Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism
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Robbing the Soil – Part 1: Commons and Classes Before Capitalism

ByIan Angus

The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.

The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World
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The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World

ByC.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.

How Ernesto Guevara Became ‘Che’: The Motorcycle Diaries Revisited
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How Ernesto Guevara Became ‘Che’: The Motorcycle Diaries Revisited

ByJonah Raskin

In 1951 when Ernesto launched his motorcycle adventure, he wanted to be a swashbuckling hero, not a Marxist revolutionary or a guerrilla fighter. On the road, he became another person. He decided that “the poor” were the “unsung heroes” of Latin America.

Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
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Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion

ByMurtaza Hussain; and Jake Johnson

A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.

The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
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The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan

ByChris Floyd

A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.

WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
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WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture

ByTamara Pearson

Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”

Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women

ByFawzia Afzal-Khan

Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”

US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost

ByAaron Maté interviews Piero Gleijeses

Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.