When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich
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When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich

The insurrection in Brasília emerged from the same dynamic that produced the coup in Peru: wherein ‘centrist’ political forces are funded and brought to power in the Global South to ensure that their own citizens remain at the rear of the queue, while the wealthy tax-free bondholders of the Global North remain at the front.

A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity
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A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity

Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.

Requiem for a Dream: 100 Years After the Founding of the USSR
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Requiem for a Dream: 100 Years After the Founding of the USSR

Everything that was criticised about the USSR, including the worst mistakes and unresolved problems of ‘real socialism’, are today the constant in the society we live in, magnified and multiplied many times over by the degeneration of the modern neoliberal capitalist world.

Washington’s “Democracy Promotion” Fails Spectacularly in Venezuela
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Washington’s “Democracy Promotion” Fails Spectacularly in Venezuela

The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. government to attempts to restore democracy suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What it considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president!

Thomas Friedman and the Myth of Liberal Israel
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Thomas Friedman and the Myth of Liberal Israel

Israel is putting together an aggressively racist rightwing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a logical outcome of a national point of view—represented by Israel’s Zionist state ideology—which has always been fundamentally racist.