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On October 16th the Climate Justice Charter will be taken to South Africa’s national parliament, together with the climate science future document, with the demand it be adopted as per section 234 of the South African constitution, which provides for charters to be adopted. All political parties will be invited to a debate on the … Continue reading South Africa’s Climate Justice Charter →

Third Party Blues
Today, who is a Democrat? Who is a Republican? Is there really a difference?

In my latest article for Shadowproof I delve into the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office, which works on everything...
The post Homeland Security in Hollywood: How the Dept Controls Its Image On Screen first appeared on Spy Culture.

No ruling class could survive if it wasn’t attentive to its own interest consciously trying to anticipate control/ initiate events at home & abroad both overtly & secretly.
The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.
— Michael Parenti, 1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32 – Dirty truths (1996), first edition

In its desperate race to survive its series of crises, capitalism keeps clinging onto its old tool of dividing the working class. But, since commencing its political fight, the working class has uplifted a different call: Workers of the world unite! More than one hundred years ago, the proletariat in Russia trampled over all the divisions among the working class created by capital and achieved a historic victory — the Great October Revolution.

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Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris for his running mate kicked off a flurry of think pieces in the media. Some of these opinions have attacked the anti-Black and casteist attitudes still prevalent among South Asians in the subcontinent and in the global diaspora.

  A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, goes an old Chinese saying.  In the present context, that single step – and an absolutely essential step – for reclaiming the soul of India, is the coimng together of the social movements, non-party groups and the political parties – and this was … Continue reading The ‘Ecopolitical’ Imperative and the Janta Parliament →

Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks to Danny Haiphong, a contributor at the Black Agenda Report, about why some US leftwing media outlets repeat State Department talking points on China.   Haiphong also challenges some of the more hackneyed talking points repeated in putatively left media, including that “China is capitalist” and “China has imperialist […]
The post US ‘left’ aligns with State Department on China Cold War appeared first on The Grayzone.

The bias that social media platforms such as Facebook display reflects their own world-view as much as it does the regimes they support. A few gave the appearance of being truly psychopathic individuals. The mass of others were ragged and illiterate peasants easily roused to hatred of the Tutsi. Perhaps the most sinister people I … Continue reading Corporate Social Media in India: Sell Hate, Enjoy Profit →