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The billionaires and establishment officials unleashing violence against the student movement
Behind the efforts of the powerful to unleash chaos against students protesting for Palestine.
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The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.
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Vulture capitalism
Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune, and a regular panellist on political debates in broadcasting—often the only spokesperson on the left advocating socialist alternatives.
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CIA targeting smartphone app data
The same agencies that used and abused private user data with total impunity for years are being granted responsibility for crafting their own internal policies for what is and isn’t acceptable to intercept, analyse, exploit, and act upon.
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Unions support student protestors against campus administrators and police
More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.
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A mad world: Capitalism and the rise of mental illness
What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?
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Jewish Council calls for universities to immediately halt actions against anti-war students
Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.
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Chicanery versus humanity
The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.
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Schools should protect trans youth, not ‘out’ them
Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.
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How U.S. Big Tech supports Israel’s AI-powered genocide and apartheid
As an extension of U.S. imperial power, U.S. tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities.
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Letters of protest: Colleges suppress dissent while closing their eyes to genocide, extended version
As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.
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From PropOrNot to New Lines: How Washington is weaponizing media
If you read the Wikipedia entries for many alternative media outlets, they are written off as fringe conspiracy websites pushing debunked foreign propaganda. MintPress News, for example, is described as a “far-left news website” which “publishes disinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories.”
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Unfurling love from the window
A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.
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TikTok law is an attempt to censor, not a warning to Big Tech
As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.
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Media scorn Gaza protesters for recognizing corporate reporters aren’t their friends
An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.
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Communist Party of Israel-Hadash: Netanyahu’s fascist government on verge of causing humanitarian disaster in Rafah
“Israel’s fascist government is on the verge of bringing about a humanitarian disaster in Rafah,” Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) says in a common statement on Monday, May 6.
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Mitt Romney says Congress supports banning TikTok for Israel
Antony Blinken says Israel is losing the PR war because of social media.
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Aesthetics after Autonomy with Grant Kester
Money on the Left is joined by Grant Kester, professor of Art History at University of California, San Diego. We speak with Kester about his multi-decade career, researching and teaching the history of socially engaged art.
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As peace protests are violently suppressed, CNN paints them as hate rallies
As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.
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Humboldt and Gaza: Berlin Bulletin No. 222, May 4, 2024
It was May 10th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.… No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!