Victories by the left in France and Britain offer powerful examples for U.S. progressives.
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And so we march on blindly, striding robot-like ever closer towards the precipice. For those who care to listen, the point of no return is rapidly approaching. The bellicose US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is hell bent on waging wars and is ever willing to use the terms socialist and communist to justify the continued Continue reading »
Moves by other countries to impose higher tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles could benefit Australians shopping for a new car. Australian car buyers could be the beneficiaries of new tariffs the European Union has slapped on imported electric vehicles from China. The taxes of up to 37.6 percent which provisionally come into effect on July Continue reading »
Before leaving the Labor Party, Senator Fatima Payman made it clear she did not sign up to a Labor Government whose caucus had not itself signed up to the Labor Party platform which required a recognition of the state of Palestine and a two-party solution to the Middle East’s endless malaise. She made that discovery Continue reading »
Real estate firms are touring North American cities marketing homes in Israel — and in illegal West Bank settlements.
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From Mexico to the Mediterranean, rich countries would rather see refugees die than recognize their legal asylum rights.
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Best-selling British writers, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, have very recently published “The Invisible Doctrine”, which is a powerful critique of neoliberalism, and the role they believe it is playing in destroying our human future. The authors say that the neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of our time, but many people do not know much Continue reading »
Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars. We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible. And yet we are Continue reading »
Twice in a fortnight, the president of the Heritage Foundation has declared that America is experiencing its second revolution. The revolution would remain bloodless (because their side is “winning”) “if the left allows it to be.” The two bodies whose acts provoked the announcements are leading Atlas Network partners. They are also spending millions of Continue reading »
Overall it was a spectacular night for Labour, with the party winning a landslide victory.However, in areas with a high proportion of Muslim voters the party performed badly. Labour has lost a handful of former strongholds to independent candidates campaigning on pro-Gaza platforms. In one of the biggest shocks of the night, shadow minister Jonathan Continue reading »