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For African Americans, employing a radical internationalist perspective is not a luxury, but a necessity
Black people in this country must reconnect with the internationalist tradition in order to understand the crises taking place around the world and in the U.S. Domestic and international issues cannot be separated.
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High-value U.S. asset “Fat Leonard” arrested in Venezuela–possible prisoner swap
The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in U.S. military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the U.S. Navy out of at least $35 million.
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Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class
Mainstream media takes on the bad news on life expectancy barely mention international comparisons — notably ignoring China and Cuba — and neglect the political and economic context of the drop, writes WT WHITNEY Jr.
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From wounded Latin America, a demand comes to put an end to the irrational war on drugs: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)
The end of the War on Drugs, that is, the war on the Colombian peasantry, will only advance Colombia’s fragile struggle towards peace and democracy.
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How Wall Street profits off of the sick and elderly
As Congress helps out its private equity donors, new research shows what happens when those firms take over nursing homes and medical offices.
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Fossil fuels subsidized at rate of $11 million per minute
Eleven million dollars per minute! That’s how much all the countries in the world spend to subsidize fossil fuels. That’s what we pay.
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Labour conference delegate suspended after opposing arming Ukraine
A Labour conference delegate who spoke against uncritical support for the Ukrainian government on Tuesday has been suspended.
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Cuba’s families code a bold step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the hemisphere
Passed in a referendum with 67% of the vote, the law expands women’s, children’s, and gay and lesbian legal rights.
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Biden lies at the United Nations
U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence.
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Faina Savenkova – Bad children
What about UNICEF, the UN, Amnesty International? Have they said anything about the children killed by the Ukrainian army? No, of course not. Like in the Myrotvorets story. They know.
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Amidst the Biden administration’s forever-wars policy in Africa, BAP launches a month of action against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command)
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022—October 1, 2022 is the 14th anniversary of the launch of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). Yet, jihadist terrorist violence on the African continent has increased since the founding of AFRICOM and NATO’s destruction of Libya resulting in civilian casualties and instability, which the West has used as pretext and justification for the […]
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The Great Denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class
This summer’s strikes in Britain and the announcement by the RMT’s Mick Lynch that ‘the working class is back’ will have sent a collective shudder through the ranks of the establishment.
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How Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky of Newton, MA protect their children from Covid (but not yours)
Built on seven hills, Newton was one of America’s earliest commuter suburbs.
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From the Tops Market massacre to Ukraine’s war crimes in Donbass
Playgrounds are wonderful. I saw the joy when my child was between ages 3 and 8 playing on the playground. Here we have the science of physics and engineering used for the sole purpose of creating see-saws and swings designed to hold a child’s weight, manufacturing squeals of joy from children, not bombs.
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Britain takes aggressive anti-China line with hawkish PM Liz Truss
Liz Truss, the UK’s new prime minister, is the most anti-China British leader in decades. In the Conservative leadership contest that brought her to power, candidates competed to show who could be more belligerent against Beijing.
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Inflation phobia hastens recessions, debt crises
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27, 2022 (IPS)—Inflation phobia among central banks (CBs) is dragging economies into recession and debt crises. Their dogmatic beliefs prevent them from doing right. Instead, they take their cues from Washington: the U.S. Fed, Treasury and Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs). Costly recessions Both BWIs—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World […]
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Class struggle against growth
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide To a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan (Verso 2022) and Climate Change is Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso 2022) are Verso’s two most recent “guides” to combating the climate crisis.
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Free market genocides: The real history of trade
Yves here. This piece gives a wide ranging, historically based description of how free market ideology supported colonialist exploitation and often expropriation under the banner of trade.
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New documents reveal callousness of fossil fuel execs—and Canada’s complicity
If your climate policy is supported by the oil and gas industry, it’s not climate policy at all
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From book burning to racist babies
On the 40th Anniversary of Banned Books Week, Jim Mamer examines the way in which more school districts are banning books that are narrowly focused on LGBTQIA+ issues, sexual identity issues, and the roots of racial tension.