Category: Thinking Politically
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Genocide Fuels Climate Crisis.
The Guardian reports that since October 7, “olive groves and farms [in Gaza] have been reduced to packed earth; soil and groundwater have been contaminated by munitions and toxins; the sea is choked with sewage and waste; the air polluted by smoke and particulate matter.” Ecocide is part of Israel’s program of genocide.
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The Gaza Genocide: Who is Complicit?
Clearly, the major media and the American public are discounting the possibility that Joe Biden and his White House enablers could ever be prosecuted for complicity in genocide. They should think again. The United States is a member of the Genocide Convention of 1948. Article III includes among punishable acts, “Complicity in Genocide.” Article IV…
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Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Attacked in St. Louis
Don Fitz (fitzdon@aol.com) writes for and is on the Editorial Board of Green Social Thought where this article first appeared. He has been the St. Louis Green Party candidate for County Assessor and candidate of the Missouri Green Party for State Auditor and Governor. He is author of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution (2020).
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The Modern Day Militarized Fort!
The wave of cop cities being constructed across the nation must be analyzed through the lens of settler colonialism and the state’s effort to maintain its dominance by expanding the police state. This week represents the first anniversary of the State’s attack and arrest of Amin Chaoui and others who were challenging its attempt to build another…
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The Left, the Far Right, and Climate Chaos
There is a new specter haunting Europe. That specter is the far-right. But it is only a specter, an apparition, no matter how many likes, shares and even votes it gets. Behind that specter there rises a very meaty and material monster — the climate crisis — that will destroy capitalism no matter how many…
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200…
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Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo
June 6, 2021, was a day which shocked many in Peru’s oligarchy. Pedro Castillo Terrones, a rural schoolteacher who had never before been elected to office, won the second round of the presidential election with just over 50.13% of the vote. From that day on, still in disbelief, the Peruvian oligarchy declared war on Castillo.…
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An African View On Ukraine
When the African people were fighting for their independence for their liberation, those who are condemning Russia today, we are not with them [then]. But they never took our side. They took the side of the colonialists. They took the side of the side of apartheid, they took their side of racist superiority against the…
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For Black Working Class Midterms Mean Nothing
And while the duopoly represents the primary political contradiction obscuring the reality of the dictatorship of capital, the most aggressive neoliberal actors now operate in and through the democratic party. Consequently, the unspoken character of the competition between the two parties is that elections have now shaped up since 2016 as a contest between the…