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America’s unfinished revolution: Where do the George Floyd protests go from here?
It takes but a few minutes for the ruling elite to recast collective calls for an end to state violence against black people into images of the criminality of black protesters and to call for an end to looting.
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Inauthentic behavior: SouthFront is the latest victim of the Facebook banhammer
The censorship of alternative media is becoming more widespread. The latest victim to fall to Facebook and YouTube’s overzealous banhammer is well-known conflict watchdog website, SouthFront.
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Freedom Rider: Rebellion, confusion, scoundrels and Kente cloth
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account.
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Viruses & imperialism
Despite conspiracy theories, there is no evidence whatsoever that the virus was manufactured in or escaped from a laboratory, in China or anywhere else. Such accusations ignore how easy viral transmission can be when other factors come into play.
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Fred Hampton: Black Panther and red revolutionary
Fred Hampton’s politics are a lesson in how to fight racism and capitalism together, argues Sean Ledwith
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Tear down the racist statues, end racist debt and pay for reparations
Bring down the statues, surely. But more than that: cancel the debt and provide reparations to the formerly colonized for the centuries of theft and brutality.
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The economy: we are still in big trouble
The announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the federal unemployment rate declined to 13.3 percent in May, from 14.7 percent in April, took most analysts by surprise. The economy added 2.5 million jobs in May, the first increase in employment since February. Most economists had predicted further job losses and a rise in the unemployment rate to as high as 20 percent.
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Economic collapse and unemployment councils—then and now
Hunger, homelessness, and evictions were features of the Great Depression in the United States. Jobs disappeared and working conditions deteriorated. Some “250,000 teenagers were on the road.” And how many others? By 1933 one third of farm families had lost their farms. Unemployment that year was 25 percent. The lives of working people were devastated.
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China suspends debt repayment for 77 developing nations, regions
China has announced the suspension of debt repayment for 77 developing countries and regions as the nation is working with other G20 members to carry out the G20 debt relief initiative for low-income countries, Chinese officials said at a press briefing at the State Council Information Office on Sunday.
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Fake taxis among the latest tools in the NYPD’s rights-busting crackdown on protesters
The NYPD is famous for violating civil rights so it comes as no surprise that protests over the police brutality in the city have elicited a violent crackdown from the city’s finest.
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Police targeting NLG legal observers at Black Lives Matter protests
Since protests have spread to all 50 states in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black people, law enforcement has responded with a violent show of force against protestors as well as journalists, street medics, and legal support.
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Gautam Navlakha’s struggle for justice
Indian activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha is in prison as part of what many observers have termed a crackdown on dissent in India. The 68-year-old has been fighting a years-long legal battle against the Indian state.
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The U.S. rebellion for black lives
As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society.
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Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement are linked to historical lynchings
U.S. counties where lynchings were more prevalent from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved killings
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We crunched the numbers: Police — not protesters — are overwhelmingly responsible for attacking journalists
WE ARE WITNESSING a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists are being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
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Chart of the day
At the highest of levels of unemployment following the 2007-08 crash, there were 15.3 million jobless Americans.
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From George Floyd back to the structural violence of capitalism
Across the country—in city after city—the people have erupted in righteous indignation to George Floyd’s recorded lynching. His extrajudicial murder set off a rebellion that had been primed by the highly publicized white-vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the botched, “no-knock” police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her bed.
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The Movement gets BIG–and its enemies reveal themselves
When things seem like they’re coming apart, we need to ask: for whom? it may be that things are finally coming together.
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White House forced to retract claim viral videos prove Antifa is plotting violence
THE WHITE HOUSE engaged in an extraordinary act of rumor-mongering on Wednesday, releasing a compilation of viral video clips posted on social media recently by people who believed, wrongly, that the piles of bricks they came across had been planted there by anti-fascist activists, known as Antifa, to inspire violence at protests.
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Goliath is not invincible
Last year, I walked with Mariela Machado in her housing complex known as Kaikachi in the neighbourhood of La Vega (Caracas, Venezuela). After Hugo Chávez was inaugurated president in 1999, a group of working-class residents of the city saw an empty piece of land and occupied it. Mariela and others went to the government and said, ‘We built this city.