America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America
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America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America

The United States has the biggest, most efficiently organized, most effective system for recruiting child soldiers in the world. With uncharacteristic modesty, however, the Pentagon doesn’t call it that. Its term is “youth development program.”

Globalized Food Systems, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19
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Globalized Food Systems, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19

In the creation of capitalist, globalized food systems, patterns of structural inequality based on social class hierarchies and racism become ever more apparent and problematic. This article discusses these conditions, from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tokyo Games Prove that the Olympics are Less Relevant than Ever; Also – Overt Sexualisation at the Games
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The Tokyo Games Prove that the Olympics are Less Relevant than Ever; Also – Overt Sexualisation at the Games

We ought to focus on fixing our own problems rather than investing our scarce resources in a spectacle that costs us more than we can afford to give. Also – ‘Overt Sexualization’: Why Olympic Women Athletes Ran into Uniform Trouble Before the Games.

Cuba, China, Latin America and the World
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Cuba, China, Latin America and the World

Success of the U.S. in its hybrid war against Cuba would be a huge step forward for the U.S. in its fight against national independence in Latin America and the world, and in the new cold war against China. And hence the situation in Cuba is the key to the situation in Latin America today.