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Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021

2Jan

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Politics

Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021

BY MEDEA BENJAMIN Boric in the celebrations after his victory in the 2021 presidential election. Photograph Source: Fotografoencampana – CC BY-SA 4.0 This year, 2021, began with a huge sense of relief as Trump left office. We hoped to emerge from the ravages of COVID, pass a hefty Build Back Better (BBB) bill, and make significant cuts to the Pentagon budget. But, alas, we faced a January 6 white nationalist insurrection, two new COVID mutations, a sliced-and-diced BBB bill that didn’t pass, and a Pentagon budget that actually INCREASED! It was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer: 1. The U.S. survived its first major coup plot on January 6 and key right-wing groups are on the wane. With participants in the insurrection being char...

27Dec

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Politics

Embracing Che: The Man Behind the Myth

BY JONAH RASKIN Photograph Source: Wagner T. Cassimiro “Aranha” – CC BY 2.0 In 1968, Fidel Castro wrote an impassioned introduction to Che Guevara’s Bolivian Diary in which he noted that in the US “in the most combative demonstrations for civil rights and against the aggression in Vietnam, his image is brandished as a symbol of struggle.” Yes, that was true. Fidel went on to explain, “This is because Che embodies, in its purest and most selfless form, the international spirit that marks the world of today and that will characterize even more the world of tomorrow.” I remember 1968 as a year of nearly unparalleled international solidarity, when Che’s legacy inspired a generation or two that aimed to dismantle American imperialism, make a revolution and usher in ...

Chomsky: Outdated US Cold War Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict

23Dec

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Politics, USA

Chomsky: Outdated US Cold War Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Ukrainian soldiers walk along the front lines with Russia-backed separatists, not far from town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on December 11, 2021. BY: C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout The tension on the Russia-Ukraine border represents an ongoing conflict between two nations with many cultural affinities, but is also part of a much larger rivalry between the U.S. and Europe on one side, and Russia on the other. As Noam Chomsky reminds us in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows, in 2014, a Russia-supported government in Ukraine was forcefully removed from power by a coup supported by the U.S. and replaced by a U.S. and European-backed government. It was a development that brought closer to war the two main antagonists of the Cold War era, as Moscow r...

23Dec

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Politics, USA

America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral

BY WALTER L. HIXSON Photograph Source: Steve Jurvetson – CC BY 2.0 American foreign policy today is in a reactionary death spiral. Never has a new “national security” policy paradigm been more desperately needed, yet there is not even a glimpse of salvation on the horizon—wherever you look you will find policies that speak to the past and offer little hope for a viable global future. The paradigm that ensnares American diplomacy cemented some 75 years ago with World War II and the Cold War. Those cataclysmic events forged an enduring American national security state characterized by unlimited global intervention, cultivation of an ever-metastasizing “military-industrial complex,” and endless and often racialized enemy-othering followed by highly destructive yet ultimatel...

Worldwide Walkouts – An Ongoing Campaign

19Dec

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Politics, World

Worldwide Walkouts – An Ongoing Campaign

Children’s Health Defense Calling all Advocates to Show Up Strong in 2022 Show up at your statehouse on the first day of legislative session. People around the globe are showing up in protest of tyrannical government overreach and unconstitutional mandates to demand that lawmakers defend freedom. Our Defenders around the globe worked hard in 2021 using their voices and presence to stand against tyranny, discrimination, coercion and unconstitutional mandates. This unique time in history calls for consistent daily action and ongoing peaceful non-compliance to preserve freedoms and return to democracy. Constituents and legislators are being barred entry into their statehouses based on their vaccination status. In some states, legislators have surrendered their power to corrupt g...

An angry rift between Trump and Bannon signals the far-right’s future

18Dec

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

An angry rift between Trump and Bannon signals the far-right’s future

There may be no greater transgression in MAGA-land than refusing to engage in maximal corruption on Donald Trump’s behalf By Jim W. Dean, …from the Washinton Post [ Editor’s Note: So what’s going on with Bannon? He knows Trump hates anyone and everyone getting more airtime than he. But then Trump also needs to show he has the Republican party in his pocket. You could say they need each other, but if Trump croaked, Bannon would not need Trump anymore and could present himself as the new and improved version that does not use run on sentences and can speak without two teleprompters. So here we have Bannon, using his Insurrection litigation as free publicity, and polishing up his ‘bad boy’ credentials to be first in line if Trump croaks, as Bannon could possibly...

Marxism, Anarchism, and The Dawn of Everything

17Dec

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Marxism, Anarchism, and The Dawn of Everything

BY SEIJI YAMADA Photograph Source: _sarchi – CC BY 2.0 In The Dawn of Everything, the late anthropologist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow ask how we got stuck in the ways of thinking and the ways of life we have now. This review is from my personal perspectives on science and revolutionary thought. Because we live in a world divided into nation-states, because capitalism rules our lives, because the boss tells us what we can and cannot do – we forget that things were different before. We forget that we ever had any sort of freedom. Graeber and Wengrow identify these freedoms as (1) the freedom to move away,(2) the freedom to disobey, and(3) the freedom to shape society in a way that we choose. They identify the Enlightenment as the source of man...

Zionist Jewish Chronicle deletes article about Corbyn’s support for Islington Chanukah event

17Dec

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Media, Politics, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist Jewish Chronicle deletes article about Corbyn’s support for Islington Chanukah event

Jewish Chronicle deletes article about Corbyn’s support for Islington Chanukah event by: SKWAWKBOX Article saying he shouldn’t have been invited also deleted The Jewish Chronicle, which spent years attacking former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – and paid out tens of thousands in compensation for smearing his supporters – deleted a 2017 article covering Jeremy Corbyn’s warm relations with the local Jewish community in his Islington constituency. The original article showed a picture depicting the obviously good relations Corbyn enjoys with his Jewish constituents – he helped save an Orthodox Jewish cemetery from being turned into a housing development by the local council – and notes the comments of local Rabbi Mendy Korer that Corbyn had always supported th...

Class: The legacy of Asian American struggle

7Dec

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Politics, USA

Class: The legacy of Asian American struggle

By Sheila Xiao and Rachel Hu In the most recent wave of anti-Asian attacks, from the shooting of six Asian spa workers in Atlanta to the police killings of Christian Hall and Angelo Quinto, Asian Americans are demanding that Asian American history is told. We want to draw on this revolutionary legacy and unite to fight back! In this study series, Sheila Xiao of Pivot to Peace details the history of discrimination Asian Americans have faced. She dives deeper into the Tacoma method, massacres against Chinese Americans, yellow peril, Japanese internment, and more. In the second half of this study, Rachel Hu of the ANSWER Coalition shares the history of radical organizing in the Asian American community. From Ir Wor Keun to the struggle to defend the I-hotel, Asian Americans hav...

Study guide: Have Black lives ever mattered?

7Dec

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Study guide: Have Black lives ever mattered?

By Liberation School Mumia Abu-Jamal’s book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? addresses the long history of racist police and state repression. It offers contemporary organizers crucial historical insights and lessons, as well as advice, on organizing to stop the war on Black America today. For more background on the book and on Mumia Abu-Jamal, see Liberation School‘s companion article here. Introduction Discuss the broader historical context in which Mumia situates the movement for Black lives.Mumia authored the Introduction in 2017. What insights does it offer for understanding of the uprising against racism during the summer of 2020?How does Mumia connect the history of what would become capitalism in the Western hemisphere to the genocide of Native...