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July 2021

Saturday, July 31:

The global apocalypse that the imperialists are engineering

A Charter School's Bait and Switch

24 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death in Egypt

Retrospective on Balanced Voting (5 comments)

Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On Our Door (9 comments)

Friday, July 30:

Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui was brutally murdered by Taliban

The freedomless, heavily surveilled hellscape the U.S. plans to bring to its own people (1 comments)

Hedges: The Price of Conscience (2 comments)

COVID is Resurging. So is Trumpian Politics.. (5 comments)

Why Aren't Biden and the Democrats Going All Out for Democracy? (9 comments)

"The Clash of Two Americas, the Unfinished Symphony", a book by Matthew Ehret (5 comments)

Why is Clinical Reversal of Heart Disease Damage Being Ignored? (3 comments)

You Have No Choice: The Forced Sterilization of Romani Women (1 comments)

Not So Fast: Why the Enlightenment is Still a Foundation for Working-Class Liberation (3 comments)

Thursday, July 29:

Sunday Prayer Vigil Set for Haiti (1 comments)

David Donnell: Masks and Mask Mandates (28 comments)

In Demchok, China erects tents on 'Indian side' amid Ladakh standoff

The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy (11 comments)

No, Alberta, Don't Be Sad. We Love You. Really.

William Astore Is Talking About Lessening the Damage, Not Actual Defense

American Exceptionalism: Fascism Arrives in Slow Motion (1 comments)

On the stupidity of preparing to wage war with China (17 comments)

China pledges support for Taliban in Afghanistan, demands end to ETIM ties

Air defence of the Baltic States is in bad condition (1 comments)

Wednesday, July 28:

Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes

Tom's Tidbits- Pigs... In... SPAAAAACE! (1 comments)

Yes, the Constitution was "Pro-Slavery"

Out Of Guantanamo Too

Sonnet: Twenty Years of Schoolin' and They Put You On the Day Shift*

Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW (2 comments)

Whistleblower Summit, Panel, and Documentary

The Taliban grab more ground as 46 Afghan soldiers take refuge in Pakistan

Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine (1 comments)

For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More (3 comments)

Tuesday, July 27:

Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guanta'namo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights (2 comments)

Hawley's "Love America Act" Is All About Hate

Joe Biden's Relapse into Hallucinations About GOP Leaders (1 comments)

Mercenaries terrorize Minneapolis as colonialism intensifies repression & counterinsurgency

American Muslim group calls on Biden to support democracy in Tunisia

Sonnet: Something Happened During the Terry O'Reilly Brawl

No Kids, No Vote? (1 comments)

Monday, July 26:

Limiting the Power of the President

Examining the consequences of the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome (1 comments)

Deism/Freethinker Remembrance Day - July 26th (4 comments)

America is Suffering from an Epidemic of Political Bullying (39 comments)

FBI Using the Same Fear Tactic From the First War on Terror: Orchestrating its Own Terrorism Plots (8 comments)

After the Apocalypse - America's Role in a World Transformed. (1 comments)

French parliament approves bill to tighten control of mosques

Updated: Debt No More! How Biden can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money (30 comments)

Don't Expand Draft Registration. End It. (17 comments)

Sunday, July 25:

Floods in Europe, China, India and Turkey

Xi Jinping's visit to Tibet sends strong message to India

Who Will You Ask Black Americans To Vote For, Democrats? (4 comments)

Sonnet: Spooks and Spies and Narrative Lies

Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest JU (1 comments)

As Roe Dies, How Many "Pro-Life" Cultists Will Celebrate the Death Penalty While Refusing Masks and Vaccinations?

Saturday, July 24:

U.S. dollar--and Washington's military primacy--lurch closer towards collapse (2 comments)

Los Angeles Sheriff Refuses To Do His Job

Why cash is a public good and has a high social value (2 comments)

Love Triangle Exposed: Democrats-Mueller-NY Times (4 comments)

Trump's Supreme Court Crime Spree (1 comments)

Taking on the ruling elite (9 comments)

Right of conquest - a racist doctrine (2 comments)

No Whodunit Here: The Cause of Inflation is Not a Mystery (11 comments)

Friday, July 23:

China is Buying American Farmland (17 comments)

An Internationalism for the Future

Rights Groups Urge Ben & Jerry's to End All Sales in 'Apartheid Israel' (2 comments)

Worker Power

Biden's First Six Months (1 comments)

The 62 Years War Against Cuba (5 comments)

Thursday, July 22:

Abolishing the U.S. & all other settler states is the essential task of socialists

"Syria has been effectively balkanized between America, Isis, the Kurds, and Turkey"

Lithuanian MOD conceals crimes in the army

Biden Promised Diplomacy, But He's Overseeing Military Buildup Against China (1 comments)

The biggest win for the working class in generations is within reach

Why Conservatives Loathe any Talk of Critical Race Theory

Ray McGovern: Put Russiagate Out of its Misery (3 comments)

Imagine the Outcry If Cuba Acted Like U.S. Right Wing Clients in Colombia or Saudi Arabia! (2 comments)

Congress-Pentagon Flap Over Critical Race Theory: A Job for Critical War Theory

Wednesday, July 21:

Virtual Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, Panel to Discuss Latest Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Law

Lithuania needs Turkey's help

Leaving Afghanistan, Finally (2 comments)

How Much Free Speech Can We Afford As People Die from Covid-19? (14 comments)

Der Fuhrer Furor: I Buried Pall

Medicare For All March This Saturday (4 comments)

"No ice cream for you" - Ben & Jerry's ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank (2 comments)

Can America Go from Empire to "Good Neighbor?"

It's Time to Take Away Government's Social Media Privileges (1 comments)

Tale of two pandemics: Follow the science and do not forget one at the cost of the other

QAnon, American fascism, & the settler fears of anti-colonial revolution

Putin is de facto tsar of Russia: church may proclaim him son of god

Peru Finally Gets its First Socialist President, Pedro Castillo

Congressional Proxy Voting? No. Do the Job or Quit the Job. (1 comments)

Who's Afraid of Nina Turner?

Tuesday, July 20:

India targets Pakistan PM Imran's phone for surveillance by using Israeli spyware

Human Progress

The Fake Heroism of Space Billionaires

The GOP Delivers More Crime to America (2 comments)

War Powers Reform Bill Far Better Than Feared

If Biden Wants to "Stand With the Cuban People," He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade (1 comments)

Israel: Racist, Violent policing is at the heart of apartheid (3 comments)

Monday, July 19:

The Anti-Family Party (1 comments)

ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Why the Crumbling Computer Conspiracy Case Is So Vital to the US

SCOTUS Fails to Protect U.S. Constitution (3 comments)

Sonnet: The Gods of Horror Among Us

Sunday, July 18:

Russia ready to face Turkey in Idlib conflict

Fierce Debate Continues Over Issues Related to Covid-19 (182 comments)

Did Netanyahu Try to get Trump to Wag the Dog with Strike on Iran after Biden Won? (16 comments)

LAUSD School Board Member To Seek Reelection

So What Does It Take? (2 comments)

Major Modi Programs Meet Success ... and Failure

"They do not forgive us": imperialists unleash desperate warfare against Latin America (2 comments)

SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant: Mandatory Masking Needed (18 comments)

The Charter School Industry Buys Itself A Governor

Handmaid Danger Fading (1 comments)

Crucial intra-Afghan talks resumes in Qatar after hiatus

The Guardian: Regurgitating the Russia-Gate Canard (3 comments)

The tipping points are arriving: A Nighttime Walk without Bugs or Bats (12 comments)

Saturday, July 17:

Divided We Stand: Eleven Regional Rivalries from Mountain People to the Swamps of Dixie (4 comments)

Shaken by Trump's "Fuhrer Moment," Gen. Milley had to Blockade D.C. on Inauguration Day to "Keep the Nazis Out" (1 comments)

The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas (1 comments)

When Does the Greed Stop? (2 comments)

Gaza: a vision of what capital & empire intend to do to the rest of the world

Trumpism as a Destructive Cult (4 comments)

The Biden Administration is All Wet When it Says You Can't Be (1 comments)

DeSantis Hoisted on a Right-Wing Petard (30 comments)

Friday, July 16:

Report card: Six months into Biden's presidency (6 comments)

Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan (3 comments)

Prosecution of Military Sex Assaults Needs to Change; Delay, Delay, Delay Must Stop

Sonnet: A Woof Woof, Woof Woof Poem

Inappropriate Music Culture Presaged Matt Gaetz Allegations

Fascist Funder William Regnery Dead; A Grave to Piss On (4 comments)

The Multiracial Democracy Ulysses Grant Was Willing to Die For is in Danger

Thursday, July 15:

Using Japan in Pursuit of World Order

There IS Something New Under the Sun That Can Destroy Us (3 comments)

Something Is Not Right (16 comments)

China, India Foreign Ministers' talks on border dispute fail

A Biden-Putin World Ransomware Summit--In Both Countries' and World's Interest

"We're gonna be in Afghanistan for the next half-century": our longest war is just getting started

Nancy and Paul Pelosi Making Millions in Stock Trades in Companies She Actively Regulates (3 comments)

We Need the "Whole-of-Government" Climate Fight That Biden Promised (1 comments)

Putin and His Spy Chiefs Use Deranged Trump to Destabilize America (95 comments)

Explosion kills 9 Chinese on way to China-invested dam project in Pakistan

Nuclear Experimentation: Year 76

"Don't Fauci My Florida" (14 comments)

Note to Joe: Try These Two Easy Tricks to Promote Freedom in Cuba (5 comments)

Five Reasons to Ban Bitcoins (10 comments)

Fascism is the new GOP (8 comments)

Bernie Sanders Has Bonded with President Biden. Is That Good? (1 comments)

Wednesday, July 14:

"I do think that Russia is ready to face Turkey, and I think that the Syrian army and Russian forces will prevail"

abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Kidnaping plot of an Iranian Journalist (26 comments)

Trump's American Christian Nation Party (ACNP)???" (1 comments)

The Espionage Act & Julian Assange -- 6: Assange in the Dock

The GOP's Shameless Plot Against Democracy

Looking at some of the volatile situations in the world today

Putin's Russia's new national security strategy: barking and threatening

Tuesday, July 13:

The War Against Us (2 comments)

Freedom Is Not Free (That's Why You Don't Have Any) (13 comments)

How Not to Prevent U.S. Military Suicides

Death is Their Election Strategy (1 comments)

Washington's global mercenary death squads foreshadow what the U.S. will do to its own people (1 comments)

What are the results of meeting between Biden and Putin?

Not unifying behind socialist states only helps U.S. imperialism's regime change efforts

Dear Mr. President, Come take a walk with me. Let's pretend we're just two people and, You're not better than me. (7 comments)

No, the Air Force is Not "60% Responsible" for Devin Kelley's Crimes (1 comments)

Critical Race Theory and why the right hates it... (23 comments)

Monday, July 12:

China to serve as 'mediator' for regional security on Afghan issue (2 comments)

Are we hungry for change for genuinely transforming food systems?

Biden's Srebrenica Moment (1 comments)

U.S. empire stokes Uyghur terrorism in Afghanistan with eye on fomenting new violence in Xinjiang

Hedges: Bless the Traitors (2 comments)

COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising. Vaccinatcould fix that, but it's hit a wall (8 comments)

Time to Trigger the Nuclear Option (2 comments)

America's Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq - and Iran? (3 comments)

The Company You Keep! (1 comments)

Secrets of Snowden's Memoirs: Part 2: Verax versus Mendax (5 comments)

Internet Censorship: The Real Monopoly Threat (2 comments)

Do White Senate Democrats Get It? (3 comments)

The Door Hits Los Angeles School Superintendent On The Way Out (1 comments)

'Try Calling Them': Challenge Government's Autocratic Incommunicados (3 comments)

Sunday, July 11:

Manufactured destabilization: the desperate survival mechanism of a dying U.S. empire (3 comments)

Data, not arms, the key driver in emerging US-China cold war

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) on Reining In Big Tech and Why Many House Members Refuse

Gasoline and Coal's Climate Freak Show: Fire-nado, 1 Billion Dead Marine Animals, and Earth's All-Time Record Heat

Saturday, July 10:

Christianity is Collapsing

Whither India?

India rejects OIC proposal to send team to volatile Kashmir

Buying Democracy in a Good Way

In 18 Months, Republicans Are Very Likely to Control Congress. Being in Denial Makes It Worse (3 comments)

The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas: Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered? (1 comments)

A Cyber-Culprit Other Than Russia? (1 comments)

Taking a short stroll into some infamous US history (1 comments)

Friday, July 9:

Oligarchy: When Brutal Capitalism Becomes More Important than Democracy (1 comments)

Trump to the Barricades (1 comments)

Global Climate Change (2 comments)

The decline of Washington's global hegemony & the looming anti-colonial revolt within U.S. borders

Governments must adopt a strong political declaration that the global crisis mandates

Starting a New Discussion (1 comments)

Hands Off Haiti! (11 comments)

Thursday, July 8:

Putin's ally is a country that doesn't want to be second

It's a Crime to Trust God (2 comments)

Catholic Exorcist Inadvertently Helps Deists and All Freethinkers! (59 comments)

Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power (2 comments)

Biden Defends Ending a War He's Not Fully Ending

Lee Camp: America's Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People (4 comments)

Carlos Lazo: The Cuban American Leading the Charge to Transform U.S.-Cuba Policy

Wednesday, July 7:

US trying to replace the forever Afghan war with Syria-like hybrid war

The Butcher of Baghdad: Donald Rumsfeld, dead at 88

Out of Afghanistan and the Most Convenient Lie

The World Speeds Up -- and We Slow Down

Free Press Advocates Call on Biden to Dismiss Trump's Appeal Against Assange (1 comments)

The GOP's "Flood The Zone With Sh*t" Race Strategy

Abandon Afghanistan and Don't Look Back (1 comments)

The U.S. settler-colonial state is doomed for the same reason Israel is doomed

Talibans capture several districts from fleeing Afghan troops

On growing up with real presidents (4 comments)

Global Warming and the Danger to Coastal Communities (1 comments)

How The Donald Lost His Teflon (2 comments)

Tuesday, July 6:

After global warming collapses the U.S. power grid, the class war will reach a chaotic new stage (1 comments)

The elusive silver bullet: from self-regulation to international norms

Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison

The Republo-Fascists are on the March; Who Should We Attack? The Dems. of course (3 comments)

UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence (1 comments)

What's the point of being first, if you'll end up last

New HSBC evidence clearly shows Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's 2.5-year, US-forced detention in Canada has been a geopolitica (12 comments)

Gravel Can Still Make a Mountain (1 comments)

Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring deadly bomb blast in Lahore

The Way Between

An Ugly War Among Leftist YouTubers Shows Two Common, Toxic Pathologies Plaguing U.S. Politics (10 comments)

If Republicans Go Full Fascist the Military Will Determine the Outcome (34 comments)

Monday, July 5:

A Case Study In White Savior Complex

The Perfect Voting System (2 comments)

Real Patriotism on this July 4th (2 comments)

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes (1 comments)

July 4th's Terrible Origins

It's Saigon in Afghanistan (2 comments)

Sunday, July 4:

Needed on July 4: μετανοίa (1 comments)

When Will Politicians Start Caring about People's Actual Problems? (2 comments)

Bring Back the Poll Tax!

Budget of hope in Pakistan

China's economic weakening of Washington is bringing revolution in the U.S. far closer

On USA Birthday, Americans Must CHOOSE! (4 comments)

France begins judicial probe into kickbacks in Rafale jets deal with India

Public Awareness of Deadly Racist History versus Celebratory Feelings for Birth of Slave Owners USA (1 comments)

Key Witness Admits Lying for U.S. Phony Case Against Julian Assange (27 comments)

Saturday, July 3:

An Athletic School Without a Gym

Millennials and Gen Z (2 comments)

Conspiracy: Theory and Practice (44 comments)

Supreme Court Drives a Stake Through the Heart of the Voting Rights Act (1 comments)

Julian Assange's Father and Brother on the Public and Personal Urgency of His Case (3 comments)

Friday, July 2:

Imperial decline, settler-colonial delusions, & the march towards nuclear war

Greek Cyprus president apologizes for golden-passport scheme

German Parliamentarians Want Merkel to Urge Biden to Free Assange (11 comments)

FDA Petitioned to Halt Approval of COVID Vaccines (4 comments)

As Republicans Stall Election Reform in the U.S. Senate, Democracy Comes Under Greater Strain (1 comments)

Why Your Chipotle Burrito Costs More

The Democracy vs. Freedom Dispute (1 comments)

As we celebrate independence, what still unites us? (1 comments)

Facebook Gives the Most Dangerous Extremists a Free Pass (8 comments)

Warning: Danger Ahead (21 comments)

Archaic Marijuana Witch Hunt Grounds BLACK Gold Medal Favorite Olympian Sha'Carri Richardson (13 comments)

Donald Trump - Super (Stable) Genius! (4 comments)

Biden's Infrastructure Strategy (1 comments)

Thursday, July 1:

China Shuts Down Hong Kong Newspaper Apple Daily (1 comments)

The Bill Cosby Decision Was Not About Him or His Crimes (3 comments)

The System Isn't There To Protect Us From Criminals, It's To Protect Criminals From Us (5 comments)

Cosby Got Trump's Sweetheart Deal (1 comments)

"Merciless War Criminal" and Ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dead at 88 (7 comments)

Chris Hedges Speaks on "American Sadism" (1 comments)

A Love Affair Ends Badly: Leaving Toyota (3 comments)

The Empire Strikes Back at the Left in Buffalo and Cleveland (6 comments)

What's in a Name, Part III (1 comments)

Water in All the Wrong Places (11 comments)

Winning the Image Battle Against the People's Republic of China

Ranked Choice Voting Isn't the Problem in New York City's Mayoral Election (30 comments)

 

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