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NATO Polices the World for Imperialism: A Look at its Roots

by John Catalinotto, published on International Action Center, June 5, 2024 According to the self-serving description on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s website, the military alliance “strives to secure a lasting peace in Europe and North America, based on its member countries’ common values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.” Reading that statement provides an[…]

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Government’s “New Math” Rips Off Social Security Beneficiaries $6,200 Annually Since 2,000

By John Pottinger, published on Socialist Action, March 27, 2024 Yes, this article is talking about the so-called “Entitlement” that ordinary working people pay out of their wages week in and week out.  Only the low wage earners pay relative to their full wage while higher wage earners pay against a portion of their wages consistent with the wages of[…]

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Top Ten Reasons to Dismiss the COP28 Conference of Polluters 28

by Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa, published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2023 The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 [Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by United Arab Emirates oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this[…]

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Corporate War Profiteers Finally Put on Trial

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, November 20, 2023 The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal began on November 12, 2023 and has weekly sessions on Zoom and later available on their Rumble channel.  If you are interested in viewing the Tribunal or learning more about it, please visit their website at https://merchantsofdeath.org.   There, you can register for[…]

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The fight for Palestinian Liberation is a Fight for the Whole Working Class

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, October 20, 2023 On Oct. 7, the Palestinian people and their combat organizations launched a powerful attack against Israeli occupation forces and their settlements that they called “Al Aqsa Flood.” Their maneuver peeled away the Zionist state’s false sense of supremacy and demonstrated that even with billions of U.S. dollars and high-tech weaponry,[…]

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Is Intellectual Property Turning into a Knowledge Monopoly?

by Prabir Purkayastha, produced by Globetrotter, September 6, 2023 When the settlers came to the United States, they usurped the common property of the native tribes and parceled it out for money.  The same is being done to our common store of knowledge. When greed drives science, it cannot be science.  [jb] The twentieth century saw the emergence of public[…]

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BRICS Bloc: No Alternative to US Imperialist World Order

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 25, 2023 Meeting amid the gleaming glass towers of Johannesburg’s business district, the mostly billionaire heads of state had no clear agenda other than perhaps a major expansion of BRICS membership aimed at increasing its influence on the world capitalist marketplace.   China’s President Xi Jinping mysteriously skipped the opening session, but[…]

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The Neocons’ Frankenstein Syndrome in Niger

by Julia Wright, published on Workers World, September 14, 2023 Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” published in 1819, was an English abolitionist born to radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and anarchist political philosopher William Godwin. Not only did she advocate the end of slavery, but in her father’s drawing room she overheard discussions about the beginning and the ending of biological[…]

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Musing from the Margins #3; Their Crimes are Coming Home Again

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 113, 2023 Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on September 11, Haiti, white supremacy in Biden’s Ukraine policy, the criminalization of dissent, and other issues. September 11. Less than two years after the infamous “Powell Memo” that called the capitalist rulers to action to protect their system by launching a[…]

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