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For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism
Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”
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Must dance and have a moustache
Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.
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Why Greenland? How Trump learned to love the bomb
As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland.
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Lemkin Institute issues ‘red flag alert for genocide’ after Musk’s Nazi salutes
“Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats,” the group said. “The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America.”
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Donald Trump is the empire unmasked
The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.
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Mexico prepares its consulates in the U.S. to face Trump’s mass deportations
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirms support for migrants amid Trump’s deportation plans, and proposes a regional summit to address the causes of immigration.
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Genocidal president, genocidal politics
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.”
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Goals behind Trump’s tariffs: cut taxes on rich & escalate new cold war on China
Donald Trump’s tariffs will not reduce U.S. public debt. The federal deficit will keep growing, but they will be an excuse to further cut taxes on the rich and to ratchet up the new cold war on China.
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The curious case of strengthening dollar, falling rupee
The primary cause of the rupee’s depreciation is the preference of the Indian rich to hold their wealth in the form of U.S. dollars rather than in Indian rupees.