June 17, 2021
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NATO Proclamation at Annual Summit Threatens the Peace
The NATO proclamation—promoted at its annual summit this week—that a cyber attack could trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty heightens the risk of military confrontation with Russia or China. Continue reading
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Takeaways from Biden-Putin summit
On the diplomatic stage, there is nothing to beat Russian-American summits in sheer theatrics. When the leaders of the two most powerful nuclear powers on earth sit face to face, anything can happen. Continue reading
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Institute of Race Relations 17 June 2021: Abolition – a roadmap to the future?
17 June 2021 — — Origin: Institute of Race Relations This week we draw attention to a new article by Liz Fekete, Looking Back to Look Forward: imagining a world without state violence, published by the Stuart Hall Foundation as part of their Imagined Futures series. At a time when social movements are coming together in Continue reading
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Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that burning fossil fuels threatens millions of Life forms and could be laying the foundation for the extermination of Humanity. But what about “alternative” energy? As progressives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those rejecting fossil fuels and nuclear… Continue reading
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Resisting Water Privatization in Europe: Key Reasons for Success
In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010. Continue reading
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The Kisan [Farmers’] Commune in India: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2021)
17 June 2021 — Tricontinental Women farmers from Punjab and Haryana protest at the Tikri border in Delhi, 24 January 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states. Continue reading
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Profits call the tune
I have argued in many posts that ‘profits call the tune’ in capitalist accumulation. What I mean by that is that any change in business profits (and profitability) will lead to changes in business investment – and not vice versa over time. Continue reading
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US Marine Corps Rebuilt to Confront China
June 17, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – The US Marine Corps has after nearly a century of integrating tanks into its fighting forces, abandoned armored warfare in favor of missiles and drones to “confront China” in the Indo-Pacific region. Continue reading
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Morning Star – Met Police ‘misrepresented Covid rules’ against protesters
London’s Metropolitan Police have been accused of ‘misrepresenting Covid rules’ after warning that protesting is against the law. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 