October 11, 2017
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Maria's 'Other' Victims: Puerto Rican Bondholders By Eoin Higgins
President Donald Trump, in what appeared to be an uncharacteristic display of empathy, said that the island’s $72 billion debt would have to be forgiven. Though the president’s statement was quickly walked back by administration officials, the idea of forgiving Puerto Rico’s debt is gaining political strength. In response to that push for debt forgiveness,… Continue reading
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New Global Review Shows Five-Fold Increase in Pest Resistance to GM Crops
A new global assessment, released Tuesday by the University of Arizona, helps scientists explain why cases of pest resistance to genetically modified crops increased by more than fivefold in the past decade, yet some pests remain suppressed. Continue reading
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Catalan Premier Affirms Right To Independence From Spain, But Delays Formal Declaration By Alex Lantier
Speaking Tuesday evening before the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, regional premier Carles Puigdemont announced that Catalonia would secede from Spain, in line with the result of the October 1 Catalan independence referendum. However, he put off a formal declaration of independence for now and requested negotiations with the central government in Madrid. The Popular Party… Continue reading
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Don’t Cry for Me, Catalonia By S. Artesian
Either the secessionist wave mobilizing hundreds of thousands in Catalonia is being generated by the conflicts and antagonisms intrinsic to capitalism in general as expressed in the particular conflicts and antagonisms embedded in the capitalist relations of Catalonia with the rest of Spain, or…or nothing, because then the critique of capital, and historical materialism have… Continue reading
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Despite Syrian Government’s Attempts to Unify Country US-backed Kurdish SDF Persist with Land Theft By Sarah Abed
The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West’s persistent… Continue reading
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