Agro-Imperialism in the Time of Covid-19
The supply chains of the big food companies, which have always been dangerous places for workers, have now become hotspots for Covid-19 infections and transmission.
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PetroCaribe is at the heart of a geopolitical battle in the Carribean
This article explores the history of the PetroCaribe Agreement and its relationship to anti-corruption protests in Haiti.
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Essential—and Expendable—Mexican Labor
In the days of Covid-19, the US is effectively exporting Covid-19 deaths through considerable official pressure on Mexico to keep the maquiladoras running, despite high infection rates.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
Could the Duterte Regime be COVID-19’s Next Victim?
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
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Capitalism | Economy | Fascism | USA | World Politics
It’s Time We Called Trump Fascist – Two Articles
The problem is not Trump, but a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. If we do not stand up, we will enter a new dark age.
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The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left
A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s.
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75 Years After Trinity: The Human Cost of Nuclear Tests
Talk of new U.S. testing deeply concerns those who have first-hand knowledge of nuclear devastation.
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The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
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“Coronavirus and Black Lives Matters is a Double Revolution that Can Help Release Africa from the Empire”
Prof. Tandon talks about the balance sheet of the West’s Development Cooperation aid programs in Africa, the 60th anniversary of African independence, and the risks related to the coronavirus pandemic but also the opportunities it may offer to strengthen African sovereignty.
