As the Revolving Door Spins, Lobbyists Hired for Top Jobs in Congress Yet Again
The newly elected Congress is hiring a wave of corporate lobbyists to fill key staff roles.
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Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough to Eradicate a Virus – Lessons from History
Smallpox eradication teaches that high-tech vaccinations only work when they are effectively combined with low-tech public health strategies.
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Iran’s 1979 Revolution: A Brief History
Iran’s Revolution is generally understood to have begun on January 7, 1978, and continued until the Shah fled the country on January 16, 1979. The revolution was brewing for decades though …
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Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom.
The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply. Also: Mexico Offers Asylum to Assange.
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Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis and the Complicity of Imperialists – Two Articles
As long as the US and UK continue their political and military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, there will be no solution to the country’s humanitarian or political situation. Also: Not just to Yemen, the US controls half the arms market in the Middle East.
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Blows Against the Empire – 2020 In Memoriam
Not only did the imperialist system prove incapable of handling COVID-19 in a reasonable manner, it has also hastened the crumbling of the US empire. A chronology of 2020’s most salient events.
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The Contagion of Capital: Financialized Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Great Divide
Comprehending the basic parameters of today’s financialized capitalist system is the key to understanding the economic stagnation plaguing the production system as well as the accumulation of wealth by a few.
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Covid, Brexit and Dreadnought: UK Slides into Economic and Social Turmoil
Britain, led by a poseur whose self-esteem is akin to that of the equally repellent Trump, is in a parlous economic condition, and is suffering from social rupture of a viciousness unknown in recent history.
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The Long Shot of Democratic Socialism Is Our Only Shot
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
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World Bank and IMF: 76 Years Is Enough! Abolition!
The author makes an assessment of the World Bank and its alter ego the IMF and proposes to abolish them as well as the WTO in order to replace them with other global and democratic institutions.
