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Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela
As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’
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Majdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence
The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
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The spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
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This is the Haitian people’s chance to break their chains again
After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.
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Democratic involution
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
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Wang Yi: The historic step from peaceful coexistence to a shared future for humanity
With China having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, on July 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi published an important article outlining the historical progression from the Five Principles to President Xi Jinping’s vision of a shared future for humanity and their interrelationship of continuity, inheritance, application and development.
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The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2024)
From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.
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Netanyahu’s speech was as American as it gets
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
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Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
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China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups
BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.
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The dialectic and why it matters to Marxists
Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.
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Loss of empire, loss of lucidity
As the United States’ imperial system and Western hegemony circles the drain, lucid thought is becoming a rare commodity. But there is hope.
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U.S. media downplays and ignores ICJ ruling declaring Israeli occupation illegal
The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.
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American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism
The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.
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Feeling the heat: capitalism and global warming
Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023.
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NATO/U.S. complicity in the relentless Israeli genocide of Gaza
As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that “political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field.”
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China dominates AI innovation: 74.7% of Global GenAI patents
Outpacing the U.S. 6 to 1.
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“Voices for African Liberation”
In 1974, 50 years ago, the newly launched Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) journal boldly announced its intentions in the first editorial, “Appropriate analysis and the devising of a strategy for Africa’s revolution must be encouraged and we hope that the provision of this platform for discussion will assist that process”.
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AI and the digital scramble for Africa
We are told that Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for advancing democratic concerns and human rights across Africa. Yet, there are also early indicators that AI could undermine democratic institutions and processes, especially if these technologies prioritise colonial-capitalist development trajectories. Scott Timcke looks at some of the issues at stake.