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How to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).
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Contesting the idea of progress: Labor’s AI challenge
The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]
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As U.S. puppets the Australian political class rejects international humanitarian law
The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to actively seek to stop Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid, and to cease military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, trade, political, and legal relations with the Israeli occupation.
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Could the Sahel Alliance divide Africa?
Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL Alliance states are charting a watershed that could divide Africa in two and determine a new historical course for the entire continent.
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Finnish capitalism at a tipping point: Resisting racism, austerity, and militarism
The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).
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President Petro is not alone: Colombia marches against coup attempt
Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro.
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As French embassy closes in Niger, West Africa charts a new course
Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region.
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Israel uses military assassinations to legitimize civilian massacres
Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.
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CIA says no evidence Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon
The comments from CIA Director William Burns come amid calls for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Social media beyond corporate control
Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.
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GDR at 75: The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process
The German Democratic Republic was a milestone in the world revolutionary process.
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Peace was paramount
The state doctrine of the GDR was: “Never again must a war start from German soil.”
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Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis
Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine.
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Exposing bias against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates is predictably accused of bias by CBS
Acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates returned to nonfiction with his essay collection The Message, published on October 1, only to be met with patronizing dismissal and a whiff of racism on CBS Mornings
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Whitewashing imperialism: The Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela
Every time Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewed threats to its survival, a stratum of U.S.-based intellectuals is always ready with ‘left’ critiques that deliberately obscure the permanent imperialist siege against the country.
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The Genesis of Cultural-Historical Theory in Vygotsky’s manuscripts of 1926
The present article aims to analyze a restricted set of notes made by Vygotsky, between 1925 and 1926.
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Sixty years after Kubrick’s film, meet the U.S.’s real Dr. Strangelove
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk.
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Israel’s impunity endangers us all
The West’s failure to bring Israel to justice for its genocide in Gaza has emboldened it to attack Lebanon—and brought the region to the brink of all-out war.