Staying Above Water-Global Migration in the Face of the Climate Crisis

More than 30 years ago leading scientists from NASA began warning policymakers that global temperatures were warming as a result of the emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gasses.

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Manhattan DA Made Google Give Up Information on Everyone in Area as They Hunted for Antifa

When Gavin McInnes—founder of the violent, far-right group The Proud Boys—spoke to a Manhattan Republican club last October, the neighborhood response was less than welcoming. Protesters took to the normally sedate Upper East Side block with chants and spray paint.

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Philippines ships 69 containers of dumped rubbish back to Canada

A cargo ship carrying tonnes of rubbish dumped in the Philippines by Canada more than five years ago, causing a festering diplomatic row, has left the Southeast Asian country, as nations in the region increasingly reject serving as dumpsites for wealthier states.

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Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People's Testimonies Wrong

In 2013, Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified during the trial of George Zimmerman.

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How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right

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White Supremacy Beyond a White Majority

President Trump is trying to maintain white dominance as the nation’s demographics change. The white male racist patriarchy will not be denied. It is having a moment. It has its own president.

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Toronto is segregated by race and income. And the numbers are ugly

In Toronto, the colour of money is mainly white. New demographic charts show a strikingly segregated city, with visible minorities concentrated in low-income neighbourhoods and white residents dominating affluent areas in numbers far higher than their share of the population.

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As Far Right Rises, a Battle Over Security Agencies Grows

VIENNA — As well as anyone, Sybille Geissler knows the threats from Austria’s far-right extremists, who in recent weeks have likened migrants to rats and blithely defended campaign material that evokes Nazi propaganda.

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Decolonization-Decoloniality-Marxism

I am not a marxist-leninist, nor a marxist-leninist-maoist, nor a trotskyist.

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Une organisation criminelle créée de toutes pièces par la police

Des trafiquants pensaient bien avoir mis au point un plan infaillible pour importer illégalement, et à grande échelle, du tabac au Québec, en 2015 et 2016.

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Outsourcing Exploitation to Europe’s Periphery

Yes, the main sources of our study were interviews with workers. As for the difficulty of approaching people, it is very contextual. For instance, more militant or organized workers are clearly more open to such studies.

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CIA Docs Shows UK, France and West Germany Wanted to Bring “Operation Condor” To Europe

SANTIAGO, CHILE — A recently declassified CIA document has revealed that members of the intelligence agencies of France, the United Kingdom and West Germany discussed how to establish “an anti-subversive organization similar to [the CIA’s Operation] Condor” in their own countries.

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La Chine appuie le projet de loi sur la laïcité

Au moment où le projet de loi sur la laïcité de l’État suscite de nombreuses critiques, le gouvernement Legault vient d’obtenir un appui inattendu venant de… la Chine.

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The land of the long white stain

The killer was an Australian. But New Zealand has a long history of white supremacist ideology, writes Scott Hamilton. Content warning: this article contains descriptions of racist behaviour and quotes racist language.

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Jewish-Indigenous inmate alleges prison guard ‘brutality’ in new lawsuit

In his unproven statement of claim, Timothy (Mitch) Nome, 44, who is serving an indeterminate sentence for punching a guard in 2005, makes several allegations against correctional officers he says warrant compensation of more than $1.4 million — half in punitive damages.

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Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era.

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Empire of the periphery

Boris Kagarlitsky is one of Russia’s best known Marxist dissidents and who has written widely on a range of issues. His latest offering is one of his best. It is a history of Russia (and the Soviet Union) that situates it firmly in a wider European and world framework.

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