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B’nai Brith’s lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy
On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).
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How trans rights activists changed Argentina
Ten years ago Argentina passed groundbreaking gender identity laws, a victory won through solidarity, diverse tactics and longstanding activist traditions. The experience has lessons for us all, write Alessandra Viggiano and Siobhán McGuirk.
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Polls show almost no one trusts U.S. media, after decades of war propaganda and lies
The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify U.S. wars. Today just 11% of North Americans trust television news.
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Glen Ford’s irreplaceable journalism
In the best sense of the word a journalist is someone who brings to the public sphere accurate, well sourced information, and rigorous analysis.
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An interview with John Pilger: “Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world”
Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange’s extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Rebuilding collective intelligence
Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes. David Ridley says we need a socialist alternative.
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Studying society for the working class: Marx’s first preface to “Capital”
In the preface to the first edition of volume one of Capital, dated July 25, 1867, Marx introduces the book’s “ultimate aim”: “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society”. Looking back 155 years later, it’s clear the book not only accomplished that aim but continues to do so today.
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Israeli Supreme Court rules citizens can be stripped of status for ‘breach of loyalty’
Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population.
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The PAIGC’s political education for liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74
The liberation struggle against colonialism, if it is to be a total liberation struggle, is not only for the political conquest of territory (‘flag independence’); it is a struggle to liberate the people from the tentacles of colonialism.
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National Security search engine: Google’s ranks are filled with CIA agents
Google–one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world–is filled with ex-CIA agents.
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Biology at another crossroads
Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin’s publication of The Dialectical Biologist in 1985 provided a gestalt moment which remains just as valid and applicable decades after the book’s publication, if not even more so.
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White man’s media: legacy media in the U.S. and UK frames and conditions our thinking and actions
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’.
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Breaking the map with the machete’s edge: the internationalism of the landless
Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil’s MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps.
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Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused
The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.
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Dossier no. 54: Gramsci in the midst of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST): an interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto
Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge.
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On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: evolution of a working-class poet
Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty.
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Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ adviser secretly in pay of U.S. regime change agency
Platforms such as Facebook on alleged state-backed online influence campaigns–has itself received $1.2 million from U.S. intelligence front USAID, for “counter disinformation and communications support.”
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Standardized testing
Did it ever strike you as odd that the foundation on which standardized testing is based is a self-contradiction?
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UK bill threatens journalist with life in prison
Journalists And Publishers Could Face Life Sentences If National Security Bill 2022, Being Debated In The U.K. Parliament, Becomes Law.
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The imaginary war
What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out to be imaginary, a Marvel Comics of a conflict with little grounding in reality? I have wondered about this since the Russian intervention began on Feb. 24. I knew the answer would be interesting when finally we had one.