Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping the Public Away from Power
In the absence of adequate public knowledge, and thus the reduced ‘threat’ of an informed populace participating in a real democracy, power is more or less free to do as it pleases.
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Capitalism | Climate Change | Online Blog | Science | USA | World Economy | World Politics
The Planetary Rift
The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.
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Food Sovereignty from the Perspective of the Urban Poor
On the occasion of World Food Day and the 25-year anniversary of the struggle for food sovereignty: Speech by the president of South Africa’s shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, S’bu Zikode to UN Food Systems Summit, September 16, 2021.
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COVID19 | Imperialism | People's movements | Print Edition | Socialism | World Economy | World Politics
Cuba’s Scientists, Medical Workers Advance Fight Against COVID
By Nov. 15, Cuba will have fully vaccinated an astounding 92% of its population, thanks to Cuba’s development and production of its own vaccines. Cuba’s vaccination rate is the fastest in the world, and the only country whose children as young as two years are being covered.
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How to Save the World (from a Climate Armageddon)
Leaders from around the world will soon gather in Glasgow, Scotland, for a U.N. Climate Summit. You can count on one thing, though: all their plans will fall far short of what’s needed unless backed by the only strategy that can save the planet: a U.S.-China Climate Survival Alliance.
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Taliban Is the Winner at Moscow Conference
The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on Wednesday has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. It is also clear – the Biden administration has lost the plot.
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Why do Bosses Keep Trying to Kill Us?
Bosses are constantly trying to find new ways—and holding on tight to old ways—to kill us. The struggle between life and health, on the one hand, and profit, on the other, is one of the defining features of work and life under capitalism.
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The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We Upend the Art World’s Notion of What’s Good and What’s Right’
The art world rebels have spent 35 years fighting against sexism and inequality in the art world, and they have only just begun.
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The Killing of Gaddafi 10 Years Ago Has Resulted in the Death of the Nation of Libya and the Destruction of its People
There is nothing the West hates more than an Arab leader who opposes imperialism, Zionism and wants his country, and other Arab and African countries, to be self-sufficient. That is why NATO murdered Gaddafi.
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An Unrealized Political Possibility: Remembering the Grenada Revolution
The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world that a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible.
