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Chávez the Radical XXVII: ‘Beware of a Bolivarian Oligarchy!’
In this episode of “Chávez the Radical,” Chávez stresses that a new oligarchy cannot emerge from revolutionary ranks.
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Opinion: From ‘friendly’ state to enmity state
As Texas Republicans pit neighbor against neighbor, we must respond by rebuking bigotry and embracing progress.
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A-bomb survivors play “profound role” in COVID pandemic: U.S. scholar
Survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan have a “profound role” to play in catastrophes such as the coronavirus pandemic, a leading American psychohistorian renowned for his studies of people under stress told Kyodo News in a recent interview.
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A laboratory of empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman
In this segment of ‘The Watchdog’ video podcast, Lowkey is joined by comedian Aamer Rahman to explain how Australia maintains close political ties to the United Kingdom, with British Home Secretary Pritti Patel seeing the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.
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Pegasus: why the booming surveillance software industry is vulnerable to abuse; also: Snowden interview
The world’s most sophisticated commercially-available spyware may be being abused, according to an investigation by 17 media organisations in ten countries.
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How did Nicaragua reduce hunger and malnutrition?
Erika Takeo from Nicaragua’s Association of Rural Workers (ATC) and Rohan Rice, a writer and campaigner with the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign explain.
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Israeli soldiers killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy. Then, during his funeral, they killed someone else
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father’s car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed’s funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad.
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Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them
In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and even deploying teams of gerbils to sniff out anxious visitors.
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Dossier No. 43: CoronaShock and education in Brazil: One and a half years later
One and a half years since the beginning of the pandemic in Brazil, it is possible to better evaluate some of its effects. The most visible immediate aspect of the pandemic has certainly been the sudden suspension of in-person activities and the temporary closure of schools and universities.
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…For Brother Glen
A poem in remembrance of Glen Ford, whose untimely death on July 28, 2021, we deeply mourn.
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Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: U.S. gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’
Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become a key weapon in the U.S. government’s assault on the Cuban revolution.
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Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of “jigsaw identification”.
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Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture: Could Agroecology Prevent Further Pandemics?
The current complex of COVID-induced crises fits hand-in-glove with the system’s “normal” operation. Stability has been the delusional realm of a small sliver of the Global North, awash in post-World War Two imperialism and the repeated reinvention (and re-imposition) of various plantation systems of cheap and racialized labor.
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Building Digital Commons with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow joins Money on the Left to discuss what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) means for building digital commons. He walks us through his important critical genealogy of Intellectual Property law as well as his contribution to the urgent anti-monopoly accord called the “Access to Knowledge Treaty.”
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U.S. State Department lectures Cuba about human rights and living conditions
Today with the height of imperial arrogance and hubris, the U.S. State Department issued a joint statement to further its plans to destroy Cuba and all the gains it has made in health, education and welfare.
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Glen Ford, veteran journalist and founder of Black Agenda Report, dies at 71
Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.
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Syrian insurgents guilty of ‘red line’ 2013 sarin chemical attack, study finds
A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines U.S.-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost led to U.S. military intervention.
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Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign
On July 22, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris released a “fact sheet” on U.S. “measures” against Cuba. The release from the White House said that Cuba was a “top priority for the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Corporate Media joins the anti-vaxxers when it comes to Chinese- and Russian-made vaccines
“It’s striking how similar the techniques [are] that Fox News uses to frighten people about the U.S. vaccination campaign and those that The New York Times, Reuters and others use to scare people about Chinese vaccines.” — Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
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The demonisation of Mariátegui
During the campaign for the presidency of Peru, the rural teacher and candidate Pedro Castillo, emphasized his identity with the thought of José Carlos Mariátegui.