Category: Thinking Politically
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Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain targets of the western capitalist mining firms and their state sponsors. Since the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, during 2023, the governments of France and the United States along with their surrogates have sought to undermine the political and economic objectives…
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Israel: Beginning of the End
Like every guerrilla war from Algeria to Vietnam, the Palestinians will win the political struggle for liberation as Israel implodes from within, writes Stefan Moore. Contrary to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bellicose July 24 speech before a joint session of the United States Congress pledging to achieve “total victory” over Hamas, Israel is being decisively defeated –…
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Biden Leaves Office But Risks War with Russia
Democrats are in a collective state of panic because Donald Trump is returning to the presidency. But Joe Biden is escalating conflict in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia and endangering the whole world in the process. If Trump is a fascist, then surely Biden is as well. While every Donald Trump utterance is given…
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Unprincipled, Unstrategic, And Unsustainable: E(U)Logy For The US Climate “Movement”
The ineffectiveness of the climate movement during the 2024 election signals its inevitable collapse. But from the rubble, a new movement dedicated to the working class can be built. The 2024 election cycle may have well served the lethal blow to a U.S. climate “movement” that’s been spinning to its nadir in a death knell…
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Niger to Host Conference in Solidarity with the Sahel Amid its Anti-Imperialist Upsurge
Activists from across Africa and the world will gather in Niger from November 19 to 21 for the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel. The three-day event is dedicated to addressing the urgent struggles and aspirations of the Sahelian people. For those attending the conference, the Sahel’s struggle symbolizes a broader, universal…
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Samir Amin on the Theory of Multipolarity
It is almost universally recognized today that we are living in a multipolar world, symbolized by the continuing decline of U.S. hegemony; the economic stagnation of the imperial triad of the United States, Europe, and Japan; and the rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). But the historical and theoretical significance…
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It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic
Some 80 years after Collier and Tolkien laid out their visions, the question of how best to respond to the devastation of the known and semi-known world has become the topic of our time. Within this discussion, hope is in high rotation and might even be seen as the main rhetorical mode of the crisis-response…
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US Government Paid PR Firm to Track and Vilify Critics of GMOs and Pesticides
Now it has emerged that the White House Writers Group also worked with v-Fluence and the US government to turn Brexit into “a major opportunity for US agriculture and the nation as a whole” by lowering the UK’s environmental standards from EU levels, facilitating the entry of American GMOs and pesticide-contaminatedproducts.
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It’s Time to Organize or Die
Article argues that we on the left must organize with our friends and neighbors to begin the process of building forces for social change. Discusses strengths and weaknesses of PARC, a community cultural center in Michigan City, Indiana, to see what can usefully be shared from their experiences in that city.
