Amazonia and the World
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Sunday, May 28th, 2023
The rubber era was so violent that it lives on in the myths of Amazonian oral traditions. Daughters and granddaughters of women who were raped by rubber overseers are sometimes also raped when they work as maids for today’s rich descendants of rubber barons. Modern spinoffs include human trafficking, child sex tourism, oil spills, and habitat destruction. Another aspect is that the border zone between Peru and Brazil has the largest concentration of isolated Indigenous peoples. This is no accident. Many are descendants of people who fled into the deep forest to escape the violence.
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Inverted Corporate Capitalism – Blocking Their Owner-Shareholders
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Sunday, May 28th, 2023
It is the season of annual shareholder meetings for giant corporations when CEOs go through the motions of elections for their Board of Directors and approval of other resolutions. People who own stock in General Motors (GM) receive the “GM Meeting Information” in an envelope emblazoned with this disingenuous message: “Your Voice/Your Vote/Be Heard. Every More
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Killing Herrhausen
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Sunday, May 28th, 2023
Even back in 1989, it was not every day you came across a banking chief who wanted to be a philosophy professor. It was certainly not every day you came across one who was assassinated when you were supposed to be with him. I was thinking about all this with a heavy heart recently after […]
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Military intervention in Taiwan and conflict with US among top worries for Chinese surveyed in security poll
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Hayley Wong
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
Some 2,661 mainland citizens polled by the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University on the outlook for international security.
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Tenants disrupt board as it voted to raise rent across New York City
Source: Liberation News
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
On May 2, tenants and housing organizers stormed the stage in the middle of a vote by the New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board proposing to raise rent on the City’s rent-stabilized apartments by as much as 15%. Once on stage, activists read the testimonies of rent-burdened tenants whose lives would be devastated by any increas
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Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
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Pro-DeSantis Super PAC to Inherit Millions, Circumventing Campaign Finance Laws
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
Over $80 million may be transferred from DeSantis' old state-level PAC to a new PAC set to back his presidential bid.
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PayPal Upholds Its Discriminatory Ban on Palestinians Amid Pressure Campaign
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
Israeli settlers in the West Bank have access to PayPal, but their Palestinian neighbors are barred from the service.
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Congressman Pushes Bill to Block States’ Discriminatory Property Ownership Bans
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
A new Florida property law targeting citizens of China, Syria, Venezuela and other nations is part of nationwide wave.
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10 Years After Corey Stingley’s Death, His Family Is Still Fighting for Justice
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
A decade after the 16-year-old's death, allegedly due to being placed in a choke hold, his father pushes for justice.
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British Post Office used racist slur to describe black, Asian suspects in Horizon IT scandal
Source: News - South China Morning Post
dpa
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted based on information from a faulty accounting system.
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: parents warned about rise of other respiratory illnesses despite peaked Covid wave
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Jess Ma
Publish date: Saturday, May 27th, 2023
HKU experts sound alert on flu, RSV and pneumococcal infections, with children and elderly most at risk.
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Why India will continue to lag behind China as a global economic power
Source: News - South China Morning Post
David Dodwell
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
India never had a revolution, so its old power structures continue to shackle economic change. This, coupled with a lack of investment in education, health and social welfare, means India will continue to lag behind China
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‘Charging Domestic Terrorism Is Intended to Make the Cost of Protesting Too High’ - CounterSpin interview with Cody Bloomfield on anti-activist terrorist charges
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
"Whenever there’s...national solidarity, we always see this narrative of 'outside agitators' being used to discredit the entire movement."
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Underexposure Exposed
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
If you want people to think a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
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Ukraine war: Brazil’s Lula turns down Vladimir Putin’s invitation to visit Russia
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Agence France-Presse
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The refusal comes soon after a row between Lula and Ukraine’s Zelensky at the G7 summit in Japan, where a planned meeting between the pair fell through.
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Media Covered Up 1937 Memorial Day Massacre When Cops Killed 10 During Strike
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company.
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Experts Warn of Toxic Chemical Harm in Lead-Up to Plastic Treaty Negotiations
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Plastics are increasingly being recognized as a blend of hazardous chemicals that need to be controlled and phased out.
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Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Elon Musk’s SpaceX From Lawsuits
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded last month, resulting in catastrophic environmental damage.
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Federally Funded Clinics Face Conflicting Rules in Abortion-Restricted States
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
They are caught between state abortion bans and a federal requirement to refer patients for abortion care on request.
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Amid Trump’s Legal Woes, Why Are His Business Ties to Saudi Arabia Overlooked?
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
He's openly helping the Saudi regime "sportswash" its human rights record while taking unknown millions from it.
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Report: Trump Carried Out “Dress Rehearsal” to Move Documents Around Mar-a-Lago
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
"Trump's already perilous situation just got a lot worse," one observer said in reaction to new reporting on the case.
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This Fight Is Global: Abolitionists From the US and France Join in Conversation
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Prison abolitionists are talking across national lines about the connections and differences between their struggles.
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Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.
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White House and GOP Reportedly Nearing Agreement to Raise Debt Ceiling
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Key disputes remain as Sanders warns that allowing the GOP to hold the economy hostage would set a dangerous precedent.
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Manchin Is Using Democrats’ Fears of Third-Party Run to His Political Advantage
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Joe Manchin is encouraging rumors of a possible presidential run to keep Democrats twisted around his little finger.
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China-South Korea ties are low and could go lower, Chinese envoy says
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Zhuang Pinghui
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The two countries have been tussling for weeks over Taiwan, with South Korea falling more in line with the US.
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China, Russia hold security talks in Moscow amid tensions with the West
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Kawala Xie
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Top Chinese official meets Russian spy chief and Security Council secretary on sidelines of multilateral summit.
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Hong Kong civil service union asks for 5.1 per cent pay increase across the board, higher than the maximum 4.65 per cent suggested by pay survey
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Emily Hung
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants’ Association says 5.1 per cent pay rise needed to ‘boost morale’ in public sector.
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What’s the Use of William Blake?
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism? Rather than study and enjoy works by long dead poets or painters, shouldn’t we focus on the emergency? If the museum is on fire, do we stroll the galleries, admiring the masterpieces or rush in and douse the flames? More
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“White Protectionism” is White Supremacy: A Bait and Switch as Old as History
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
In recognition of the institutional political biases operating against people of color, the NAACP has issued a travel advisory against Florida, lamenting Governor Ron DeSantis’s “aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.” The organization bluntly declares that “Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans…before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.” More
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The Death Penalty for Homelessness
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Over 815 homeless people have died in public places in New York since 2022, most recently and notably Jordan Neely, whose obstreperous destitution offended a fellow subway rider, Daniel Penny, who strangled Neely to death. Penny is white, Neely was Black, though ex-marine Penny claimed May 20 that he is not a white supremacist. The media and mayor Adams downplayed the viciousness of this crime, because, according to Adams, “there were serious mental health issues in play here.” What else would you expect from a former cop? When called to assist people cracking up, police routinely shoot and kill them. Adams unwittingly implies that the Nazi response to schizophrenics is acceptable: murder them. More
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The Clintons and the Rich Women
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Hillary Clinton has never addressed her role in the midnight pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. In fact, she’s rarely been asked her opinion on the free pass given to one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, a man who violated embargoes against Iran and South Africa and fled the country rather than face trial More
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Accountability Needed at the Country’s Most Toxic Site
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
On the edge of Washington state, just a few miles from the great Columbia River, boiling radioactive sludge is seeping out of a huge underground tank known as B-109. Another tank, B-111, was found to be leaking a similarly noxious soup back in 2011 and has been polluting the soil and groundwater ever since. The More
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Not On Our Dime!’: Why US Democrats Are Growingly Challenging Israel
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed ‘unbreakable bond’ with Tel Aviv is faltering, though more in language than in deeds. Following the provocative ‘Flag March’ on May 18, which is carried out annually by Israeli Jewish extremists in the Occupied Palestinian city of East More
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Nuclear Turns Fashionable
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse gases, advertised as a green deal for clean energy that skirts the heavy costs of paying the Middle East billions upon billions. However, the devil More
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The Russiagate Fraud Revisited
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
According to the recently published Harvard / Harris poll of the political views of Americans, 70% believe that the US intelligence agencies are 1) rigging American elections and 2) should be prevented from doing so in the future. This view finds support in the recently released report from Special Counsel John Durham that concluded that More
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Against Involuntary Death
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David or his scribe so neatly put it. Friends of mine are falling ill and dying at a rate rapid enough to justify Philip Roth’s grim reference to “the holocaust of my generation.” More
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Kinsey Defunded, Perma Wars Mega-Funded, Humanities Up in Smoke
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
America’s premiere sexuality research center, the Kinsey Institute, has been defunded, even as American Perma Wars—at home and abroad—are super-funded. Bi-partisan billions keep rolling in for the War Machines—thanks to the Military Industrial-Congressional Complex, the Cops and the Gun Industry—that destroy lives at home and abroad, yet there’s nothing but slander and censorship, fire and More
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AI and Human Autonomy
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Among the 2,500 years’ old moral philosophies, the morality of artificial intelligence (AI) broadly falls into the area of machine morality. Within this, there is even a website called Morals & Machines. Its next conference is scheduled for 25th of May in the German city of Munich. The more astute reader of moral philosophy tends More
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FISA is the “Trust Me, Chumps!” Surveillance Act
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion released last week revealed that the FBI violated the constitutional rights of 278,000 Americans in 2020 and 2021 with warrantless searches of their email and other electronic data. For each American that the FISA court permitted the FBI to target, the FBI illicitly surveiled almost a thousand additional Americans. More
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Belafonte in the Sun
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Belafonte in the Sun Harry Belafonte and Joan Fontaine in the final scene of Island in the Sun (1957) After the first installment of my planned two-part tribute to Harry Belafonte, who died a month ago at the age of, two weeks of nonsense intervened. First came the coronation of Charles III—the pomp and circumstance More
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Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Realities: Vijay Prashad in Conversation
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
In this insightful discussion, Vijay Prashad, a prominent Indian historian and commentator, shared his valuable insights on various subjects, including the role of the Indian diaspora in shaping global perspectives on Indian politics and culture, his motivation to study the intersections of imperialism, capitalism, and globalization, and the enduring effects of colonialism on India and More
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The Deplorable Work Conditions Behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling Tea
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world’s largest department store, Harrods in London, you could head on over to the world-famous food halls where you could buy, among other high-priced indulgences, a type of tea branded “Ambootia Snow Mist.” At $7,864 per kilogram—enough to make about 300 cups—Snow Mist regularly made appearances More
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Kashmir in the Shadows
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
While few of the world’s governments seem to care about Palestine, at least their officials will occasionally pay lip service to the extreme violations of human rights and international law that the apartheid regime of Israel commits against the people of Palestine on a daily basis. Sometimes, following a particularly egregious crime, there will even More
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The SNAP Expansion Helped Me Lead a Dignified Life on Disability…Now It’s Gone
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
One thing I was grateful for during the pandemic was masks — and not just for safety reasons. I’m on Medicare for disability, which unfortunately doesn’t cover dental care. At 60 years old, I’ve lost many of my teeth. It was nice hiding behind a mask for a while. But I was grateful for another More
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There’s No Debate About the Debt, Only Political Priorities
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The news sure makes it sound like President Biden and Republicans have been haggling over the national debt. But that’s not what’s really happening — not at all. President Biden wants to spend more money and run up the deficit, the story goes. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to rein the Democrats’ “addiction to More
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Germany’s Non-Nuclear Path to a Carbon Neutral Future
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Germany is a country of sensible shoes. And, I might add, supremely comfortable ones. Germans do buttery leather as well as they do beer. Germany’s energy policy is similarly sensible. Germans see no reason to choose the slowest, most expensive, most dangerous and decidedly non-renewable energy source with which to address the climate crisis. Consequently, More
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America’s Continuing Quest to Hide Torture
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
In the Blindman’s Buff variation of tag, a child designated as “It” is tasked with tapping another child while wearing a blindfold. The sightless child knows the other children, all able to see, are there but is left to stumble around, using sounds and knowledge of the space they’re in as guides. Finally, that child does succeed, either More
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Killing Gandhi: The Legacy of an Assassination
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is an ultra-right (I would say fascist) organization founded in India in 1925. Its primary goal is to establish a Brahmin Hindu nation in India. Although it was marginally involved in the struggle against British colonialism before India’s 1947 independence and partition, its emphasis on Hindu supremacy meant it had More
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Why No West Point of Peace?
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
“Why Kiev needs those F-16 fighters” and “Bloody days of clawing back ground at Bakhmut” are recent front page New York Times headlines with details of the weapon’s possibilities and the battles “grinding combat” in the following articles. Also included are quotations from those involved in the fighting and Ukrainian government officials overseeing the war. Where More
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Letters From Saudi Arabia: Jeddah to Lawrence’s Yanbu
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
This is the fifth part in a series about travels in Saudi Arabia, along the line of the Hejaz railway. Uber took me to my Jeddah hotel, which I had booked for its proximity to the Corniche, a residential suburb with a promenade along the Red Sea. I thought I might be able to walk More
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Worker Empowerment Stalls in Venezuela as Left Unity Fractures
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president from 1999 until 2013, inspired and led a “Bolivarian Revolution” that sought independence from U.S. domination, regional integration and so-called socialism of the 21st century. Obstacles are many: capitalism in control of the national economy, unrelenting rightwing political opposition, U.S. intervention – and longstanding political divisions among left forces. Worker empowerment More
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Allen Ginsberg: Unsafe at any Speed
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Medical doctors and therapists surrounded Beat luminary Allen Ginsberg. But not until now has a single MD turned to the written word to describe a singular literary genius who shifted the course of American poetry. Dr. Stevan M. Weine does that in Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness, a new book More
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Kissinger at 100 (A Prose Poem)
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Dr K will be celebrated today for his heroism and wonderful taste in women that made Mao laugh for hours and share jokes about dumplings dipped in yo soy sauce. There’ll be no talk at the celebration table of Cambodia or the darkside of the Peace Accords, or the Nobel Prize for that matter. [Place More
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We Can Do Better With a Thousand Years: On Power and Progress
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
When I saw that two of the country’s most prominent economists (Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson) wrote a book (Power and Progress) on “our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity,” I expected a lot. I was disappointed. To be clear, there is much here to like and I’m sure that most readers will get much from it, More
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Weaponizing Modern Art
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Christopher Knight, an art critic for the Los Angeles Times, took a recent walk through LACMA and found it unpleasant. LACMA is the Loss Angeles County Museum of Art. He said LACMA used to be one of the country’s most interesting museum of historical art, exhibiting a tremendous More
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A Reality Check on Our Polarized Lives (From My Radiology Exam)
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Arriving for my bone density test at a downstate New York hospital, I’m delighted to again find Belinda in Radiology. When she does my annual mammogram, I learn more than about cancer. Although she readily shares her own breast cancer experience as she prepares her half-million-dollar machine. How she delights in describing its new features. More
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The Violent Urge for Supremacy in the World’s Two Largest Democracies
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you’ve got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we’re worried, too — worried enough, in fact, to feel that it’s time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has More
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Queering Mental Illness into a New Revolutionary Consciousness
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Friday, May 26th, 2023
Jordan Neely was kind of a weird kid. If you ever saw him, you would know what I mean. There was just something profoundly ‘other’ about his spirit and through the right set of eyes, it was something beautiful to behold. He looked just like Michael Jackson back when Michael Jackson still looked like Michael More
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US says North Korea to send more programmers abroad to fund nuclear arms
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Bloomberg
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
US and South Korean officials said Pyongyang is boosting efforts to send thousands of tech workers to countries, including China and Russia, to generate revenue.
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Tech war: China’s top server makers stop orders of memory modules containing Micron chips, sources say
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Che Pan
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Inspur, which is under US trade sanctions, and Lenovo are among the biggest buyers of Micron products, which are under a partial ban in China.
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Socialist Lalo Vargas announces campaign for CD14 in Los Angeles
Source: Liberation News
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
On May 20, in Lincoln Heights, Lalo Vargas, the first openly socialist candidate launched their campaign for Los Angeles City Council District 14 – contesting the seat of disgraced Councilmember Kevin de Leon.
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Montana TikTok Ban a Sign of Intensified Cold War With China
Source: FAIR: FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Corporate anti-competitive power and Cold War fears lead the government to contemplate censoring media now available to 80 million Americans.
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Supreme Court Ruling Opens Millions of Acres of Wetlands to Pollution
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Environmental advocates said the decision poses an “existential threat” to tens of millions of acres of wetlands.
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Most Americans Want Gun Reform — But State Laws Have Loosened Since Uvalde
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Lawmakers have largely failed to respond to the hundreds of mass shootings since the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Glitches on Twitter Interrupt Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Presidential Campaign Launch
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Employees of the social media site said there wasn't enough preparation for the Twitter Spaces event.
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Ukrainians Are Demanding a Just Postwar Reconstruction
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Ukrainian and Western ruling classes are using the war to further an offensive on the public sector, says Denis Pilash.
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PSL Editorial — DeSantis 2024: Bigotry in service of the ultra-rich
Source: Liberation News
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
When right wing, ruling class politicians like DeSantis emphasize these types of “culture war” issues, it is a tactic to divide and rule.
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Ukraine war: Russia moves ahead with deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Reuters
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
The warheads are already on the move after Putin signed an order, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says.
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Sanders Leads Senate Call to Investigate Price-Gouging Military Contractors
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Even as it claims to oppose wasteful spending, the GOP pushes for more military funding in debt ceiling talks.
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The US Continues to Try to Suppress Details About Its Torture Programs
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
It’s time to end the ongoing “war on terror,” expose it for what it is, and make sure it never happens again.
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A Single Parent’s Complaint Leads School District to Ban Amanda Gorman Poem
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Book bans like the one against her poem "[rob] children of the chance to find their voices in literature," Gorman said.
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US Spent $1.1 Trillion of Federal Discretionary Money on Militarism in Past Year
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
This left less than two-fifths of the discretionary budget for public health, education, the environment, and more.
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The Fight Against Book Bans Is Mobilizing a New Generation of Student Activists
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
As the right bans books on LGBTQ issues and racial justice, youth are getting a crash course in collective organizing.
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Biden Administration Pauses Copper Mining Project on Sacred Apache Site
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
For years, tribal leaders in Arizona have fought to keep Oak Flat free from mining projects and other disturbances.
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Expanding Use of Primates in Drug Testing Is a Threat to Public Health
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Proposals to expand domestic breeding of primates for research overlook several ethical, scientific and safety woes.
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2 Democrats Join House GOP in Voting to Repeal Student Debt Relief
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Critics say repealing the program would hit borrowers with surprise bills and nullify the student loan payment pause.
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Stabbings Near UC Davis Were Terrifying, But More Policing Won’t Make Us Safer
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Student-led care and support work rather than criminalization and prosecution should be our model for safety.
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China’s Apple loss is India’s gain, as 2022 supplier list shows shift in supply chain preferences
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Ben Jiang
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Apple added five new suppliers in mainland China last year but cut eight, while production bases in India rose to 14 from 11.
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Police will target people spreading fake information over organ donor register, Hong Kong health chief warns
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Elizabeth Cheung
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau says ‘ill-intentioned people spreading fake information must be condemned by the whole city’.
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Hong Kong Palace Museum to suspend free entry every Wednesday to 7 exhibitions amid low turnout
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Cannix Yau
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Decision was made because only one third of those who registered had shown up over past six months, museum says.
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Asia gets most of Russian dark fuels after EU embargo – China, India biggest importers
Source: News - South China Morning Post
Reuters
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
China and India accounted for 2.6 million tonnes and 2.1 million tonnes, respectively, of exports of dirty oil products from Russian since the start of the year, while Singapore and Malaysia had almost 3.5 million tonnes in total.
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How the U.S. War on Taiwanese Semiconductors Might Benefit Japan
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
U.S. Ambassador Robert O’Brien, the former National Security Advisor of Donald Trump, told Steve Clemons, an editor at Semafor, at the Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar, on March 13, 2023, “The United States and its allies are never going to let those [semiconductor] factories fall into Chinese hands.” China, O’Brien said, could build “the new OPEC of silicon chips” and thereby, “control the world economy.” The United States will prevent this possibility, he said, even if it means a military strike. More
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The Great Panic: Trans-Sexuality and the Erosion of Patriarchy
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
The Trans Legislation Tracker reports that as of May 2023, 543 anti-trans bills have been proposed in 49 state and 71 have passed; of these, 59 have been signed into law while 12 others have passed but haven’t been enacted. Last year, 26 bill were passed out of 174 proposed bills. Oklahoma’s OK SB129 is More
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Becoming Our Own Volcano: the Fires of Nature and Humanity
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
In the release of nuclear energy, humanity has finally achieved a power on the order of volcanoes. Nothing is so much like a volcanic eruption as a nuclear explosion. In fact, the mushroom cloud that formed on the horizon when Tahonelatclah (Mt. St. Helens) erupted with an estimated 20 megatons of force caused many to believe war had broken out. With a nuclear war, humanity could even mimic the effects of a supervolcano, soot from the fires reducing sunlight enough to cause years of winter-like conditions and global famine killing more people than the nuclear exchange. In the face of the volcano, we can see our own. We are the new volcano. Our powers might well consume us. More
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Amid Debt Ceiling Debate: VA Cuts Passed by House Give Corporate Dems Political Cover
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
When the new House majority passed its grab bag of government spending cuts last month, setting up an on-going game of chicken with the White House over any federal debt limit increase, they also directed their fire at essential services for military veterans, a constituency long courted by their own party. Included in the “Limit, More
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Like the Handwriting on the Wall
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
The US is a violent society. The violence is not solely a domestic issue, but extends outward over the world, which is like a US plaything of empire. Clichés like the US has noble intentions is pablum for consumption here, with over 800 military bases and rumors of war and war, in which the US More
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GDP and the Idolatry of Growth
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
In the middle of the eighteenth century, the physician-turned-economist François Quesnay devised a quantitative model of the economy, among the first of its kind and a precursor to present-day GDP. Quesnay is famous today as among the leading lights of an economic theory known as Physiocracy. Like other Physiocrats, Quesnay placed land and agricultural output More
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Should Jamie Dimon Get a Government Salary?
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
I’m sure most of my readers are familiar with Jamie Dimon, the longtime CEO of JP Morgan. He pocketed $34.5 million last year. If he sticks around for another three years as CEO, he stands to earn another $50 million, in addition to his normal compensation. That’s pretty good pay by almost any standard, so More
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Rogue Consultants: PwC, Tax Evasion and Getting Clients
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Things are not looking up at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a global professional services firm piratically free in sharing confidential tax information gathered from government clients. Then again, the firm’s expertise is not so much to look up to a principled heaven as down to a tax-proof Hades, buried in the scrambling minutiae of accounting and deception. More
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A Walmart Worker’s View on the Retirement Divide
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
I’ll be turning 67 at the end of this month. I’d love to be able to retire on my birthday. I’d celebrate by spending the afternoon at the mall with my daughter and then start planning little trips to visit relatives. But even after working for our nation’s largest employer — Walmart — for 22 More
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Sorry, I Just Can’t Go For That
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
The Durham report has been released but nobody really cares, nobody on the left anyway it seems. This report is damning, very damning and viewed from an unbiased, discerning position the reader, in anything like “normal circumstances”, would be quite alarmed with the corrupting influence and out and out extreme interference in the electoral process. More
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Runaway Inequality About to Get Worse
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
The United States’ astronomical levels of economic inequality are poised to become further entrenched in the coming years as what The New York Times described Sunday as “the greatest wealth transfer in history” gets underway, with the richest members of the Baby Boomer generation set to pass trillions of dollars in assets on to their descendants—often paying More
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Court Overturns Federal Authorization to Kill 72 Grizzlies Near Yellowstone
Source: Counterpunch
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
PINEDALE, Wyo.— The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service’s authorization of the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears on public land just outside of Yellowstone National Park violated federal law. Meant to accommodate private grazing operations in grizzly habitat, the 2019 grazing authorization would have allowed More
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AOC Slams GOP After Gaetz Admits Debt Limit Negotiation Is “Hostage” Situation
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
“For all of this talk about negotiations, Republicans are not negotiating at all,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
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Abortion Clinic Defense Needs to Be Seen as a Key Part of Anti-Fascism
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
We can build broad anti-fascist coalitions while blocking far right demonstrators to make clinics safe for patients.
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Minnesota Workers Win Labor Reforms, Ban on Captive Audience Meetings
Source: Liberation News
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Workers in Minnesota are about to see the fruits of years of work organizing and building power across the state. A sweeping package of labor reforms has passed both the Minnesota House and Senate and was signed by Governor Tim Walz on May 24.
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Far Right Violence Surges in US and India
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
In India, Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means.
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Kissinger Responsible for More Civilian Deaths in Cambodia Than Previously Known
Source: TruthOut
Publish date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Henry Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday as survivors and family members of deadly campaigns continue to grieve.
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