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For the Friends of Socialist China, a Very Bad Week

December 10, 2022 By Stephen Gowans It has been a tough week for the star-gazers who run a platform called Friends of Socialist China, a motley collection of Sinophiles and pretend-Marxists who support “the People’s Republic of China” and aim to “spread understanding of” what they call “Chinese socialism.” With Beijing lifting Covid restrictions in … Continue reading For the Friends of Socialist China, a Very Bad Week →

Balenciaga, Eugenics, and Fabian Socialism: Jay Dyer & Richard Grove

Richard Grove of https://grandtheftworld.com/ joins guest host Jay Dyer of https://jaysanalysis.com/ to break down the globalist elements of the collapse of society. Remember to boost that T naturally with 50% all products at Choq.com using promo code ‘JAY50‘ Subscribe to JaysAnalysis in the Purchase Membership section to access the archives of videos and interviews and lectures or purchase my books […]

Police Violence against the Fisher People on the Kerala Coast: A People’s Account

Below, I share a write-up by Johnson Jament, an academic researcher from the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district, where an intense struggle against the Adani Port Project has been unfolding. Arrayed on opposing sides are the fisher people who have inhabited the coast since the past 500 years (according to historical record) and more, whose … Continue reading Police Violence against the Fisher People on the Kerala Coast: A People’s Account →

Would a Plan for a Just Peace in Ukraine Make Any Difference?

December 5, 2022 By Stephen Gowans Would a peace plan for Ukraine that addresses each parties’ ostensible concerns about security and ethnic rights create a lasting peace? In my view, it would not. The parties’ substantive concerns are economic. Concerns about security and ethnic rights, while real, conceal more profound issues. A plan that addresses … Continue reading Would a Plan for a Just Peace in Ukraine Make Any Difference? →

Who are these ‘Hindus’? The Tragedy of Vizhinjam and the Despicable Cruelty of the Majority

The struggle against the ecologically-fatal Adani seaport being built at the seaside village of Vizhinjam in south Kerala is probably the first large-scale instance of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ in the history of this state. The state — the ruling government, the police, and judiciary — hold hands now in their effort to dispossess the large … Continue reading Who are these ‘Hindus’?

Black and Blue: The Many Ways of Domestic Violence World

We are in a rape culture. We have a million examples in this neoliberal and neocon country of that. We have the fact of one out of 12 or 15 girls and women losing their viriginity through sexual assault. We have what — one out of five in this country experiencing sexual assault by the […]
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American Democracy: Buying and Selling Elections

This was the most important election in American history, as was the previous one, the one before that, and all previous exercises of marketing that pose as democratic rule in our great example of how to fool most of the people most of the time. Of course, this election, as all others, cost more money […]
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From Pagan Animism to Alienation

Orientation: the politics of the sacred The word “pagan” is one of those words that has been worked over by monotheists and secular rulers so that it has many meanings, mostly  negative. This has been the case except for the past fifty years when Neopaganism has made a comeback, thanks mostly to the women’s movement. […]
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