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“Hell No!’—Stokely Carmichael twenty years on
Within a timeframe of hardly four years, Stokely Carmichael’s organizational efforts evolved from the mobilization of black voters in Alabama and Mississippi to building a large movement resisting the military draft at the height of the Vietnam war, culminating in the SNCC’s “Hell No! We Won’t Go!” campaign.
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You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well
Sitting in his office, Donald Trump meets with the head of his economic advisors Gary Cohn. Cohn jokes with Trump. He says, make a speech and say that the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is ready to be built: the materials are on hand, labour is eager. The only thing that engineers are worrying about is how to spell–over the 2000-kilometre border–the word TRUMP.
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Corbyn calls for global movement against inequality, offers support to Latin America’s left
In an interview with Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Jeremy Corbyn said international efforts challenging economic injustice and inequality is needed.
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Did post-Soviet Russians drink themselves to death?
Although initially obscured by The Economist, among others, the sudden and unprecedented increase in Russian adult male mortality during 1992-1994 is no longer denied. Instead, the debate is now over why?
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The lesson of Brazil
The catastrophe–expected and foreseeable–has happened. This immense country, with its 200 million inhabitants, is now in darkness. At best, it will take a decade or two to emerge.
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History made as minorities elected to Congress
An election of “firsts:” Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, African-Americans and Native Americans score seats in the House and Senate.
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This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
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Trump’s rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza
The intent behind Trump’s new rules of engagement and considerable militarization of the U.S. border appears to be greenlighting the U.S. military to function as an IDF-style military police force whenever the next “threat” emerges, whether it be “foreign invaders” or “internal enemies.”
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U.S. Midterms: Native Americans unyielding battle against voter suppression
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that requires North Dakota voters to provide an I.D. with a residential address. The ruling has effectively made the process to vote next to impossible for Native Americans, who by-and-large do not have recognized addresses–but that’s not stopping them.
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Never have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for so long
Those aren’t my words. The quotation that forms the title of this post is from a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis blog post.
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With “Troika of Tyranny,” Bolton’s long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off
Bolton’s new “Troika of Tyranny” speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administration’s Latin America policy.
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Brazil: Workers’ Party challenges political persecution decree
Social movements and political opposition fear Temer’s security decree will be used to persecute left-wing groups.
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Geoengineering as dispossession
The Political Economy of Land Use in an Era of Climate Urgency.
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Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby–USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States.
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With Samir Amin by our side
Brazil’s election result is appalling. Jair Bolsonaro, who will take office early next year, will be the most extremist head of government on the planet. If he cuts down the Amazon Rain Forest–as he promises–it will be catastrophic for life.
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Who will control the Earth’s thermostat?
Geoengineering is a risky business. So risky, in fact, that it should be banned.
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Maduro slams ‘crazy extremist’ Mike Pence over claims Venezuela is funding migrant caravan
NICOLAS MADURO branded U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence a “crazy extremist” today after Washington accused the Venezuelan president of funding the migrant caravan which has been blocked from entering the U.S.a
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The great un-blackening: the corporate project to erase black people from politics
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression–but both pursue austerity and war.
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Trump and Bolton’s new motto: how I started to stop worrying and love the bomb
The key issue is the U.S.’s desire to return to the 90’s status of the world’s sole hegemon.
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Why are thousands of Hondurans walking towards the U.S. border?
The migrant caravan, which has been met with threats from Donald Trump, is the result of poverty, growing crime and repression in Honduras. The U.S. has played a key role in propping up the government of Juan Orlando Hernández, who was reelected in November through blatant electoral fraud.