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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • Companies in the Global North, like Apple, often outsource production to places like China in the Global South for cheap yet high-skilled labor.AP (PHOTO: KIN CHEUNG)

    Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South Originally published: Science  on August 6, 2024 by Phie Jacobs (more by Science) (Posted Aug 09, 2024) Capitalism, Labor, Political Economy, StrategyGlobalNewswireGlobal South If you live in the United States or another wealthy nation in the Global North, workers in distant countries touch many parts of your daily life. Your…

  • Learn the ideas, history, and legacy of Marxism.

    Cultural Marxism is destroying American society. It has led to the rise of racial tensions, radical feminism, transgender ideology, open borders, fiscal irresponsibility, the unequal protection of the laws, and the loss of our basic rights.  The effects of Marx’s ideas have already been seen in the histories of the Soviet Union and China. Yet…

  • A new Ukrainian (western) nuclear provocation

    12/08/2024 Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Tower ‘Seriously’ Damaged by Ukrainian Drone Attack – Rosatom Aug. 11, 2024 SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) – The attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which resulted in a fire in the area of ​​the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant’s (ZNPP) cooling towers, breached the plant’s physical integrity, creating an unprecedented threat to nuclear…

  • How the EU became a subdepartment of NATO

    Wolfgang Streeck on how the European Commission used the proxy war in Ukraine as a way of surreptitiously achieving further supranational integration at the cost of greater vassalisation Thomas Fazi Aug 09, 2024 Regular readers will know that one of the topics that I keep returning to is the evidently self-abusive behaviour exhibited by European…

  • Remembering Bangladesh’s fallen

    No. 31 | Remembering Bangladesh’s fallen Dear friend, The Bangladeshi people have removed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power after 15 years of rule. The price to remove her was paid in blood by the Bangladeshi people. 439 people were killed by state forces, many shot, between 16 July and 5 August, according to research by…

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