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Norman Solomon: The Absence — and Presence — of Daniel Ellsberg: A Year After His Death, He’s Still with Us

June 10, 2024 Ben 0

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg died last year, but still has a lot to teach us about the future. Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include […]

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Gig Economy

Why are gig workers paid per task?

June 6, 2024 Ben 0

A Rebel’s Guide to the Gig Economy is a series of podcasts by journalist Ben Wray and researcher Marini Thorne which gets behind the tech jargon and the CEO propaganda to examine the reality of […]

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EU politics

Yanis Varoufakis: The EU Is Becoming a Union for War

June 4, 2024 Ben 0

‘Faced with Israel’s war in Gaza, several European states have slandered and silenced protesters. Ahead of next weekend’s elections to the European Parliament, Yanis Varoufakis tells Jacobin how a militaristic policy is taking over the EU.’ Read […]

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Khadijah Elshayyal, Shereen Fernandez – All Eyes on Rafah’: How a viral campaign exposed an unfolding AI war

June 4, 2024 Ben 0

A critical assessment of the role of AI and digital technologies in the making of and resistance to the Gaza genocide. Khadijah Elshayyal is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, researching digital Muslim […]

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Politico – Von der Leyen needs 361 votes to keep her job. Good luck with that.

June 4, 2024 Ben 0

Everyone appalled by the Gaza genocide should pressure MEPs not to vote to give Ursula Von Der Leyen a second-term as European Commission President. Read the article HERE.

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Evgenii Dainov – Splintered Reality: On Identity Politics as De-Emancipation

June 4, 2024 Ben 0

A call to reboot the whole agenda of emancipation rooted in that struggle against privilege and for fairness that produced the possibility to be civil to all and enemy to none. Evgenii Dainov is Professor of […]

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Finance

A Rebel’s Guide to the Gig Economy – Ep 1: What is the Gig Economy?

June 4, 2024 Ben 0

A Rebel’s Guide to the Gig Economy is a series of podcasts by journalist Ben Wray and researcher Marini Thorne which gets behind the tech jargon and the CEO propaganda to examine the reality of […]

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Jeffrey St. Clair – Who By Fire? The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People

June 3, 2024 Ben 0

The sheer horror of the IDF’s attack on the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Southern Gaza. Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with […]

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Finance

Ann Pettifor – Time to tighten financial seatbelts?

June 3, 2024 Ben 0

There’s reason to believe that the combination of high levels of public and private indebtedness combined with high interest rates could lead to financial trouble in the not-too-distant future. In Ann Pettifor’s Substack. Read the […]

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Geopolitics

Patrick Bond – Boris Kagarlitsky and the Future of the Russian Left

June 3, 2024 Ben 0

The Russian marxist has been willing to speak truth to the powerful in Russia and the West, and that’s incurred the wrath of Putin. Patrick Bond is professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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