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Theoretical contributions of Samir Amin (1931-2018)
The Egyptian-born social scientist and activist Samir Amin wrote extensively on political economy and the challenges for the peripheral capitalist states. He died in a Paris, France hospital on 12 August 2018 at the age of 86.
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Colombia’s peace crumbles as social leaders killed with impunity
“In a country subsumed in terror and violence, it is easier to subdue the population and enslave them to work in favor of big capital.” (Camilo Bonilla, 2018)
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Facebook’s new propaganda partners
Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and funded by the U.S. government.
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“Yo Soy” (I Am): an act of visual rebellion by Victor Garcia
Garcia’s series highlights the imposition of racism as an insidious paradigm, defining who is, and what makes, an “American.”
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Sorry, not sorry
Sorry to Bother You threw down the gauntlet. We can no longer afford to stick to the script.
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Guest Media Alert
The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.
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Washington walkouts win teachers big raises
Fifteen districts started the school year on strike in Washington state—the latest to ride the West Virginia wave.
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The new class-blindness
Legal advocates have scored some major class-related victories in 2018. In January, an appellate court held that the administration of California’s money bail system violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of indigent defendants.
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What happens when the ‘alt-right’ starts believing in climate change?
What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?
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Labor and human social metabolism (part 1)
Our global ecological crisis has created an increasing interest in Marx’s theory of metabolic rift as a crucial aspect of capitalism (Foster 2013). To appreciate fully how capitalism creates this rift, it is important to examine the human metabolic relation with nature in general and theoretical terms.
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Dossier 8: The uprooting in Haiti
In 1980, the magazine Tricontinental, published by the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), dedicated its issue no. 119 to Haiti. The editors wrote, ‘Very little is known about the Haitian people’s struggle,’ as the imperialists have ‘erected a wall of silence around Haiti.’
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Censored documentary exposes Israel’s attack on Black Lives Matter
Israeli operatives and their U.S. lobbyists sprang into action when the Movement for Black Lives came out in support of the boycott Israel movement.
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Maduro’s Beijing visit spooks a U.S. plotting Venezuela’s isolation
Given the humble goal of Caracas to free itself from the domineering whims of a U.S. imperialism keen on reviving the notorious Monroe Doctrine, it is obvious why the U.S. would see sinister motives in the fraternal reception Beijing has offered to the Venezuelan head of state.
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5 reasons not to vaccinate your child
Ignorance is not a crime. And neither is non-vaccination, for now.
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Venezuela poses no ‘threat to the world’—but WaPo’s claim that it does is dangerous
The phrase “a threat to the world” has a hyperlink to an earlier Tharoor piece (3/1/18), which includes the claim, “As many as 4 million Venezuelans—more than 10 percent of the population—have already left the country, according to the Brookings Institution,”
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Sadly, there is no strike wave
In a September 8 post to the Jacobin website, Eric Dirnbach announced that “U.S. workers are striking again.”
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Marronage meets Bolivarian Socialism: Maroon Comix, a Review
VA’s Jeanette Charles reviews Maroon Comix, a book that tells the tales of maroons’ fight for freedom and self-determination and their legacy for today’s struggles.
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By inviting and disinviting Bannon, New Yorker fell into its own trap
Corporate media just can’t stop cluelessly digging their own grave.
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Gender, Labor, & Law with Emma Caterine
In this episode, we speak with Emma Caterine (@emmacaterineDSA), a law graduate and writer with more than a decade of experience working within economic justice, feminist, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements. We talk Democratic Socialists of America, MMT, the advantages of a federal jobs guarantee over a universal basic income, the place for sex work in a jobs guarantee program.
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Nicaragua: ‘Scientific American should try sticking to science’
The last thing we need is to introduce all of the world’s political conflicts into climate change policy, writes Dr. Paul Oquist, Nicaragua’s chief climate negotiator.