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Not one day in prison! No fine in Uhuru 3 sentencing victory!
The following statement was posted on the Hands Off Uhuru website on Dec. 17. 2024;Workers World has supported the movement to free the Uhuru 3. African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse where sentencing hearing took place, Dec. 16, 2024. Credit: Fight Back News African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse…
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Suitcases of Qatari Cash: Unpacking Israel’s Role in ‘Funding Hamas’
You might have heard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas in Gaza… but is there more to the story? Some argue that Netanyahu has an ‘alliance’ or at least an interdependency with Hamas to serve his own goals, but is that really true? In the first two parts of this…
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As in India, US Farmers Caught in Crushing Agribusiness Debt Trap Turn to Suicide in Spiking Numbers
MINNEAPOLIS – Over a decade ago, a disturbing trend among farmers in India captured headlines, as suicides among Indian farmers began to spiral out of control. Many of those farmers were indebted to giant agribusiness corporations like Monsanto, which – after gaining access to India’s seed sector in 1998 – enticed poor farmers to buy…
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How America’s Fifth Column Will Destroy Russia
From the standpoint of Russia’s dilemma, this is an important column. Putin’s partial impotence via-a-vis Washington is due to the grip that neoliberal economics exercises over the Russian government. Putin cannot break with the West, because he believes that Russian economic development is dependent on Russia’s integration within the Western economy. That is what neoliberal…
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Not one day in prison! No fine in Uhuru 3 sentencing victory!
The following statement was posted on the Hands Off Uhuru website on Dec. 17. 2024;Workers World has supported the movement to free the Uhuru 3. African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse where sentencing hearing took place, Dec. 16, 2024. Credit: Fight Back News African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela outside courthouse…
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Suitcases of Qatari Cash: Unpacking Israel’s Role in ‘Funding Hamas’
You might have heard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas in Gaza… but is there more to the story? Some argue that Netanyahu has an ‘alliance’ or at least an interdependency with Hamas to serve his own goals, but is that really true? In the first two parts of this…
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AI: The machine intelligence of imperialism
Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” (workers.org/2024/04/78192/) Part 2 discussed “Labor under surveillance.” (workers.org/2024/05/78468/) Part 3 discussed “The media of digital capital.” (workers.org/2024/10/81336/) This part takes up a discussion of how algorithmic technologies are used in the context of imperialist exploitation and military operations. Graphic: Zoran Svilar: fromprinttopixel.ch/en/the-power-of-images/digital-colonialism In a digital landscape marked by…
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Blame billionaires, not migrants – Keep New York a sanctuary city
Home » Human needs before profits » Blame billionaires, not migrants – Keep New York a sanctuary city Solidarity with migrants demonstration, New York City, Dec. 18, 2024. By Hugo East New York City — Supporters of immigrant rights formed a picket line in front of New York City Hall Dec. 18, International Migrants Day,…