Year: 2021

Hiroshima
Around the world

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

August 7, 2021 Stephen Millies
Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]
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Cuba

The good people who will give internet to Cuba

August 7, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
GitHub, the largest free software platform in the world, has published an incomplete list of 60 computer programs, sites and services restricted for Cuba by the unreasonable U.S. blockade, which according to Senator Marco Rubio […]
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LGBTQ+

Olympics without the closet

August 7, 2021 Mileyda Menéndez Dávila
From Juventud Rebelde. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews. New generations are born with a willingness to excel admirably, and it is good that the fire of Olympus burns, without discriminating, in all […]
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In the U.S.

Remembering the great scientific crusader who showed that no biological basis for race exists — Richard Lewontin

August 6, 2021 Prabir Purkayastha
On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was […]
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Environment

Extreme weather events and capitalism: a deadly combination

August 5, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Climate scientists around the world are alarmed by a triple climate-change-related crisis that hit the western U.S. and Canada in June and July.  Normally climatologists are careful in their assessment of extreme weather events, under […]
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Cuba

If the U.S. really cared about freedom in Cuba, it would end its punishing sanctions

August 5, 2021 Helen Yaffe
The violent protests that erupted in Cuba in early July were the first serious social disturbances since the “Maleconazo” of 1994, 27 years ago. Both these periods were characterized by deep economic crises. I was […]
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Indigenous peoples

The ‘Land Back’ Campaign: Oklahoma is only a start

August 4, 2021 Zola Fish
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision that affected 40% of Oklahoma. The court decided to uphold a 19th century treaty made with five Indigenous tribes of Oklahoma: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee and […]
Unemployment
Events

Baltimore: Unemployment Crisis Town Hall Part 2, August 7

August 4, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Urgent! Your Voice Is Needed at Thursday’s Town Hall Assembly Come out & speak out at the Workers Assembly on Maryland’s Unemployment Benefits Crisis When: Thursday, August 7, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Where: War […]
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In the U.S.

Save our homes — by any means necessary

August 3, 2021 Stephen Millies
  Eleven million families face being thrown out of their homes. That’s because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ban on evictions and foreclosures expired July 31.  So at least 30 million people have no […]
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Indigenous peoples

Canada is waging an all-front legal war against Indigenous People

August 3, 2021 Justin Podur
Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential schools, remaining to be unearthed. There can be no denying […]