Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Kafka Would Understand: Even Dead Must Prove They’re Dead
The story from Odisha is not just a reminder about a brother and his dead sister. It is about the distance between policy and practice.
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Capitalism | China | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
China Confronts the US; Russia Expresses Solidarity with Iran – 3 Articles
‛Can China Curb Trump’s Gambit in Hormuz?’; ‛Beijing Confronts US Sanctions on Refineries’: Within six days of the Russian President Putin rendering a forceful advice to the US President Donald Trump to abandon the path of war in Iran, Beijing has delivered a humiliating rebuff to the US move to sanction Chinese oil refineries. Also: ‛Ceasefire Served US’s Purpose in Iran War’.
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Europe Begins to Break with the US-Israel Axis – 2 Articles
‛The Pendulum Swings: The Slow Death of Europe’s Pro-Israel Consensus’; ‛Exit Ramps from the U.S.: New Coalitions of the Willing’: As allied confidence in U.S. commitments weakens, and as Trump signals that the lack of trust is mutual, governments are increasingly searching for alternatives.
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US Imperialism in Latin America: Gangsters, Dictators, and Corporate Plunder
‛Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA’; ‛New Gangsters for Capitalism’: While most of the world (and the media) is all too reasonably focused on the ever-evolving, increasingly disastrous conflicts in Iran and Lebanon, one shouldn’t forget US aggression in Latin America.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | Racism | USA
The US Supreme Court’s Assault on Black Voting Rights – 3 Articles
‛The US Supreme Court, Race and the Right to Vote’: On the US Supreme Court’s demolition of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the law that brought an end to the Jim Crow system of post-Civil War legalised racial segregation. Also: ‛Supreme Court Attacks Black Voting Rights, Native Nations’; and: ‛Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow’.
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Finance Capital and Private Credit Markets in the Shadow of the US-Israel War on Iran – 2 Articles
‛Finance Capital in the Age of Aggression’: With the US and Israel declaring war on Iran, profits from defence production are set to increase. But finance capital is staying away and seeking higher yields elsewhere. Also: ‛Militarised AI, Private Credit, and Iran War’.
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Capitalism | China | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
How China Prepared for the New Global Food Crisis, Caused by the US War on Iran
The US-Israeli war on Iran has unleashed a massive global food crisis. China is prepared, because its state-owned enterprises maintain the largest food reserves in human history. This is how they work.
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The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang; and: Reply to the Article – 2 Articles
‛The Idea of the “Uyghur Genocide” and the Realities of Xinjiang’: According to the authors, there is no evidence of a policy of physical annihilation of the Uyghur peoples by the Chinese government – the hallmarks of a genocide. Also: ‛Dismissing China’s Repression in Xinjiang: A Reply to Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak’.
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Plastic Pollution: A Growing Threat to Marine Ecosystems, Human Health, and the Planet – 2 Articles
‛How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain’; ‛Plastics: The “Terrible Debris of Progress”’: Because of the plethora of toxic chemicals added to it, plastics are now associated with the rise of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, reproductive cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
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Understanding the Resilience of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution – 2 Articles
‛Venezuela’s Window of Opportunity for Economic Recovery: Buying Time to Rebuild While Under Siege’: Although progressives are rightly concerned about US-coerced compromises and concessions, it is equally important to understand the resilience of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Also: ‛What Cannot Be Unlearned: The Defense of the Bolivarian Revolution’.
