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Top Websites Secretly Track Your Device Fingerprint
Websites that really want to track you without permission have a way. A new report shows a surprising number of top Internet websites using so-called “device fingerprints” to secretly track visitors—a method that avoids legal limits on the use of cookies and also ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. Continue reading
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The US as Superintendent of Global Capitalism: A Response by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin
We very much appreciate these generous, perceptive and comradely comments on our book and we hope our response will contribute to continued discussions and further research. Continue reading
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Video: Living Under Drones: The Brutal Reality of "Targeted Killing"
This report continues to call into question the U.S. strategy of drone strikes, and presents evidence of profound humanitarian consequences as well as concerns that the strikes actually may have adverse security impacts by fomenting anger against the U.S. Continue reading
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Video: Living Under Drones: The Brutal Reality of “Targeted Killing”
This report continues to call into question the U.S. strategy of drone strikes, and presents evidence of profound humanitarian consequences as well as concerns that the strikes actually may have adverse security impacts by fomenting anger against the U.S. Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Will U.S. Join Latin America in Condemning Ouster of President Fernando Lugo?
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been ousted in what he has described as a parliamentary coup. On Friday, the Paraguayan Senate voted 39-to-4 to impeach Lugo, saying he had failed in his duty to maintain social order following a recent land dispute which resulted in the deaths of six police officers and 11 peasant farmers. Continue reading
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Video: Public Dialogue Situations: The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America
With Leo Panitch, Stephanie Ross, Albert Scharenberg and Bill Fletcher. Moderated by Greg Albo. Sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Centre for Social Justice, and the Socialist Project. Continue reading
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Video: GTWA Day School: Understanding and Fighting Austerity
12 November 2011 — Left Streamed Toronto — 12 November 2011. View on YouTube website What are some of the forces that are driving the current crisis? How is it pushing forward the agenda of business and governments to get working people and our organizations to tighten our belts and accept their calls for austerity? Continue reading
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Elleni Centime Zeleke, “Libya: The Poverty of Analyses”
I am confused by the analyses of the Anglophone left with regard to the social revolts in Libya. The only thing folks seem able to muster is a series of bifurcated abstractions. Thus certain metaphors in the analyses of Libya prevail such as, ‘greed and grievance’, ‘patron and client’, ‘rapacious rule vs innocent population ‘,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 