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Amazonian Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ People and the Bolivarian process: Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)
A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.
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The Bloody Rise of the West – Part 2
THE impact of the West’s encounter with the Americas was devastating for its people.
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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Matter in motion: Dialectical philosophy’s role in science
In this second article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at dialectics and its relevance to understanding change in the natural world.
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The Gates of the Great Continent: Palestine, China, and the War for Humanity’s Future (Part 2)
Notwithstanding Mao’s admonition to his PLO visitors to avoid book worship—including and especially of his own works—his writings on guerrilla warfare had by then become canon, and for good reason.
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Experiments with truth, India: Truth and dare in Bhima Koregaon
The Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad ‘Maoist’ conspiracy case is a grand experiment with truth where the State is daring the people to stand up for justice.
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Agent Zelensky – Part 2
In the intelligence business, every agent is assigned tasks by his or her handlers. In the case of Agent Zelensky, I’ve identified ten obligations that define his relationship with his foreign intelligence masters.
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Circumventing the Blockade: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part II)
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
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The Future of Work (Part 2) – working long and hard
In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work which has mushroomed since the COVID pandemic.
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How the U.S. came to dominate Haiti: seizing the gold
The Banque Nationale d’Haiti (BNH) was housed in a whitewashed, two-story colonial building at the corner of rues Ferou and Américaine in the downtown business district of Port-au-Prince.v
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Realism, idealism, and the deradicalization of Critical Race Theory—Rethinking The CRT Debate, Part 2
Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst. From corporate media and right-wing rags to independent left media, almost everyone has misrepresented or misunderstood the origins, histories, and theories of what is today known as CRT. This three-part series corrects these misunderstandings. Part 1 provides […]
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
“The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)
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Venezuela’s gangs have been turned into armed capitalist enterprises (Part II)
Criminologist Andrés Antillano examines a high-profile security operation to neutralize criminal activity in the Cota 905 district in July.
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Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.