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Why the Inflation Reduction Act is less a “Climate Bill” and more a poison pill for Black and Indigenous communities and movements
Among other problematic issues, the so-called climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act allow for more oil drilling on federal lands. Greenwashing and Democratic party duplicity are nothing to celebrate for Black and Indigenous communities.
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Will the Manchin Climate Bill reduce climate pollution?
The media coverage on the Inflation Reduction Act touts its 42% emissions reductions, but we dove into the math and it just doesn’t add up.
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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution
Former political prisoners have found refuge in the Caribbean-Island socialist state.
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The People’s Steel Plant and the fight against privatisation in Visakhapatnam
The story of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is not only a story about its workers. Their resistance, aspirations, and victories are part of a wider canvas that is interwoven with struggles to defend the public sector, confrontations with neoliberalism, and the fight to carry out a national modernisation project. Each collage in this dossier combines […]
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My seventy years and the departed GDR
It’s a momentous day! Not for the world–for which it’s nothing special. But for me!
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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok all have in common?
The social media outlets are an open door to organizations like NATO, military suppliers, and the Atlantic Council, with executives making decisions about what content is allowed to circulate widely on social media and what content is encouraged to support U.S. foreign policy goals.
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A next-level water crisis: Colorado River Basin faces Tier 2 restrictions
The unprecedented move arrives as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use.
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How NOT to win friends and influence people
After four years of Trump’s ‘America first’ isolationism, U.S. President Joe Biden announced “America is back”. His White House has since tried to find allies against China and Russia.
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Debt and the transition to regenerative agriculture
I grew up in a small town in Vermont, and like many I learned to love the smell of fresh cow manure being spread on fields in the spring.
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For China heat waves are the ‘new normal’ under climate change
It’s not a mirage. Across China, heat waves are becoming more frequent, lasting longer, and getting hotter — with deadly consequences.
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India’s Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism is rooted in the crisis of neoliberalism (Interview)
Renowned Indian economist and political analyst Prabhat Patnaik spoke with Bengali newspaper Ganashakti about the present state of India’s economy and politics, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence from British colonial rule.
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Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism
Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke
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Why Coinbase’s balance sheet has massively inflated
Coinbase recently filed its interim financial report. It makes pretty grim reading. A quarterly net loss of over $1bn, net cash drain of £4.6bn in 6 months, fair value losses of over 600k…
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Puerto Rico’s colonial government collapses
For the first time in its history, the people of Puerto Rico are seeing the total collapse of the island’s colonial administration, mainly due to the open corruption of the two traditional parties, both of which promote integration into the United States and/or the permanence of the colonial regime.
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The sword of Bolivar is wielded again by the people of Latin America
On August 7, 2022, Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Márquez, were inaugurated as the President and Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia.
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Dr. Oz pushes Medicare privatization for all
The New Jersey TV doctor wants to privatize Medicare—and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns.
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Achieving Earth for all
Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that governments ultimately have to respond to popular pressure–or be replaced by it.
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Sleeping at the wheel: The Uber Files, the media, and the coup against labor rights
The recent reporting on the Uber Files—a series of 124,000 communications, dated from 2013 until 2017, that Mark McGann, one of Uber’s top lobbyists, leaked to The Guardian—has shed light on the company’s strategies to gain global prominence during its nascent years.
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Who is Mick Lynch?
The rail workers’ leader offers the most visible opposition to Britain’s Tory government.
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A Unity of Opposites: The Dengist and the Red Guard
What would Losurdo and Badiou say about each other’s views on Mao? Losurdo would likely consider Badiou to be infected with Western Marxist abstractions and anarchism in his celebration of mass rebellion and disregard for the needs of realism. By contrast, Badiou would no doubt consider Losurdo to be a Stalinist cop, with his defense of order, normalcy, and the bureaucratic party-state.