GST Original Articles
By Don Fitz / 12 September 2022
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Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years). As I document in Cuban Health Care, the island quickly caught up to the US and, from 1970 through 2016, the two countries were nip and tuck, with some years Cuba and other years the US, having a longer LE. But... Read more
By Stan Cox / 12 September 2022
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Recent polls suggest that the bonkers, even barbaric, rhetoric coming from far-right MAGA candidates could be undermining Republicans’ chances of capturing both chambers of Congress in November. Now, the greater danger may lie down-ballot. If extremists win key offices in swing-state governments in 2022, they might manage to award their states’ Electoral College votes to the MAGA presidential candidate, against the will of the voters, in... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 18 August 2022
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Carbon emissions have turned the planet into a heat machine.
According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, severe drought is now found throughout the planet.
A recent Cambridge University study claims that since 2015 European drought has accelerated and intensified. In fact, the continent is experiencing the most intense drought in 250 years.
By Robert Hunziker / 13 August 2022
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As the UK suffered its hottest-ever temperatures only recently, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, interviewed Britain’s erudite environmental journalist George Monbiot July 21, 2022 about his most recent article in The Guardian: This Heatwave Has Eviscerated The Idea That Small Changes Can Tackle Extreme Weather, July 18, 2022.
According to Monbiot: “Paper straws are not enough. Only System Change can halt the climate crisis.” Of course... Read more
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By Chris Hedges / 11 December 2022
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The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against the killing of the Palestinians.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will exacerbate Israel’s pariah status,... Read more
By Rob Urie / 09 December 2022
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By Manolo De Los Santos / 09 December 2022
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June 6, 2021, was a day which shocked many in Peru’s oligarchy. Pedro Castillo Terrones, a rural schoolteacher who had never before been elected to office, won the second round of the presidential election with just over 50.13% of the vote. From that day on, still in disbelief, the Peruvian oligarchy declared war on Castillo. However, in... Read more
By Ndongo Samba Sylla, Jomo Kwame Sundaram / 07 December 2022
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By Helen Benedict / 05 December 2022
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Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims. The widespread eagerness to welcome fleeing Ukrainians after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded their country last February is a heartening example of such aid. But behind that altruism lies an ugly truth: most of the countries... Read more
By Jacqueline Luqman / 04 December 2022
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When the African people were fighting for their independence for their liberation, those who are condemning Russia today, we are not with them [then]. But they never took our side. They took the side of the colonialists. They took the side of the side of apartheid, they took their side of racist superiority against the forces of liberation,... Read more
By Kim Scipes / 02 December 2022
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Discusses the need for labor activists to go beyond "lowest common denominator" union organizing.