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The sun rises over a picturesque tropical island. We hear birds in the distance and see images of the island’s iconic landscape: A volcano. The beach. And, most importantly, the coconut tree. The camera slowly pans down from the top, and we see our hero, a, at its trunk. He chuckles softly to himself while gazing up.
a: Hello, old friend.
CUT TO a and his best friend, b, strolling along the beach.
a: Today, b. It’s gotta be today.
b: You sure?
a: The weather is perfect. The troops are available. And I swear, b, I just can’t wait any longer.
a grabs b by the shoulders and turns him so that they’re facing each other.
a: It happens today. We are going to find out what’s at the top of that coconut tree.
Narrator (V.O.): This summer…
CUT TO a rallying the rest of the alphabet inside his clubhouse.
In 1955, delegations from just over 30 newly independent countries met in the Indonesian city of Bandung for a conference on peaceful coexistence and international cooperation outside of the ‘two camps’ framework of the Cold War. Bandung was a symbolic location: the city had been abandoned and burnt to the ground by the local population […]
Domestic uses of robotic dogs are fundamentally dehumanizing and would further suggest that they contribute strongly to the militarization of culture and strengthening the power of the surveillance state.
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A polling firm found that Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.
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"These companies fueling the housing affordability crisis are among many corporations across industries that have shamelessly profiteered."
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By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing […]
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The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars.
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- by Aeon Video
- by Richard C Sha & Nathan Harshman
France’s president has proven himself to be a well-oiled weathervane. What he says on Monday may not match what he says or does on Wednesday. But his remarks while visiting China are interesting in several ways.
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- by Carlos Noreña