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Working more, making less: Life under “Bidenomics”
Political commentators aligned with the Democratic Party are expressing growing frustration about this “disconnect.”
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Workers are dying from the heat: Why is it so hard to protect them?
No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
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CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism
The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.
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New study finds overwhelming evidence of harms from fracking
A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking. Authors say that “no rules or regulations can make these practices safe.”
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Israeli war crimes and propaganda follow U.S. blueprint
The wars and the killing go on, day after day, year after year, out of sight and out of mind for most Americans.
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Columbia University suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace’
Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.
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Canada’s steadfast support for Big Agriculture’s assault on Mexican biodiversity
Although Mexico has maintained a ban on genetically modified (GM) corn since the 1990s, the move by Mexican President Andres Manuel Luiz Obrador (AMLO) in 2020 to eventually ban the import of GM corn in order to promote domestic cultivation of native varieties has threatened to spark a trade war with the United States.
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The death of Al-Shifa Hospital, the last bastion of humanity in northern Gaza
People are dead in the streets in Gaza as hospital staff are unable to help the injured crying out for help outside hospitals. Medical workers who attempt to aid them are targeted and killed. No one is left to document the scale of the genocide.
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Foolish exclusions: China and the Bletchley Declaration on AI
At the conclusion of the Second World War, debates raged on how best to regulate the destructive power of the atom.
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Leaked: British spies constructed Zionist propaganda network
It is uncertain what came of Lafayeedney’s meetings in “Israel”. But not long after, the campaign to torpedo Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister became turbocharged.
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The horror, the horror
Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza.
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Special interview with Khaled Barakat: Gaza demands end of genocide, not ‘ceasefire’
Orinoco Tribune interviewed Palestinian activist and author Khaled Barakat about Palestine and the Palestinian struggle in the context of the Israeli occupation’s genocidal aggression against Gaza following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7.
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Republicans and Democrats unite to push for Assange’s freedom
Sixteen members of Congress signed a letter to President Biden urging him to drop the case against the WikiLeaks founder.
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From Gaza and Cuba, they ask–are you human like us?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)
More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli armed forces in Gaza since 7 October, nearly half of them children, according to the most recent report by spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health Dr Ashraf Al-Qudra.
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Al-Aqsa Flood: Imperialism, Zionism and Reactionism in the 21st Century
On October 7, 2023, between 2-3,000 Palestinian fighters from various political factions, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) among others, broke the 16-year-old siege of Gaza.
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BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is ‘Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.’
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The Free Speech exception
Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
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U.S. regime change activist named Web Summit CEO after founder forced out for condemning Israeli ‘war crimes’
The CEO of one of the world’s leading tech conferences was forced to resign after criticizing Israel’s assault on Gaza. He was quickly replaced by one of the industry’s most prominent U.S. government-affiliated regime change specialists.
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Israel-Palestine war: UK seeks to brand anyone who ‘undermines’ country as extremist
Muslim Council of Britain among several organizations that would be ‘captured’ by new definition, according to leaked documents.
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Israeli doctors urge the bombing of Gaza hospitals
Dozens of Israeli doctors told the Israeli army that it must bomb Gaza’s hospitals, stating that “the residents of Gaza” have “brought their annihilation upon themselves” for allowing hospitals to become “terrorist nests.”