China was once the world’s highest producer of soybeans, accounting for about 90% of the total. Currently, 60 percent of global soybean exports are destined for the Chinese market.
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The Polish missile incident was a close brush with nuclear annihilation
The Polish Missile Incident Was a Close Brush with Nuclear Annihilation.
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Social Democracy will not save us
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
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Those who struggle to change the world know it well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx’s death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’.
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Another Ukrainian missile stunt
The 5V55K is an old Soviet produced missile (1978/82) for the S-300 air defense system that the Ukraine is using against Russian cruise missiles.
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Hawai’i—the very first U.S. regime change
Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.
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U.S. media searched for crisis at China Party Congress
For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.
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U.S.-Russia proxy war risks nuclear apocalypse, 60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis
On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer than ever to nuclear apocalypse, with the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine and the US military deploying nukes to Europe and Australia.
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Haunted by the ghost of “Marbury v. Madison:” Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court
In 2022, after a handful of unelected judges serving lifetime terms in the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated the hard-won and overwhelmingly popular right to abortion, masses of people took to the streets to defend this democratic right to bodily autonomy.
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Attempt to try Russian leaders for war crimes is part of the West’s weaponization of the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.
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COP27 deliberations reaffirm imperialist states as main obstacle to ending climate change
Developing countries and mass organizations continue to demand compensation for damage and loss.
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COP27 fiddling as world warms
The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Question in the void
I have long wanted to ask media outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many others that consider themselves independent, how they feel about the Ukrainian nationalist website “Myrotvorets” entering and posting personal information, including addresses, phone numbers, and bank accounts of American citizens in its database.
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Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX had ties to Ukrainian government, WEF, and top Biden adviser
FTX had some eye-opening connections to powerful entities and individuals around the world before it all came crashing down.
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Millions suffer as junk food industry rakes in profit
Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Offloading climate responsibility on the victims of climate change
Nnimmo Bassey (NB): Simple solutions are avoided in today’s world because they don’t support capital.
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Canadian journalist added to Ukrainian hitlist
It’s no secret that Ukraine’s so-called “Center to Control Disinformation” operates a database which publicizes the private information of thousands of journalists worldwide.
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Oil and gas industry’s expansion plans decried as attack on ‘livable planet’
Fossil fuel giants are moving to ramp up extraction as new data shows that the industry has been emitting three times more planet-heating pollution than it claims.
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World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist socialism or fascist barbarism
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative path that opposes both the far right and the liberal pro-NATO chauvinists.
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Kingston tenants win historic 15% rent reduction
A grassroots tenant-organizing victory comes after Orlando and several cities across CA adopted rent control on Tuesday.