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Happy July Farce: An American Revolution Would be a Good Idea

5Jul

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Happy July Farce: An American Revolution Would be a Good Idea

BY PAUL STREETl Image by Vlad Tchompalov. “Read a book, you might learn something.” – New Left historian Carl Parrini to a generation of students at Northern Illinois University “Fuck your fireworks, fuck your Court, fuck its decisions, and fuck your Fourth.” – The author, somewhere in downtown Chicago, today Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (DOI) and the American “revolution” it signified should be taken with a ton of salt. The (DOI) articulated the revolutionary notion that “the people” have the right to dissolve a government that no longer serves their interests and the common good. But who were “the people” in the early U.S. republic? White male owners of substantive property holdings. This left out: Blacks, most of whom were branded and r...

The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative with a Private Corporation

5Jul

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The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative with a Private Corporation

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Yangshan Port of Shanghai, China. Photograph Source: Wikipedia – Public Domain At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new G7 project—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)—was intended to counter the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Given Biden’s failure to pass the Build Back Better bill (with its scope being almost halved from $3.5 trillion to $2.2 trillion), it is unlikely that he will get the U.S. Congress to go along with this new endeavor. The PGII is not the first attempt by the U.S. to match the Chinese infrastructure investment globally, which ...

The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine

5Jul

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Syria, Ukraine

The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine

BY PATRICK COCKBURNl Photograph Source: DAVID HOLT from London, England – CC BY 2.0 Kurds are suffering the greatest collateral damage form the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees attract global attention, but the Ukraine war has opened the door wide to the mass expulsion of two million Syrian Kurds, which is likely to take place in the coming months. Turkey is threatening to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from northern Syria which it began five years ago. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have already been forced by Turkish-led forces to flee from their enclaves on the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border. “There is no place for the [Kurdish fighters] in Syria‘s future,” said Erdogan. “We hope that… we will rid the region of separatist terror...

5Jul

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US Marine Press Takes on Hothouse Earth

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Levi Meir Clancy. America loves its military. It should because it’s the most expensive defense force of all time. $778B was allocated for defense spending in 2022. China comes in a distant second at $229B. All of which prompts a provocative question: What if the Marine Corps publishes a landmark study that claims recipients of the US government defense budget are collectively responsible for accelerating the danger of climate change to very dangerous levels, in fact, to unlivable levels? As of June 2022, that’s precisely what’s happened. The world’s militaries, intelligence agencies, foreign affairs strategies, and think tanks are unwittingly advancing the hyperthreat, which is an acceleration of climate and environmental change leading...

5Jul

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Abolish the CIA

BY EVE OTTENBERG Richard Helms in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968. Photo: White House. Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of Iranian president Mohammad Mossadegh, the 1954 regime change of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz for daring to step on United Fruit’s toes, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the many, some of them quite ridiculous, attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem’s demise, a possible right-wing Cuban link to the JFK assassination, the murder of Chilean general Rene Schneider and the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende, the Watergate break-in and much, much more – the CIA’s fingerprints were all over these crime...

In Deep Water: Shipping in the Global Economy

4Jul

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World

In Deep Water: Shipping in the Global Economy

BY JOSEPH GROSSO Ultrabulk cargo ship, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. It is perhaps a wonder that it was not until experiencing the fallout from a global pandemic, that most Americans were forced to read or hear the words ‘supply chain’ or ‘logistics.’ Surprising both because it is on these things that the basic essentials of modern life are dependent and because of the revolutionary changes in these arenas over the past generation. Yet with COVID still haunting the global economy, as of this writing China is only just emerging from the largest COVID lockdown since Wuhan, and with inflation at the highest it’s been in decades, uncertainty about supply chains lingers. Over the past twelve months this uncertainty has assumed many forms. There have been reports of sh...

RIMPAC Naval Exercises, the Philippines and War on China

4Jul

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RIMPAC Naval Exercises, the Philippines and War on China

BY VICTOR GREGOR LIMON – SEIJI YAMADA The United Kingdom’s carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces led by Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise joined with U.S. Navy carrier strike groups led by flagships USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson to conduct multiple carrier strike group operations in the Philippine Sea, Oct. 3, 2021. Photo: US Navy. A strange group of visitors are arriving in Hawaiʻi: 38 battleships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft, nine national land forces, and some 25,000 personnel from more than two dozen countries. These war machines come every other year to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises, the largest naval exercise in the world, hosted by the US Navy since 1971. One continge...

Colombia, Once a Pro-U.S. Conservative Bastion, Turns Left

4Jul

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Colombia, Once a Pro-U.S. Conservative Bastion, Turns Left

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Gustavo Petro on election night in Colombia. Source: Democracy Now! For the first time ever, Colombia has chosen new leadership that is not conservative. Voters in the third-most populous nation in Latin America narrowly elected the former mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, in a runoff election against his conservative opponent Rodolfo Hernández, with 50.47 percent of the votes. Petro, who ran on a platform to tackle inequality, is a former rebel soldier who, at the age of 17 joined a now-defunct guerilla group called M-19 and was briefly imprisoned and tortured. His election is viewed as part of the ongoing “pink tide” in Latin America where a wave of left-leaning, but not-hardcore-communist leaders have succeeded in taking power through ...

Does the Amazon Now Have a Shot at Survival?

4Jul

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Environment

Does the Amazon Now Have a Shot at Survival?

BY SAM PIZZIGATIl Photograph Source: Amazon rainforest – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Amazon rainforest, our scientists tell us, essentially works as our world’s lungs. If those Amazonian lungs ever stop breathing, so will we. This simple relationship just may make Gustavo Petro, the newly elected progressive president of Colombia, one of our planet’s most significant heads of state. If he succeeds over the next four years, the Amazon has a shot at survival — and so do the rest of us. Petro and his environmental activist running mate Francia Marquez have pledged to work with their fellow progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the odds-on favorite to win Brazil’s presidential race this coming October, to save the Amazon rainforest. With leadership from Petro and Marquez, that effo...

OPEC Plus’s Accelerated Oil Production Pales in Comparison to Lost Output from US Sanctions

4Jul

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OPEC Plus’s Accelerated Oil Production Pales in Comparison to Lost Output from US Sanctions

BY KEVIN CASHMAN Photograph Source: Beatrice Murch – CC BY 2.0 The global economy has suffered several shocks since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. These include lingering supply constraints from fallout of the pandemic as well as those from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both of which added pressure to prices around the world. On top of this, speculation in commodity markets has led to significantly higher oil prices, and thus higher prices at the pump and for many goods and services. Higher energy prices are a significant political problem for US president Joe Biden and many other world leaders, who face strikes and protests. One way world leaders might seek to lower prices is work to increase the global supply of oil. Biden especially has a si...