April 17, 2025
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Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)
In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital, but it will also be home to women and men who are eager to develop China’s new quality productive forces and will be… Continue reading
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Oligarchy and the subversion of democracy–warnings from South Africa
The world has an oligarchy problem. It threatens economic and social stability and accelerates planetary environmental destruction and global warming. While much has been written about Russian oligarchs, it has become clear that the West, particularly the U.S., has a similar and growing oligarchy problem. Thom Hartmann writes how ” The American Oligarchs Have Arrived… Continue reading
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April 14, 2025: Norman Finkelstein on Gaza Genocide
American political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein, though the son of Polish Holocaust survivors, has never been afraid to speak his mind about Israel. At a February 2025 event sponsored by CAIR Florida (the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations), Finkelstein delivered fiery comments about Israel’s in-your-face brand of genocide: Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report April 16, 2025
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 — Black Agenda Report Western Nations Join the United States in Repressing Dissent Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Trump is not unique in the collective west. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, “democratic” states intensify repression and criminalize dissent. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 