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4Aug

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China, Politics, Russia, USA

The New Cold War Heats Up

by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Photograph Source: lilivanili – CC BY 2.0 At this time of all times, when the world is staggering from the shattering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be sensible for nations to pull together in order to devise policies and practicalities to counter and defeat the devastation that is taking place and seems likely to increase. Now is the time for cooperation, compromise and mutual assistance in all spheres of medical research and in devising protective measures which can be emplaced and enforced with the minimum of dislocation. Internationalism should be the norm, and the best brains in the world should be in harness, from Beijing to Boston and beyond. But they’re not, because there are some countries that are resolutely r...

Beyond John Muir’s Racism: The Sierra Club and the Changing Face of Environmentalism

4Aug

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Beyond John Muir’s Racism: The Sierra Club and the Changing Face of Environmentalism

by JOSHUA FRANK Sierra Club outing, 1902. It’s about 100 years too late, but the well-heeled Sierra Club is finally grappling with its founder’s racist past. John Muir, lauded by many as the grandfather of the modern conservation movement, saw the West as a bastion of untrammeled freedom. Not for Indigenous peoples or Black slaves, of course, but for white colonialists. In 1868, Muir first visited Ahwahnee (Yosemite) and by then, as Muir knew full well, the area’s original inhabitants were being forced off their lands and onto reservations. Others were being shipped off to Christian internment camps for indoctrination, while many more were simply slaughtered to make way for European settlers. Muir openly despised the Miwoks from Ahwahnee, referring to them as “dirty,” “...

3Aug

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Campaigns, Politics

Take It Down!: Symbolic Politics Is Just That

No one can right the wrongs perpetrated in the past and yet we must address the injustices of the present. byTodd Cronan, Charles Palermo A crew removes the statue of confederateMatthew Fontaine Maury located at the intersection of Monument Avenue and N Belmont Avenue in Richmond, VA on July 2, 2020. (Photo: John McDonnell/The Washington Post/Getty Images) At this moment faculty, students, and administrators at our universities are busily meeting to discuss the renaming of buildings. At Emory in Atlanta, there is a call to rename Longstreet Means residence hall. The case against the name is this: Augustus Longstreet fought for the confederacy and Alexander Means supported the confederacy and wrote about his family’s slaves in his journals. William & Mary has begun a...

3Aug

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C.I.A, Politics, USA

Rising Autocracy

by RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair This is not only one of the worst times for American democracy, it is one of the most dangerous times. The creeping – and creepy – autocracy that is the hallmark of President Donald Trump and his inept, ineffective administration of court loyalists has slithered further into upending America’s freedoms with the dispatch of federal officials onto the streets of Portland, Oregon., despite the repeated objections of federal, state and local leaders. The purpose: to police and detain protesters who have staged daily demonstrations since the May 25 cop killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement to secure more racially just law enforcement. This is the tactic of police states, a red line i...

Money Capital vs Life Capital: the War of Values We Live or Die By

3Aug

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Politics, USA

Money Capital vs Life Capital: the War of Values We Live or Die By

by JOHN MCMURTRY – JEFFERY KLAEHN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Author of UNESCOs ‘Philosophy and World Problems’, Professor John McMurtry is questioned on the planetary life-system crisis by media critic Dr. Jeffery Klaehn. Klaehn: You have stated that ‘the war of values is what is least comprehended in our multi-level world crisis’. What is this war of values? McMurtry: The blind spot at the highest levels of critical thought is on the underlying value system we are ruled by. The dominant assumption is that ‘moral compass’ and ‘values’ are a matter of individual preferences, or are ideological masks for ruling-class interests. The value system we in fact live by is presupposed as economic necessity and inevitable. We are in this way trappe...

Tear Gas and Thugs at the BLM Protests in Portland

2Aug

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Tear Gas and Thugs at the BLM Protests in Portland

by BETTE LEE On the 59th night of BLM protests on July 25th at the federal courthouse, I was one of the thousands of protestors who went there. It took me a while to struggle through my fears of getting infected with the virus and the limits to my mobility due to old age and hip arthritis. But like so many others, I could no longer stay home. I knew from my previous experiences at many protests over the years, against war, racism, ICE, inequality, and exploitation of workers, that the police were extremely violent, often attacking us with little or no provocations. What was new was that the police had been attacking the BLM protestors non-stop for 58 nights with tear gas, pepper spray, flash grenades, and “non-lethal” munitions. In contrast to their long...

2Aug

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Politics, USA

Dem Party Platform Disappoints

What’s there to say about the 80-page draft Democratic Party Platform? There’s something in it for everyone, maybe that’s why it’s so long. It’s full of lofty goals and language that promises the moon. As a life-long Democrat, I found myself agreeing with 90+% of it, and taking notes to tweak it here and there. The light-bulb went on about half way through my review when I realized that my “tweaks” actually pointed to a much bigger problem. Even if the Democratic Party could make good on its intentions — and we all know it will require the Democrats to regain control of the Senate, build a stronger majority in the House, and win the Presidency in 2020! — this draft platform reads like a well-worn, dusty paperback from the 1990’s with ideas that might have galvanized my p...

German Court Sends 93 Year-Old Ex-Guard To Prison For Only 3 Years For Helping ‘Murder’ 5,230 Jews

1Aug

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Germany, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

German Court Sends 93 Year-Old Ex-Guard To Prison For Only 3 Years For Helping ‘Murder’ 5,230 Jews

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr German prosecutors are recommending that a 93-year-old ex-guard who is on trial for allegedly being an accessory in the murder of 5,230 Jews at the Stutthof concentration camp should be given a inexplicably light prison sentence of only three years: “The accused is charged with accessory to murder on 5,230 counts,” prosecutor Lars Mahnke told a court in Hamburg.The defendant, Bruno Dey, was aged 17 and 18 when he served as an SS guard at the Nazi concentration camp in Stutthof between August 9, 1944 and April 26, 1945.He is being tried by a juvenile court, because of his age at the time of the World War II crimes.The prosecution argues that Dey had known at the time what was happening at the camp, located near the city of Gdansk, namely&nb...

Algeria wants France to apologize for colonial past

1Aug

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Africa, France, Politics

Algeria wants France to apologize for colonial past

Algeria is waiting for an apology for France's colonial occupation of the North African country, the president said, expressing hope that Emmanuel Macron would build on recent conciliatory overtures. A global reexamination of the legacy of colonialism has been unleashed by the May killing of unarmed African American George Floyd by a white police officer, which sparked mass protests around the world. "We have already had half-apologies. The next step is needed... we await it," President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said Saturday in an interview with news channel France 24. France's 132 years of colonial rule in Algeria, and the brutal eight-year war that ended it, have left a legacy of often prickly relations between the two countries. In what has been seen as a thaw in ties, Algeria o...

31Jul

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Democrats call for aid cut to 'Israel' over annexation

Michael F. Brown Power Suits Democratic lawmakers are signing a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling to cut aid to Israel if it proceeds with annexation. Mike TheilerUPI Four women in the US Congress say that if Israel proceeds with further annexation plans in the occupied West Bank it would “lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state.” Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Betty McCollum and Pramila Jayapal are making the claim in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that they are circulating for signature among colleagues. According to Politico, the letter has been signed by nine more lawmakers including Senator Bernie Sanders. Although...