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If the teaser provided by #jacobin is any indication, then this is something organizers in the United States definitely want to make time to read.
jacobin.com/2025/04/melenchon-virtue-universalism-humanity-creolization
Also, Re: tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/114397702094429061
Während #Meloni und Co. der zivilen #Seenotrettung in #Italien mit militärischer Spionagesoftware zu Leibe rücken, retten sie kriminelle Ausländer per Regierungsflieger vor dem #IStGH. #Malta lässt derweil Flüchtende trotz klarer Aufforderung der UN auf einer Bohrinsel sitzen.
Seit der Drucklegung meines Buches sind rund ums #Mittelmeer schon wieder einige komplett irre Geschichten passiert. Ich hab sie in einem Update für #Jacobin.de zusammengefasst: https://jacobin.de/artikel/sommer-der-migration-seenotrettung
#Jacobin: "#JeffBezos has finally dropped the pretense. The world’s third-richest man has decreed that the #WashingtonPost, which he purchased back in 2013, will no longer publish opinions that challenge free market economics. With a casual diktat that would make William Randolph Hearst blush, #Bezos has laid bare what critics have long suspected: when #billionaires buy #newspapers, they aren’t just after profitable investments — they’re buying ideological bodyguards."
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bezos-washington-post-free-market
from #WorldOutlook #Jacobin
Rashid Khalidi on U.S. Support to #Israel, #PalestinianNationalMovement (II)
By world-outlook.com on October 19, 2024
In this interview, #RashidKhalidi, the #Palestinian American author of "The Hundred Years' War on #Palestine," discusses two key points — among other important ideas. The first concerns the U.S. role in enabling Israel’s brutal war in the region that has now spread far beyond the #Gaza Strip. The second is about the state of the Palestinian national movement.
[part 2 of an interview originally published in Jacobin, along with an introduction, photos, and endnotes]
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#politics #MiddleEast #Lebanon
#USA #US #USPolitics #Biden
# …
from #WorldOutlook #Jacobin
Rashid Khalidi on U.S. Support to #Israel, #PalestinianNationalMovement (II)
By world-outlook.com on October 19, 2024
In this interview, #RashidKhalidi, the #Palestinian American author of "The Hundred Years' War on #Palestine," discusses two key points — among other important ideas. The first concerns the U.S. role in enabling Israel’s brutal war in the region that has now spread far beyond the #Gaza Strip. The second is about the state of the Palestinian national movement.
[part 2 of an interview originally published in Jacobin, along with an introduction, photos, and endnotes]
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#politics #MiddleEast #Lebanon
#USA #US #USPolitics #Biden
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
The modern day empire is not hides behind the guise of a defensive alliance. Excellent article and video from #Jacobin on how to prevent WWIII: https://youtu.be/FfSS-dzucsU?si=GKxlvpxIM2qJGOFS
"Does a concentration camp guard has the right to 'self-defense'?" was the original title of this article by Norman #Finkelstein and Jamie Stern-Weiner, published 5 years ago in #jacobin
Almost a necessary reading regarding the ongoing massacre in #gaza
https://jacobin.com/2018/07/gaza-protests-israel-occupation-norman-finkelstein
Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.
To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about this initiative. In it, Joe Barrett tells the stories of a municipal grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which last year was $123,000 in the red and a municipal grocery store in St Paul, Kansas, which is profitable and has been in operation for sixteen years.
Similar municipal grocery stores exist elsewhere in the country, including in Baldwin, Florida, which was profiled in the Washington Post four years ago. In each case, a generally conservative rural municipality opens up a grocery store because nobody else would and because they feared that not having a …
Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.
To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about this initiative. In it, Joe Barrett tells the stories of a municipal grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which last year was $123,000 in the red and a municipal grocery store in St Paul, Kansas, which is profitable and has been in operation for sixteen years.
Similar municipal grocery stores exist elsewhere in the country, including in Baldwin, Florida, which was profiled in the Washington Post four years ago. In each case, a generally conservative rural municipality opens up a grocery store because nobody else would and because they feared that not having a grocery store could result in a death spiral of depopulation.
#USPol #Politics #News #Jacobin #Chicago #MunicipalGrocery
#BrandonJohnson #Socialism
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/chicago-municipal-grocery-store-publicly-state-owned/
#PatrickMcHenry, now acting as US House speaker, has shown strong ties to financial industries, collecting 90% of campaign funds from sectors like banking and crypto. Serving as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, he's pushed against regulations limiting these industries. Critics argue his policies weaken investor protections while benefiting from significant industry donations.
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/house-speaker-patrick-mchenry-lobbyists-finance-real-estate-donors
A Montana Judge Just Ruled the State’s Constitution Bans New Fossil Fuel Plants
In Montana, young residents just won a lawsuit charging that construction of a new gas power plant was barred by the state constitution. But “pro-climate” President Joe Biden is arguing fiercely against letting the US Supreme Court hear a similar case.
The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural gas–fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it would have released an estimated twenty-three million tons of planet-roasting carbon dioxide, and that, ruled the judge, was incompatible with a “clean and healthful environment” in Montana or, for that matter, anywhere else.
A Montana Judge Just Ruled the State’s Constitution Bans New Fossil Fuel Plants
In Montana, young residents just won a lawsuit charging that construction of a new gas power plant was barred by the state constitution. But “pro-climate” President Joe Biden is arguing fiercely against letting the US Supreme Court hear a similar case.
The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural gas–fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it would have released an estimated twenty-three million tons of planet-roasting carbon dioxide, and that, ruled the judge, was incompatible with a “clean and healthful environment” in Montana or, for that matter, anywhere else.
#USPol #Politics #Montana #News #ClimateChange #GreenEnergy #RenewableEnergy #GoGreen #Environmentalism #JoeBiden #Biden #Jacobin #Ecosocialism
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And they broadened their reach by marrying their existing conspiratorial beliefs with Qanon, which made their numbers surge:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fringe-groups-are-using-qanon-to-amplify-their-wild-messages
Today, the far right is surging around Europe, with the rot spreading from Hungary and Poland to Italy and France. In an interview with *#Jacobin*'s #DavidBroder, #TommasoSpeccher a researcher based in Berlin, explores the failure of Germany's storied memory:
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/germany-nazism-holocaust-federal-republic-memory-culture/
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Writing for #Jacobin, #AlexNPress profiles Conover and interviews him about the strike, under the *excellent* headline, "Adam Pickets Everything." Conover is characteristically funny, smart, and incisive - do read:
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/adam-conover-wga-strike
Of course, not everyone in Hollywood is striking. In late June, the #DGA accepted a studio deal with an anemic 41% vote turnout:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773926/dga-amptp-new-deal-strike
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“Don’t Look Up” director Adam McKay writes in #Jacobin about #climate change and the warped incentives that should scare the crap out of all of us.
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/adam-mckay-climate-change-emergency/
