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Texas’ abortion ban is having a ‘domino effect’ on clinics across the U.S.
“We are seeing massive ripple effects across the country for other states taking on displaced patients.”
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Climate injustice at Glasgow COP-out
Former Irish President Mary Robinson observed, “People will see this as a historically shameful dereliction of duty,… nowhere near enough to avoid climate disaster.”
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Anti-communism, anti-Blackness, and imperialism
In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition‘s Anti-Communism & Imperialism panel discussion, Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly discusses how anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control.
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Helena Sheehan – ‘Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative’
The author of several books, including the definitive study ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History’, Professor Sheehan traces the historical entanglements of Science and Technology Studies with Marxist thought, as well as her own biography as a scholar and activist.
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Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn’t
U.S. has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow’s invasion plans and to justify NATO involvement.
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What role does the military play in climate change?
A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.
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Millions more want to quit
The “Great Resignation” refers to the millions of people who have quit their job over the past 20 months, “more than 4.4 million alone in September” which is about the same as the previous month.
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‘Saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising’: Rittenhouse acquitted
The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”
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UN Commission objects to OPCW report on Syria
The UN Commission on Syria does not consider as proven the alleged chemical weapons attack in April 2018.
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New ‘Union-Busting Tracker’ debuts online
On Nov. 6, a group of volunteers launched a Web page called the ‘Union-Busting Tracker’ to post examples of union-busting. Eleven days later, they’d listed 180 separate cases, naming the employers and the union-busting outfits they’d hired.
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COP26: greenwashing and Plutocratic misadventures
COP26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet’s looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe.
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WTO finished without TRIPS waiver
The World Trade Organization (WTO) will soon decide on a conditional temporary waiver of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
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‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’
CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
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There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs
Chilling testimony of the torture and abuses committed against Majid Khan, at the illegal U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, was recently presented by the prisoner.
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Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe
“Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list.
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Australian war propaganda keeps getting crazier
60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.
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U.S. workers in motion: an assessment of labor’s gains
The reality is that the labor movement has a long struggle ahead and it should not be distracted by unwarranted fears of inflation.
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451 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians since early 2020, says new B’Tselem report
The Israeli human rights group said that these settler attacks are used as a “major informal tool” by the state of Israel to displace Palestinians in order to confiscate and annex their lands.
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Defund the global climate wall
To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.
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Climate conspiracy theorists say it is suspicious that every single research paper says the EXACT same thing
A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they say is highly suspicious.