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Book launch: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left
2020 has seen an amplified struggle against the right and capitalism generally. This volume suggests it is essential to rethink longstanding assumptions, jettison wishful thinking and dated ideas, and recover … Keep reading »
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Systemic Racism in the US and Israel: Analogies and Differences
| August 11, 2020
A most relevant analogy between the US and Israel lies in the principal rationale for the force of their establishment as settler-colonial states. Imperialism, which is the driving force of … Keep reading »
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What Would the NHS Look Like If It Took Health Promotion Seriously?
| August 10, 2020
On Sunday, July 5, 2020, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wished it a happy 72nd birthday. Spitfires flew over in celebration, and buildings were lit up in blue as … Keep reading »
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Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism /w Tanner Mirrlees
| August 9, 2020
On Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism Listen to interview: Your browser does not support the audio element. Created and hosted by Peter Bloom, “Another World is Podable” … Watch video »
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From Unorganized Street Protests to Organizing Unions
| August 7, 2020
The Birth of a New Trade Union Movement in Hong Kong For several months in 2019, the world’s news media was front-paging the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement almost on … Keep reading »
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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19
| August 6, 2020
Gutting the WHO, the only instrument of global cooperation during a pandemic, is a road to disaster. Keep reading »
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Oil and Alberta Politics: Who’s Funding the United Conservative Party?
| August 5, 2020
The case can easily be made that Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) is Canada’s most dangerous political formation. Led by former Harper-era cabinet minister and far-right evangelical Christian Jason Kenney, … Keep reading »
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The Collapse of Healthcare in Peru
| August 4, 2020
On 11 March 2020, Peru declared a 90-day national sanitary emergency. Subsequently, the country announced a total lockdown beginning 16 March, 2020. Despite implementing one of the earliest and strictest … Keep reading »
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A Window of Opportunity for Leftist Politics?
| August 3, 2020
How to Continue In and After the Corona Crisis The current crisis represents a new form of crisis and can certainly be understood as a sign of things to come. … Keep reading »
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Viral Ideas of the Pandemic Moment
| August 2, 2020
“The meanings that COVID-19 takes on in different contexts is a result of the different ways it is being mediated – public health officials, news media, Hollywood, and the new … Watch video »
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Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia
| July 31, 2020
On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second US “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk … Keep reading »
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Crisis and Virus: COVID-19 in Context
| July 30, 2020
“Toward the end of the twentieth century a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all suffered from it” — Samir Amin (2003, 7). It has been over forty … Keep reading »
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