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Jacobin | Despite facing a uniquely flawed opponent, Kamala Harris is still running neck and neck with Donald Trump. To shore up support among key constituencies, she needs to champion popular pro-worker policies — and stop underwriting Israel’s genocide.
Orinoco Tribune | According to the electoral body, Gustavo Petro exceeded the established spending limits and utilized funding sources that were not declared. Condemning the accusations against him, the Colombian president stated that the charges brought by the CNE are unfounded, that the body is exceeding its legal capacities, and that his constitutional guarantees are not being respected. President Petro also denied the accusations against him, calling the investigation a “lawfare.”
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor | Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.
Stuggle-La Lucha | Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization honored with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-nuclear activism, drew comparisons between the plight of children in Gaza and those impacted by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Disconnect | Paris Marx | Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet
CounterPunch.org | The Nobel Peace Prize has long been tarnished. It was awarded to President Obama before he had spent a year in office with no significant peace initiative on his record, and before he became one of the more aggressive presidents in history in terms of projecting US military power unilaterally. Earlier the award was shared by war criminal Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the head of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (who refused to accept his honor and the money that comes with it), and Teddy Roosevelt, imperialist war monger of an earlier era.
The Maple | Canadian governments have failed to use the tools available to them to build affordable housing and impose substantive rent control measures.
The Breach | A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada
Geopolitical Economy Report | Donald Trump threatened 100% tariffs on countries that drop US dollar, to cut off trade: "I would not allow countries to go off the dollar".
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research | Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians.
US Big Tech corporations are feudal landlords. Silicon Valley monopolies own digital land the global economy is built on, charging higher rents to use privatized infrastructure.
Cybersecurity has become a central element in Venezuela, in a context where computer attacks have not ceased since the presidential elections.
Prabhat Patnaik | The French economist J B Say had believed that there could never be a problem of aggregate demand in any economy, that whatever was produced was ipso facto demanded.
The Breach | For everyone from Donald Trump to the United Nations, Canada’s system is seen as a highly effective way to control and manage migration for the needs of the corporate class
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of 32 Western countries has formally declared its security interests to be global, despite its title and founding mandate as a transatlantic security alliance. The 75th anniversary summit held in Washington (10 July) conceptualised its security as a “360-degree approach,” indispensable and essential.
The Tricontinental | Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
The Tricontinental | This dossier presents a broad overview of the Latin American far right’s political, economic, and cultural programmes and how the absence of a real left political project that secures better living conditions has thrown different fractions of the working class into the grip of neofascism.
The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh by students and the populace last week is a startling outcome of the economic nightmare that many so-called developing economies are experiencing now: stagnant trade, rising debt interest costs and severe austerity being imposed by the IMF and private capital in return for ‘financial aid’.
Orinoco Tribune | Jiménez also said in her report that when analyzing the source of the attacks against platforms in Venezuela, the leading country from which they were launched was the United States.