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EU economies are down on their knees
On July 1 at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.”
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The CIA & the Frankfurt school’s anti-communism
Frankfurt School critical theory has been—along with French theory—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. Together, they serve as the common source for so many of the trend-setting forms of theoretical critique that currently dominate the academic market in the capitalist world, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to queer theory, Afro-pessimism and beyond.
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Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
Long seen as means to seek advantage on the pretext of providing mutual benefit, free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.
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The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
I have two favorite sayings. One draws on the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
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There are hungry people. There are hungry people: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reports that, every minute, a child is pushed into hunger in fifteen countries most ravaged by the global food crisis.
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The heart of the matter
The Supreme Court’s undermining of the EPA’s ability to fight climate change brings the terms and stakes of the current crisis into blinding focus.
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Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and U.S. Federal Reserve’s “austerity program to reduce wages” and boost unemployment. He warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.
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Between the sword and the neck: why the Arab streets rejects Zionist normalization with Arab states
U.S. media outlets and politicians have nearly all parroted the same praises of the recent “peace agreements” between Israel and the repressive U.S.-backed governments of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.
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Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the crime of insubordination
Empires never forgive rebels; an insubordinate rebel plants a seed that can sprout many generations later.
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Imperial narrative control has five distinct elements
All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.
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Roberts is the man behind the curtain
The Chief Justice’s rulings legalizing corruption built the foundation of this era’s extremist laws and court precedents.
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Koch machine pressing Supreme Court to crush EPA
Dark money groups funded by the fossil fuel billionaire are lobbying justices to block the agency from limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Rightwing’s Supreme Court Coup
THE OFFICIAL overturn of Roe v. Wade was announced as this issue of ATCgoes to press. It didn’t require a white-nationalist riot, invading the Capitol at the instigation of Donald Trump, to tear huge holes in long-established constitutional rights in the United States. Where that frontal assault failed, a flanking maneuver by the right wing has met with success — including a blatant pseudo-constitutional coup by Court.
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Transcending the ‘imperial mode of living’
An interview with political scientist Ulrich Brand
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Corbyn on the Establishment’s campaign against him
In an interview with Matt Kennard, the former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.
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Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the U.S. and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the U.S. intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine.
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The Supreme Court and radical environmental deregulation
In the face of today’s complex, technological world, conservative state attorneys general and right-wing jurists are demanding a degree of legislative specificity that is impossible for non-experts to articulate.
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The Supreme Court, rights, and judicial abdication
The Supreme Court Justices have left town for the summer. Their sense of justice departed a few months ago, along with their fidelity to the history and text of the Constitution.
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Ian Menter Raymond Williams and Education: History, Culture, Democracy
In the 1950s and early 1960s, a group of remarkably talented left-wing intellectuals (almost all men) emerged in Britain, focusing both upon the radical interpretation and development of the core disciplines of the humanities: literature and history, and to a lesser extent, politics and philosophy; and also upon socialist political activism.
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NATO blockades Kaliningrad
With the success of Russia’s operations in Ukraine, we have to be concerned about NATO reacting to their strategic defeat by shifting their aggression not only to intense economic and propaganda warfare against Russia but also against Russia’s position in the Baltic region.