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‘Jewish dream’ turns into nightmare: ‘fantasy Israel’ faces moment of truth
The definition of Israel as an Apartheid State by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is a maturation of a long process of framing and reframing the Palestine issue.
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Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines
The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully.
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What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange’s freedom
At long last, these publications have acknowledged that the material published by Assange was of vital public interest and importance, noting that what he released “disclosed corruption, diplomatic scandals and spy affairs on an international scale” and “decisions that cost the country most heavily in lives and money.”
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Peru coup: CIA agent turned U.S. ambassador met with defense minister day before president overthrown
The U.S. ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as well as the Pentagon. One day before the coup against elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo, Kenna met with Peru’s defense minister, who then ordered the military to turn against Castillo.
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Leaked files: private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware
A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers.
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Stan Swamy’s laptop was ‘planted’ with incriminating documents, says new forensic report
The new findings were released after Arsenal Consulting, a U.S.-based digital forensics firm, examined an electronic copy of Swamy’s computer, at the request of his lawyers.
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‘Capitalism and Slavery’, and dismantling the accepted narratives of history
“When British capitalism depended on the West Indies,” Eric Williams wrote in 1938, “they ignored slavery or defended it. When British capitalism found the West Indian monopoly a nuisance, they destroyed West Indian slavery.”
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The United States and White supremacy at war with China
In 1904, Jack London, the most celebrated American writer of the time, was sent as a reporter to cover the war between Russia and Japan.
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U.S. youth observe Cuba’s elections – and learn about real democracy
A delegation of youth from the United States observed Cuba’s November 2022 municipal elections and offer an inside look into a true people’s democracy, where workers decide who will govern them, not wealthy oligarchs and corporations.
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Ian H Angus – “Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World”
There is much more here than can be covered in a brief review, including interesting discussions of language, laughter, neo-mercantile capitalism, digital information and abstract nature, a correlate to abstract labor.
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EO: Bearing witness in the hell of speciesism
Once upon a time Dostoevsky wrote a passage in The Idiot (1868) about an abused donkey passed from owner to owner which inspired Robert Bresson’s classic 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar.
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Aminata Dramane Traoré: “They want to lead us into war”
An interview with Aminata Dramane Traoré on the chaos caused by Western states in the Sahel and the interests of the international oligarchy.
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The World Cup isn’t over yet, but Palestine has already won
We can only guess at who might take home the World Cup. But Palestine has won people’s hearts and captivated the world’s attention—and its team isn’t even playing.
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Reject anti-intellectualism
A disingenuous trend is reemerging, bastardizing concepts of “accessibility” to attack and suppress radical efforts at political education. The focus on consistent ongoing political education is shot down as disconnected from the needs of the people.
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The ADL issues statement declaring Ukraine’s Azov Battalion no longer ‘far-right’
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has emailed The Grayzone a defense of the Azov Battalion and refused to condemn the Pentagon for honoring a veteran of the group who sports Nazi-inspired tattoos.
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Sander Claessens: ‘We defend a socialist society where people and the planet come first’
The president of the Comac student movement in Belgium spoke to Peoples Dispatch about organizing students and youth to fight against oppression and injustice
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Black Market in broad daylight
U.S. school kids, hospital patients, and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn “trash into treasure.”
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Musk’s Neuralink kills 1,500 animals in research rush, faces Federal probe
The medical device company is facing staff backlash over animal testing and complaints that Elon Musk is pressuring them to accelerate experiments.
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The incremental normalization of police murderbots probably needs more attention
The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use of killbots in specific emergency situations like active shooters and suicide bombers, with high-ranking officers making the call as to whether their use is warranted.
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An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s fight for dignity and land, 17 years on
On November 17, a photo exhibition titled ‘Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle’ opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor.