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Environmental issues spark large-scale protests in Serbia

Ognjen Kojanić
Citizens Movements
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Over the past couple of months, crowds in Serbia have gathered in the streets and sometimes blocked major roads and bridges. The main reason for the protests is opposition to the proposed lithium extraction project in the...

Summit for (capitalism without any) democracy w/ Pat Byrne

Boyan Stanislavski
Anti-corruption
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In the second part (part one — https://bit.ly/3Id00GC) of our discussion with Pat Byrne on the outcomes of the Summit for Democracy, which was held in early January, we discuss how American and other Western...

Elite Cooperation

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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Perhaps ever since C. Wright Mills, we know the elite recognizes one another. It does so from the self-assigned but also lofty position they have been allowed to occupy in society. In general, the elite accepts...

Capitalism and its pathologies

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Economy & finance
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Perhaps ever since ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher Thomas Newcomen applied his newly invented steam engine in 1712 to pump water out of a coal mine to increase profits, we were doomed to live in an economic...

Against the false duo. Eastern European left and change

Kamran Baradaran - Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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"The failure to change the world may not be unrelated to the failure to understand it." - Ray Brassier, Concepts and Objects There's an old Soviet joke from "Radio Yerevan" series popular in the 1950s....

How corporations seek to control civil societies through political “influence” and mon..

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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Unlike other wealthy elites what have, for example, inherited wealth (aristocrats, great-grand-children of 19th and 20th-century robber barons, etc.) and elites that simply stole money (mafia) and obtained it semi-legally (Russian oligarchs), the corporate elite...

The global COVID-19 inequality virus

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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By early June 2021, the world was about one and a half years into the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic had not only a tragic human cost when millions of lives were lost, but it...

The structure of wealth and the Global money-making apparatus

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Analysis
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Some years ago the British Ministry of Defense asked its strategic military institute about conflicts that the world will face in thirty years. The rather surprising result was that the UK military was afraid of...

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

Pawel_Tsch
Bulgaria
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I could explain endlessly how desperate and hopeless the situation with the media in Bulgaria is, and how more and more often I regret that I took up the profession of journalism at all. That...

What exactly is “vaccine nationalism,” and why is it a terrible idea?

Boyan Stanislavski
Commons
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The concept of "vaccine nationalism" is not widely understood. However, it has gained popularity among journalists and researchers who have been following the progress of Covid-19 vaccines. The United States and Israel, the two countries...

Environmental issues spark large-scale protests in Serbia

Summit for (capitalism without any) democracy w/ Pat Byrne

Elite Cooperation

Capitalism and its pathologies

How corporations seek to control civil societies through political “influence” and mon..

The global COVID-19 inequality virus

The structure of wealth and the Global money-making apparatus

The struggle for freedom of speech is either unconditional or meaningless

What exactly is “vaccine nationalism,” and why is it a terrible idea?

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