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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 catastropheâexpected and foreseeableâhas 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 âfirsts:â Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, African-Americans and Native Americans score seats in the House and Senate.
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This isnât the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship
Trumpâs assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a âWhite Manâs Country, and threatens all people of color.
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Trumpâs rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza
The intent behind Trumpâs 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 âthreatâ emerges, whether it be âforeign invadersâ or âinternal enemies.â
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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 addressesâbut thatâs not stopping them.
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Never have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for so long
Those arenât 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 âTroika of Tyranny,â Boltonâs long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off
Boltonâs new âTroika of Tyrannyâ speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administrationâs Latin America policy.
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Brazil: Workersâ 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 didnât want you to see
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The LobbyâUSA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israelâs covert influence campaign in the United States.
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With Samir Amin by our side
Brazilâs 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 Forestâas he promisesâit will be catastrophic for life.
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Who will control the Earthâs 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 âcrazy extremistâ 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 oppressionâbut both pursue austerity and war.
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Trump and Boltonâs new motto: how I started to stop worrying and love the bomb
The key issue is the U.S.âs desire to return to the 90âs status of the worldâs 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 HernĂĄndez, who was reelected in November through blatant electoral fraud.
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How can we make âAbolish ICEâ a reality?
Two of the immigrant rights movement’s historic demands provide a basis for actually closing the agency, and beyond that for building a movement to demand more fundamental changes.
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Sciences of inequality
Last month, Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (whose important work I have written about before), issued a tweet about the new poverty and healthcare numbers in the United States along with a challenge to the administration of Donald Trump (which in June decided to voluntarily remove itself from membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council after Alston issued a report on his 2017 mission to the United States).