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25Nov

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Literature, Politics, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

Anti-Zionism is not racism!

Anti-Zionism is not racism! Join our protest today! Communists arrested for telling the truth about Zionism and imperialism. Free speech is dying in Britain today. https://youtu.be/u0kdUHI1uAQ Party statement Sunday 26 November 2023 Four members of the CPGB-ML were arrested in London yesterday (see video above). They were manning a party stall at a demonstration in support of Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza. They have been held in a south London police station since their arrest. While we are still not sure of the exact charge, video footage of their arrest makes it clear that the excuse used was ‘incitement to racial hatred’, based on the cover design of our party’s pamphlet on Zionism. The police have long been aware o...

When the Torturer is the ‘Savior’: Can BRICS, Global South Help Us Escape the West’s Hegemony, Contradictions

24Nov

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China, Politics, Russia, USA

When the Torturer is the ‘Savior’: Can BRICS, Global South Help Us Escape the West’s Hegemony, Contradictions

The BRICS Meeting in South Africa in August 2023. (Photo: via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo Without downplaying the internal contradictions among the main countries that established the BRICS group or the newcomers, one cannot help but ponder a world without US-Western domination. At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared to be the most essential tools for the Egyptian Revolution. Though some observers later contested the use of the terms ‘Twitter Revolution’ or ‘Social Media Revolution’, one cannot deny the centrality of these platforms in the discussion around the events which attempted to redefine the power structures of Egy...

11Nov

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Politics

Is There Such a Thing as a “Just War”?

BY ALFRED DE ZAYAS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair War is a man-made catastrophe that is almost always preventable, but prevention fails because of poor diplomacy, bad faith, intransigence, or an animus dominandi bent on aggression. Once unleashed war becomes unpredictable and often yields other results than those intended. Confidence building among nations is the best prevention against war, the availability of forums to facilitate dialogue and compromise. Retrospectively, it is easy to see where mistakes were made and how the outbreak of war could have been avoided. But very few politicians have ever learned from the mistakes of prior wars, few have learned anything at all from history. They live in their own worlds and believe their own propag...

The Interrogation Psychologists Come Home to Roost

4Oct

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Politics, USA

The Interrogation Psychologists Come Home to Roost

BY IAN HANSEN The Freudian Interrogators. Image: JSC and AI Art Generator. Roy Eidelson’s Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror is essential reading for understanding the cultural and political world we now inhabit. Eidelson writes from the perspective of an outraged psychologist, who expected much better from his profession than support for a detention and interrogation program that had torture at its core. He provides detailed documentation of the efforts of his fellow psychologist “dissidents” to bring accountability to the American Psychological Association (APA). Full disclosure: As a former president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, I am one of these dissidents. The APA cultivates...

The Trial of Subhas Nair: Race, Class, and Ideology in Singapore

26Sep

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Human Rights, Politics

The Trial of Subhas Nair: Race, Class, and Ideology in Singapore

BY ADI SALEEM Image of Subhas Nair, Wikipedia Fair Use. On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, the Indian Singaporean rapper more commonly known as Subhas, was found guilty on four counts of “promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of race and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony” under section 298A(a) of the Penal Code 1871. On September 5, 2023, Subhas was sentenced to six weeks in prison. Subhas had previously been issued a two-year conditional warning by the Singapore Police for a satirical rap video he released with his sister Preeti Nair, commonly known as Preetipls, critiquing a Havas advertisement for Nets, a Singaporean electronic payment service provider, which featured a Chinese Singaporean actor, Denn...

Educators as Public Intellectuals in an Age of Tyranny: Confront, Fight Back and Organize

26Sep

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Politics

Educators as Public Intellectuals in an Age of Tyranny: Confront, Fight Back and Organize

BY HENRY GIROUX Book burners. Image: JSC and AI Art Generator. In his landmark book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that social scientists (and educators) have an obligation to address the question of truth and its political meaning during a time of widely communicated nonsense. He further argues that in addition to a politics of truth, social scientists have to support the values of reason and human freedom. He also believed that the role of social scientists was to disturb, bear witness, and resist systems of oppression. In this view, intellectuals have to have a deep sense of commitment and civic courage while “writing with vigor and clarity for the general reader [in order] to sustain the idea and the hope of a public culture.”[1] These pr...

Protecting Democracy From Itself: Can the Fourteenth Amendment Save the Republic?

25Sep

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Politics, USA

Protecting Democracy From Itself: Can the Fourteenth Amendment Save the Republic?

BY DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: Rawpixel Ltd – CC BY 2.0 Winston Churchill once exclaimed that ” democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” With democracy facing challenges in the US the likes that perhaps not seen since the Civil War, the question is what to do. This question takes on exceptional salience with the coming 2024 presidential elections and the prospect that Donald Trump could again be re-elected. This has prompted some to call for some to employ the Fourteenth Amendment to declare Trump an insurrectionist and declare him ineligible for office. As attractive as this solution may sound, it is a dangerous tool to solve a pressing problem. Democracies ...

Big truths that RFK Jr ignores in his eagerness to support the Nazi entity

14Sep

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Big truths that RFK Jr ignores in his eagerness to support the Nazi entity

Big truths that RFK Jr ignores in his eagerness to support Israel CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is willing to call out the US government on many issues important issues – but our support for human rights abuser Israel is oddly not one of them. (photo) Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” by Chris Hedges, reposted from ScheerPost, August 13, 2023 [EDITOR’S NOTE: This is t...

7Sep

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Politics

‘Abolition’ Communism

Abolition Communism BY ROBIN D.G. KELLEY https://www.youtube.com/embed/AWDaBkX6aW0?si=xKFD5JKYMCcbDeSF https://youtu.be/AWDaBkX6aW0 Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. Robin D. G. Kelley, who teaches at UCLA, is the author of the remarkable biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original&nbs...

Marxism for Generation Z: Is Barbie Out to Change the World or Just Her Own Life?

21Aug

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Politics

Marxism for Generation Z: Is Barbie Out to Change the World or Just Her Own Life?

BY WALDEN BELLO Photograph Source: Phillip Pessar – CC BY 2.0 I finally got what director Greta Gerwig was up to in her movie Barbie that features Margot Robbie as the adult doll Barbie. She’s out to give a lesson in Marxism, the candy-coated kind that she thinks is palatable to Gen Z. At one level, Barbie is a film targeted at the coming-of-age demographic, works out their “existential crises,” and resolves this with a stereotypical Hollywood ending. But there’s another, deeper level, and this is aimed at Gen Z’s subconscious. For the most part, the two levels proceed in a congenial, parallel fashion, until the end—but let’s leave that for later. To fully appreciate what Gerwig is trying to do, you have to use a companion text, Marx’s Theses on ...