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Haiti

Haitian Commute

BY MICHÈLE D. STERLING Photograph Source: WILLPOWER STUDIOS – CC BY 2.0 I closed my eyes and listened to the quick muffled sounds of nurses’ sensible shoes rushing through empty halls, the hissing and buzzing of harsh neon lights, clanging of metal pans as they’re scurried away on trollies after morning meals. Those banal and reassuring sounds familiar in hospitals everywhere. My heart was still pounding, but the panic had finally subsided. We waited for news of her condition. She’d been shot. One of the bullets that pierced through the car had gone straight through her seat and hit her, where exactly we didn’t know. I closed my eyes and waited. “Was it a decade ago, or was it all just this morning?” My mind was a jumble … racing … blood rushing…. “Earlier? Yeah...

25Sep

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USA

The Latest ‘Math Crisis’

BY BARBARA G. ELLIS Image by Roman Mager. Aside from all the other challenges this country faces, we’re just been told a K-12 “math crisis” has erupted in U.S. public schools after the first two-year onslaught of the COVID pandemic. It’s left “average” students a half a year behind who have yet to catch up, according to a recent study by a coalition of eight major newsrooms (The Education Reporting Collaborative ). Alarmed school officials around the country have already used millions in pandemic funds to put “math coaches” in their middle schools. Parents of the math gifted spent small fortunes either on math tutors or the rise of a significant cottage industry teaching math (“Group of 4-6, $40 per session; Private 1:1, $75” ), revealed on ...

What is 21st Century Fascism? The Dictatorship of Big Money

25Sep

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USA

What is 21st Century Fascism? The Dictatorship of Big Money

BY RICHARD MOSER Photo by Christine Roy Twenty-first-century fascism is the dictatorship of big money. Finance, fossil fuels giants, other large corporations, and the military-industrial complex, have effectively merged with the state, calling the shots in Washington. An immense surveillance and propaganda machine is at their disposal. Narrative and information control is the first line of defense but the militarized police state acts when all else fails. Big money wants total control and tolerates no rivals. The dictatorship of big money is impossible without institutional racism paving the way to a new form of institutional fascism. New Fascism for a New Century Common understandings of fascism rely heavily on 20th-century European history. By thos...

25Sep

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USA

Why Rupert Murdoch Came to New York

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN 1/18/1983 President Reagan during a meeting with Rupert Murdoch with Charles Wick in the Oval Office. Photo: White House. With the announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from the board of FoxNews and Newscorp, I thought was it an apt moment to reprint one of the most detailed portraits ever written of the press mogul: Alexander Cockburn’s 1976 profile and interview with Murdoch published in the Village Voice in 1976, shortly after Murdoch had acquired the New York Post. Alex’s interview with Murdoch was liberally mined by William Shawcross for his otherwise demur biography of the carnivorous tycoon.–JSC Who Is Rupert Murdoch, Anyway? The new game in town is guessing what Rupert Murdoch will do with the New Yor...

25Sep

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Ukraine

War is the Precondition of Peace

BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN – SUE COE Sue Coe, Arms Merchants, 2023. Text by Stephen Eisenman; Art by Sue Coe. Editorial bot The recent New York Times editorial (September 15) opposing negotiations between Ukraine and Russia was so hallucinatory it might have been written by an AI chatbot. “It is in America’s national interest,” the editorial writers state, “to lead its NATO allies in demonstrating that they will not tolerate Mr. Putin’s revanchist ambitions. It is a demonstration of America’s commitment to democracy and leadership that other would-be aggressors are watching.” America’s commitment to democracy has always been tenuous at best. Our wealth was founded upon the enslavement of Africans and the expropriation of Indigenous land and resources. Interna...

25Sep

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Russia, Ukraine

War is the Precondition of Peace

BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN – SUE COE Sue Coe, Arms Merchants, 2023. Text by Stephen Eisenman; Art by Sue Coe. Editorial bot The recent New York Times editorial (September 15) opposing negotiations between Ukraine and Russia was so hallucinatory it might have been written by an AI chatbot. “It is in America’s national interest,” the editorial writers state, “to lead its NATO allies in demonstrating that they will not tolerate Mr. Putin’s revanchist ambitions. It is a demonstration of America’s commitment to democracy and leadership that other would-be aggressors are watching.” America’s commitment to democracy has always been tenuous at best. Our wealth was founded upon the enslavement of Africans and the expropriation of Indigenous land and resources. Interna...

Epidemic or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval

25Sep

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Africa

Epidemic or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval

BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Annie Spratt. What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright revolutionary movements, similar to the anti-colonial movements that liberated most African nations from the yoke of Western colonialism throughout the 20th century? Whether this is the case or not, we are unlikely to find out anytime soon, simply because the voices of these African nations are largely and deliberately muted. In order for us to understand the real motives behind the spate of military takeovers in West and Central Africa – eight since 2020 – we are, sadly, compelled to read about it in Western media. And that is a major part of the problem. Simply put, Western media has failed to convey the deepe...

24Sep

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Environment

Welcome to the New Green Colonialism

BY JOHN FEFFER Photograph Source: Mark Dixon – CC BY 2.0 In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you’ll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month — or so you’ve been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you’ll be invited into the Golden Circle, which offers yet more perks like free concert tickets and trips to Las Vegas. Still, I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that there’s a catch. If you don’t sell a pile of products or sign up a ton of friends to do the same, the odds are that you’ll end up losing money, no matter how hard you work, especially if you take out loans to ...

The Political Rise of a New White Nationalism

24Sep

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USA

The Political Rise of a New White Nationalism

BY CLARENCE LUSANE Photograph Source: kelly bell photography – CC BY 2.0 In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson. Fired Fox News commentator Tucker Carson, for instance, screeches manically that, because of immigration, “eventually there will be no more native-born Americans.” Immediately following that comment comes former Grand Wizard Duke saying, “We’ve got to start protecting our race.” Donald Trump is then shown at a rally (with several Black...

Libya Catastrophe is a Double Whammy; Capitalism is to Blame

24Sep

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Libya

Libya Catastrophe is a Double Whammy; Capitalism is to Blame

BY W. T. WHITNEY Image by Mike Erskine. Prodigious rainfall and the failure of long-deteriorated earthen dams caused a rush of waters through Derna, in Libya, on September 11. Thousands of residents died, infrastructure was destroyed, and buildings ended up in the Mediterranean. Failure to protect residents, maintain the dams, and sustain the lives of all Libyans point to societal collapse. There is also the environmental crisis. Climate change provoked the enormity of storm Daniel that had drenched the eastern Mediterranean area ahead of the disaster. The association of climate change and terrible storms is known and so too is the role of human activities in causing great amounts of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere. The focus here is on the social disru...