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[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades.  From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted slogans, waved flags and wept over the dispossession of their Palestinian brethren.  Yet, when an industrial-scale invasion laid waste to Gaza, reducing neighborhoods to ash and children to statistics, the Arab world’s response to this ultimate crucible was a deafening unforgivable silence. Across a fractured region of 450 million, armed with immense wealth, strategic geography and vast institutional power, the collective reaction to the unfolding horror was not intervention, economic warfare nor…

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[ad_1] In just one of the multiplying examples of abusive technology developments, physical literature is being destroyed in order to train generative AI products to take our jobs and pollute our environment. (Latemplanza /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0) By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s NewsletterListen to Tim Foley read this article. Today in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained C.I.A. operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them. E-commerce giant eBay has just agreed to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by the company’s shockingly aggressive gangstalking operation against a Massachusetts couple who criticized the company’s…

[ad_1] Anthony Fauci was once presented as the unimpeachable voice of science. Now, confronted with questions about gain-of-function research, the Wuhan laboratory and what government officials knew about COVID-19’s origins, he has invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern joins Robert Scheer to examine the newly released documents, the intelligence agencies accused of burying the truth and a corporate press more interested in protecting official narratives than exposing them. Millions died, the world was upended—and Washington still believes the public is not entitled to honest answers. For years, Americans were told to trust the experts,…

[ad_1] “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe” Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer said in his ‘Tears in the Rain’, speech at the end of Blade Runner. A film that grapples with the reality of biological and synthetic life, what is real and with the many versions of the film, what’s the real ending, the real message and who is, synthetic. What symbolism means, or doesn’t. We live in a post Blade Runner world of 2019, the replicants as imagined then, are yet to exist but there is a drive and affinity for artificial depictions of life. Bots and…

[ad_1] Harrington speaking at a Socialist International Congress in Vancouver, 1978 – Public Domain Most of you will not know who Michael Harrington was.   Or why he should be spinning.  Let me explain. He was the founder of the Democratic Socialists of America in 1982 and its leader until he died in 1989.  But any comparison between the DSA he created and what is now getting headlines for shaking up the Democratic Party is tenuous at best, and the difference between what he championed and what this younger cohort of amateurs puts forth is a great chasm whose winds are…

[ad_1] Democrats can’t win back the white working class with staged populism while embracing the policies and elites that drove those voters away. The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy. Hunting for the Left-Wing Blue-Collar American Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet a growing body of comparative historical research has provided evidence that a more fundamental question deserves attention: How was and how are governments funded? Across thousands of years of human history, one of the strongest predictors of whether governance becomes concentrated in the hands of a few is not population size, technological development, cultural affiliation, or even geography. It is the degree…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s hard to keep up with the fascism that is unfolding as the Trump MAGA regime and party bid to consolidate a new form of governance atop the United States. Here, below, are some important recent developments from the Trump47 campaign to makeover US government and society on fascist lines. Threatening Epic War Crimes Against Humanity In an interview with Fatherland (FOX) News earlier this week, the fascist US president threatened to bomb all of Iran’s bridges and power plants, explicitly adding that the nation’s entire population of 91 million might soon be without…