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From Affirmative Action to Reparations: Bridging Racial Economic Inequality

22Jul

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USA

From Affirmative Action to Reparations: Bridging Racial Economic Inequality

BY DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Supreme Court’s latest attempt to mandate colorblindness amidst the reality of deep and widespread racial inequality has dealt another strong blow against affirmative action in higher education. Yet at the same time communities across the country are recognizing that racial inequality will only be addressed if policies are specifically designed to repair these divisions. The foundation of racial economic inequality is the racial wealth divide As I often state, the foundation of racial inequality is racial economic inequality and the foundation of racial economic inequality is the racial wealth divide. It is in these areas of economics and wealth that we clearly can see the depth of contemporary racial in...

Pramila Jayapal, ‘Israel’ and the Democratic Party

22Jul

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

Pramila Jayapal, ‘Israel’ and the Democratic Party

Pramila Jayapal, Israel and the Democratic Party BY ROBERT FANTINA Pramila Jayapal speaking in Seattle, 2015. Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, set off a small firestorm when she told the truth this past weekend. Here are her ‘offending’ words: “I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state.” In response, what passes for Democratic leadership in Congress issued this statement: “Israel is not a racist state,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Reps. Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar and Ted Lieu in a joint statement that did not mention Jayapal by name.” We all know, of course, that Amnesty International, Human Right...

Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden

22Jul

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NATO, Russia, Ukraine, USA

Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden

BY RADHIKA DESAI Photograph Source: David Lienemann – Public Domain The proxy war on Russia is the centre piece of Biden’s foreign policy of uniting the world’s ‘democracies’ against ‘autocracies’, particularly China and Russia. He boasts repeatedly of uniting US allies, most in NATO, as never before. Though the real unity is spotty at best, until recently, the rhetoric seemed to work. No longer. At its recent Vilnius Summit, NATO’s disunity bubbled over, though not for the reasons most discussed in the press. The real reasons are rooted in developments that threaten to unravel not only Biden’s strategy, but also NATO. Discordant strains were amply discussed in the run up to the summit. Members could not decide on any successor for Jens Stoltenberg. While the leaders of Austr...

Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle

22Jul

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USA

Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle

BY KARL GROSSMAN Image by Ilja Nedilko. With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, and, so importantly, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the time for putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle has arrived with great timeliness and strength. Can it be done? Can nuclear weapons be abolished? Yes. Consider what the world did in the wake of World War I when the terrible impacts of poison gas had been tragically demonstrated. Mustard gas, chlorine gas, phosphene gas killed thousands on both sides of the conflict. Thereafter, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Chemical Weapons Conv...

The Institutionalization of the New Cold War

22Jul

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NATO, USA

The Institutionalization of the New Cold War

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy and Consulate – CC BY 2.0 The 31 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are taking their victory laps over the latest expansion of the political-military alliance. The boastful communique for last week’s NATO summit in Lithuania had more than 60 references to nuclear weapons, and promised modernization for NATO’s nuclear powers: the United States, Britain, and France. There is increased likelihood for the pre-positioning of advanced military weaponry, particularly artillery and air defense systems. The Baltic Sea will become Lake NATO. When the NATO countries halt their celebration, it will be time to plan for the next Cold War, which will be far worse than the Cold War that dominated...

22Jul

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Environment, USA

Climate Poison Pills in Congress

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Markus Spiske. Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in Congress voted for the nation’s most inclusive climate bill of all time, the Inflation Reduction Act, not one Republican vote. Meanwhile, here we go again, this coming fall, with Congress in another deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. They must pass several spending bills by September 30th when current funding expires or face another ugly quasi-default situation. Leading up to this white-knuckle drop-dead deadline, Republican lawmakers have armed themselves with a plethora of “climate poison pills” inserted into spending proposals. They...

Jenin is Just the Start: Did Palestinians Finally Bury the Ghosts of the Past?

22Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Jenin is Just the Start: Did Palestinians Finally Bury the Ghosts of the Past?

BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Ömer Yıldız. The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of 12 Palestinians, wounding of 120 more and the destruction of nearly 80 percent of the Jenin Refugee Camp’s homes and infrastructure will not make an iota of a difference. Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite his lofty promises of destroying the “safe haven … of the terrorist enclave in Jenin”, must have known that his bloody exercise was ultimately futile. Indeed, as the Israeli military machine was toppling homes, smashing cars and harvesting lives, several Palestinian retaliatory attacks were reported, including in Tel Aviv, on July 4, and in the Kedumim illegal settlement on July ...

What the Wagner Mutiny Says About Attempts to Control Private Military and Security Companies

22Jul

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Russia

What the Wagner Mutiny Says About Attempts to Control Private Military and Security Companies

BY DANIEL WARNER Photograph Source: Fargoh – CC0 The recent mutiny by Wagner has left several unanswered questions. Among them: What about the role of private military groups in general? The Wagner Private Military Company, its formal name, is one of many private military and security companies (PMSCs) operating around the world that are thriving, but most remain outside any formal control. The Russian government uses Wagner in its war against Ukraine, and multinationals hire PMSCs to protect their oil and gas facilities. According to a report from Aerospace&Defence News, “the global private military and security industry will be worth over $457 billion in 2030, up from $224 billion in 2020.” The company G4S Global, for example, had roughly 530,000 employees in ...

On the Red (Brown) and the Blue: Against “Left” Secessionism

22Jul

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USA

On the Red (Brown) and the Blue: Against “Left” Secessionism

BY PAUL STREET Image by Patrick Perkins. What the Hell is going on with Red State versus Blue State America – and how should we think about and what we should do about that division? I hear a fair bit these days from left-identified people and progressives to the effect that they’d be happy with the country “breaking up” in two with the terrible right wing red states becoming their own country and the better blue states left to become, I don’t know, some kind of quasi-Northern European social democracy or something along those lines, I love to mess with progressives when they start up with this narrative. I ask them “so who gets the military and the nuclear weapons? How do you propose to manage this great divorce within the world’s leading imperial aggressor state?” “...

21Jul

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Ukraine, USA

U.S. Soldiers Don’t Belong in Ukraine

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Spc. Jensen Guillory – Public Domain So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but the question keeps coming to mind. It popped up again June 27, when Russia bombed what the Ukraine press called simply a restaurant in Kramatorsk. However, this supposedly innocuous restaurant was part of a hotel complex that apparently attracted lots of western men of fighting age, specifically American soldiers and others from NATO countries. We know this because eyewitnesses heard them speaking American English and saw their U.S. military tattoos (3rd Ranger Battalion) and the American flags on their helmets. Also, American mercenaries were reported dead in twitter a...