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Recognizing Mike Davis, San Diego’s giant of Urban Theory
When the news spread a couple weeks ago that San Diego scholar and activist Mike Davis was going on palliative care, it generated an outpouring of support online. And for good reason.
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UK to swap out top sociopath for a different sociopath: notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath.
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Fueling the Warfare State
America’s $1.4 trillion “National Security” budget makes us ever less safe.
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Taiwan and the making of an “Asian” NATO
The United States wants to turn Taiwan into an Asian Ukraine. The goal is to use it as a weapon against a China, a country that has been declared an adversary.
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Senate urged to block Biden’s pro-privatization nominee for Social Security Board
“The Senate can, and must, block this terrible nomination,” Social Security Works said of the administration’s choice of Andrew Biggs.
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As anti-BDS bills become the norm, ACLU takes free speech fight to the Supreme Court
In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States.
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Lithuania’s Brinkmanship
The restoration of Russia’s rail connection with Kaliningrad is urgently needed to avoid a conflict in the Baltics that has worried NATO for a long time.
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Biden’s reckless new provocation ratchets up risk of nuclear war with China
Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
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Heroic Oakland community strikes and occupies elementary school to prevent closures
For months, school board meetings have been flooded with outcry from parents, teachers and children defending public education. Since May 25, the community has been occupying Parker Community School to protest its closure.
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Ending pandemic aid created a disaster
New data show the end of pandemic relief coincided with a 49 percent increase in the number of families struggling to survive.
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The United States wants to prevent a historical fact–Eurasian integration: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on the United States for trade and investment, as well as the curious distraction of Brexit, led to the steady integration of European countries with Russian energy markets and more uptake of Chinese investment opportunities and its manufacturing prowess.
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Ukrainian army terror bombardment of DPR leaves seven civilians dead and 44 injured in 48 hours
It is to be hoped that counter-battery fire from the Russian army and the DPR people’s militia will eventually bring an end to the Ukrainian army’s terror bombing of civilians.
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Don’t look to EPA to save us!
The 51-year-old agency has been losing both power and credibility over recent decades, and SCOTUS’s recent ruling undermines it even more.
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U.S. forces involved in at least 23 proxy wars across the world, new documents suggest
UNITED States Special Operational forces have been involved in at least 23 secretive proxy wars across the world on a scale far greater than previously known, new documents indicate.
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The Future of Work (Part 3) – automation
In this third part of my series on the future of work, I want to deal with the impact of automation, in particular robots and artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs. I have covered this issue of the relationship between human labour and machines before, including robots and AI. But is there anything new that we can find after the COVID slump?
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The Future of Work (Part 2) – working long and hard
In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work which has mushroomed since the COVID pandemic.
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NATO officially adds China to its list of enemies
Leaders of the member countries of the imperialist NATO military alliance concluded their annual summit in Madrid today. This summit was a clear display of NATO’s commitment to continuously fuel the fire of international conflict as the major capitalist powers drag the world back into a Cold War-style period of global confrontation.
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Anatomy of a Coup: How CIA front laid foundations for Ukraine war
Obvious examples of Central Intelligence Agency covert action abroad are difficult to identify today, save for occasional acknowledged calamities, such as the long-running $1 billion effort to overthrow the government of Syria, via funding, training and arming barbarous jihadist groups.
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EU economies are down on their knees
On July 1 at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.”
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Supreme Court condemns planet and human life
In a 6‒3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 30 against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a move that signals a major setback in the fight against climate change.