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[ad_1] It’s been 250 years since calls for “no taxation without representation” led to the Declaration of Independence, which started the fight and founding of the United States. The people living in the center of the celebration of this feat tell a different story: The call for democracy is incomplete. “We cannot call ourselves a democracy while hundreds of thousands of people are living on U.S. soil without the full rights of other citizens,” said Aparna Raj, the Democratic Socialist who recently won Washington D.C.’s Democratic primary election for Ward 1 and has lived in the city for 11 years.…

[ad_1] Aline Zunzunegui, Inequality.org. The people of Mexico demanded that the people’s game be returned to them. The World Cup came home. For weeks, Mexico stood at the center of the world, carried there by the most beautiful and passionate game on earth. Millions of Mexicans took to the streets, filled public squares, improvised screens, and celebrated with strangers as if we had known each other all our lives. Isn’t that, in the end, the dream of any community? To meet without explanations, to share emotion with someone who wears different colors, lives in another neighborhood, or thinks differently?  Celebration…

[ad_1] Warnings Aren't Needed at The Smithsonian [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Odysseus Visits the Smithsonian [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute. “Fear turns Black politics on its head.” – Glen Ford As Black Agenda Report contributor Anthony Rogers-Wright recently reported, there is a new trope in leftist or perhaps leftish circles regarding Black voters. This new conventional wisdom says that Black voters are not on the left and are not supportive of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and others in that wing of the…

[ad_1] Donald Trump ranted for more than an hour at the Friday event about the journalists and politicians who’ve been critical of his presidency, or have at some point disagreed with him. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The recent illegal immigrant voters debacle in New Jersey proves new measures to prevent voter fraud are needed. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Juan Cole Informed Comment  Al Jazeera reports that China is attempting to accelerate its already impressive green energy revolution in the face of the disruption of petroleum and natural gas supplies caused by the Netanyahu-Trump war on Iran. It reports that about half of the country’s taxis are already electric, and Beijing is aiming for 80% of its heavy trucks to be battery electric within five years. (Meeting this goal requires the implementation of newly developed Chinese truck battery technology.) Moreover, China has reduced its petroleum imports by about half during the Hormuz crisis, depending on massive state and…

[ad_1] In the summer of 2019, Chennai reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding villages. This is the logical endpoint of an industrial mindset that views the world as a collection of parts to be managed and extracted. It is a system that prizes ‘high-tech’ laboratory-derived solutions while dismantling complex, self-sustaining biological systems that have supported human life…

[ad_1] Team Trump Wisely Pushing for Illegals To Go Home Voluntarily [ad_2] Source link