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How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.” Deforestation in Papua New...
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20245 min read
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Every Place in Gaza—Including Schools—Is a Target
Absolute devastation in Gaza -- image via the Palestinian People's Party By Vijay Prashad It is almost as if the Israeli army is trying...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20245 min read
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Capitalism, Mass Anger, and 2024 Elections
Public domain image By Richard D. Wolff In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French...
Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20249 min read
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China denounces US imperialist National Endowment for Democracy for "carrying out subversion, infiltration and sabotage across the world"
In a remarkable recent document, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China has unequivocally denounced the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20242 min read
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OCLAE: 58 years of solidarity, struggle and commitment
A look at the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Organization of Students (OCLAE) on the 58th anniversary of its founding. By...
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20248 min read
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US and 6 western ambassadors shamefully skip Nagasaki atomic bomb memorial ceremony
A scene from the ceremony -- image via X By Michael Laxer In a truly shameful decision, ambassadors from the United States, the UK,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20242 min read
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Anti-abortion centers in the US deceive patients. Here is how we fight back.
“Crisis pregnancy centers” deceive patients, putting their health at risk. Education can help patients avoid these dangerous centers. By...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20243 min read
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Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the far right – and the current violence is the result
Image via video screenshot By Chris Allen, Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester As someone who has...
Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20244 min read
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Mass deportations in the US would be a nightmare
The popular GOP slogan would tear millions of families apart, including mine. It would also be a moral, logistical, and economic...
Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20243 min read
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The US People Must Stand up Against an Unwinnable War With China
It’s time to tell our government that war with China is not only unacceptable, but global suicide. An F-35C Lightning II launches from...
Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20245 min read
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Looking at AMLO's radical new housing plan for Mexico
Dignified, affordable housing for working people provided by the government with constitutional guarantees. Leftists in the west should...
Michael Laxer
Aug 8, 20242 min read
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Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read
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The Conundrums of Bangladeshi Politics
Image from the street protests in Bangladesh that brought down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- image via X By Vijay Prashad On Monday,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20249 min read
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Bangladesh: A Popular Upsurge
Protesters in Bangladesh storm the residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- image via video screenshot Statements from the Communist...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20243 min read
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki admonish: Abolish all nuclear weapons!
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial - Alec.cortez, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons...
Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20242 min read
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The Role of Ancient DNA in Modern Traits
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar...
Michael Laxer
Aug 5, 20246 min read
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Trump’s Battle for U.S. Sports
Donald Trump’s targeting of established sports leagues and promotion of alternatives have partly reshaped the American sports landscape....
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20248 min read
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Community in Motion
Bike co-ops uphold a tradition of self-empowerment through cycling. Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4....
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20246 min read
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20245 min read
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Left parties in India call for national Palestine solidarity protest August 3
Leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, All India Forward Bloc and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20242 min read
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