June 23, 2022
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Pearl Prescod: A black life lived large
The IRR is thrilled to launch this week a new Black history project on the life of Caribbean-British actor, singer and civil rights campaigner Pearl Prescod. Pearl Prescod: a Black life lived large, featured in today’s guardian online, records the achievements of the first Black female player at the National Theatre. At the same time, it tells… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 June 2022
Thursday, 23 June 2022 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and Continue reading
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We Need to Build the Architecture of Our Future: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 23 June 2022 — The Tricontinental Diego Rivera (Mexico), Frozen Assets, 1931. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In April 2022, the United Nations established the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance. This group is tracking the three major crises of food inflation, fuel inflation, and financial distress. Continue reading
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The future of work 2 – working long and hard
I want to consider the impact of work on people’s lives and health and how that will pan out over the next few decades. Marx once said “The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint,… Continue reading
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The Neocon’s Dream – Decolonize Russia, Re-colonize China
Wednesday, 22 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama On March 26 U.S. President Joe Biden called for regime change in Russia: Speaking in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, President Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” The White House immediately rushed to talk back that call for regime change Continue reading
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Nuclear terrorist, Genocidally Racist and International Law-violating Apartheid Israel among World Leaders for Killing Kids
Apartheid Israel in its illegal, war criminal and 55-year occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory is among world leaders in “children killed per year per million of total territory population” with a value of 25.8 as compared to 75.7 (Honduras), 53.6 (Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo), 7.6 (the World), and 2.6 (Kashmir, India). Continue reading
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If the media can probe Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, why not the murder of other Palestinians?
An Israeli sniper shot the Al-Jazeera journalist, according to four US news organisations. But the only investigation the Biden administration will heed is an Israeli one Continue reading
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