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11Aug

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Politics, World

Globalization, Greed and Reality

BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Photo by Jon Tyson It wasn’t long ago that economists in our capitalist system were absolutely giddy over what they dubbed “globalization.” In this reality-denying construct, nations all over the planet would work together, each producing commodities using available resources, and we’d all be happily living in a Golden Age of peace and prosperity for all. “A rising tide would lift all boats” we were told. But now globalization has run headlong into the grim realities of war, resource depletion, and a planet on fire. Toss in wars, international sanctions, the pandemic, and globalization, for what it was ever worth, is deader than a doornail. Looked at objectively, one can credibly wonder how these economists and politicians ever expected humanity to ...

9Aug

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Environment, Politics, USA

The Urgency of Nuclear Abolition

BY RAY ACHESON B-29 over Osaka on 1 June 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo) After a year and a half’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is finally scheduled to meet from 1–26 August 2022. Considered by most governments to be the “cornerstone” of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime, the NPT is facing serious challenges that threaten not only this upcoming Review Conference but the Treaty itself. During the period of postponement, the nuclear-armed states have continued to modernise their nuclear weapon arsenals, some have announced increases in the size of their stockpiles, and others have expanded their delivery systems. The US government has changed, but it still seems intent on prefiguring a ...

Biden, Pelosi and the Futility of Dual Containment

9Aug

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Politics, USA

Biden, Pelosi and the Futility of Dual Containment

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain First, there was containment—and then there was dual containment. George F. Kennan is credited with the design of containment to limit the geopolitical reach of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, too many U.S. leaders and strategists also used the idea of containment to support a moral crusade on behalf of the so-called free world. President Joe Biden, for example, has unwisely divided the world into authoritarianism and democracy. This kind of universalism rarely, if ever, succeeds in fashioning an effective alliance. Dual containment is more problematic than any single-minded concept of containment. The Truman administration briefly found itself in a policy of dual containment i...

Donation Politics: Biden’s Global Hypocrisy Starts at Home

3Aug

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Politics, USA

Donation Politics: Biden’s Global Hypocrisy Starts at Home

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Palácio do Planalto – CC BY 2.0 A few days ago among the many solicitations for funds to support Democratic candidates around the country in the 2022 elections came one that caught my eye with this obviously phony seductive line “I’d like to give you a call, Richard.” Reading the next line, none other than the U.S. President apparently with much time to waste, was supposedly eager to learn my views on what government might do better on my behalf, purporting even to be on a first-name basis with me despite the utter absence of any prior contact. To dumb down the President for the sake of a hypocritical sales pitch struck me as distasteful, but also revealing. The approach became even more personal a day or two later when the same lure li...

The Pope, the War Bonnet and the Real Meaning of the Doctrine of Discovery

24Jul

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Politics

The Pope, the War Bonnet and the Real Meaning of the Doctrine of Discovery

BY JODE GOUDY The Pope in Edmonton, Alberta. Image: CTV. Sigh … well number one I disagree with Willie Littlechild’s determination to give Pope Francis a Headress/Warbonnet … but I have to forgive him because I am of Creation. Willie along with other delegates from various Native Nations throughout time have been part of efforts seeking something from the Vatican … whether it be an apology, rescinding of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, returning of all of our ceremonial items … all are true and righteous asks. It is extremely hard to understand the ramifications and the extent of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Proper context, understanding details, and nuances are of upmost critical importance … and the importance of this is why I’ve chosen to write this. If ...

Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?

23Jul

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Politics

Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Navajo children are especially vulnerable to uranium exposure and among the least protected. (Photo: Phil Darnell/Wikimedia Commons) I am sure that certain Democratic senators such as Cory Booker and Sheldon Whitehouse, who are reasonably progressive on a host of social issues, would not considers themselves racist, sexist or ageist. Nuclear power is all three of these things, yet Booker, Whitehouse and a number of others on the Democratic left, support nuclear power with almost fervent evangelism. Let’s start with racism. The fuel for nuclear power plants comes from uranium, which must be mined. The majority of those who have mined it in this country — and would again under new bills such as the ‘International Nuclear Energy Act of 2022’ forwarded by...

Beyond Crisis: The Possibilities and Growing Challenges in Building a Left Asian American Politics

23Jul

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Politics

Beyond Crisis: The Possibilities and Growing Challenges in Building a Left Asian American Politics

BY SUDIP BHATTACHARYA Image by Jason Leung. This June marked the fortieth anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man beaten to death by two white men in Detroit. The two white men who attacked Chin, while Chin was out celebrating at a bar with friends, did so believing he was Japanese. At the time, much like China now, Japan was viewed as the major economic competitor of the U.S., and therefore, the main reason for the economic downturn in cities like Detroit. Aside from the fact that Japan wasn’t the main reason for why there was another U.S. economic recession, Chin had as much control over the machinations of global capitalist order as any individual working person, which was none. “They made him a scapegoat,” said Annie Tan, Chin’s cous...

Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right

22Jul

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Politics, USA

Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right

BY STAN COX Priti Gulati Cox. On Juneteenth weekend, tens of thousands of people walked up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol as part of the epically titled Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. (Priti Gulati Cox and I traveled via Amtrak from Kansas to join in.) Although we were following the footsteps of a mob that had stormed the Capitol seventeen months earlier, this march embodied the polar opposite worldview. At the rally ending the march, Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. William J. Barber II made that clear, saying that the event was not a violent insurrection but rather “a resurrection” of people power against violence. Like its namesake led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the P...

Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military and Police

20Jul

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Politics, USA

Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military and Police

The Proud Boys, a right-wing pro-Trump group heavily armed with military-grade weapons, gather for a rally against anti-fascists in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020. (Photo: John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images). Zero House Republicans supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks. KENNY STANCIL Zero House Republicans on Wednesday supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks. Rep. Brad Schneider's (D-Ill.) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 directing the...

Where Is Joe? This Crisis of Democracy Demands a Leader, Not a Lame Duck

12Jul

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Politics, USA

Where Is Joe? This Crisis of Democracy Demands a Leader, Not a Lame Duck

U.S. President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer before presenting the Medal of Honor to four U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War during an event in the East Room of the White House on July 05, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images). It's a serious handicap for an elected leader to be considered a lame duck. Far worse, though, for the "leader" to be considered just plain lame. JIM HIGHTOWER By Creators.com Former President Donald Trump's criminal use of lies and mob violence to steal the 2020 election failed, but it's not the only recent coup attack on our democracy. In the last few years, a cabal of right-wing zealots have plotted to seize control of the U.S. Supreme Court. By hook and crook, they've installed a six-judge majority, and...