It is correct that the dollar is one of the most powerful instruments of the U.S.. The facts given in this article indicate why it is even more powerful than is widely understood—because it is rooted in the most fundamental features of the monetary system as analysed by Marx. The dollar, therefore, cannot be replaced as the international currency unit without an entire change in the global international situation for which the objective international conditions do not yet exist.

Middle East Eye | UN-backed commission finds multiple instances of Palestinian women being publicly stripped of clothes and veils

Jacobin | The New Popular Front represents the French left’s best chance to block Marine Le Pen’s path. But a purge of candidates in its biggest force, France Insoumise, is troubling its ranks — and highlights the need for more democratic decision-making.

The militant mobilization of dockworkers at Piraeus Port in Greece on Saturday 15 June led to the cancellation of the the arrival of “MSC ALTAIR”, a container ship transporting weaponry and ammunition to Israel.

CounterPunch | Many common snack foods have been expertly engineered to keep us addicted and almost constantly craving more of whatever falsely satisfying manufactured treat is in front of us.

Canadian Dimension | To end homelessness we must reclaim housing from the investor class, produce homes as if they were essential goods rather than investment vehicles, and ensure that all Canadians have the resources necessary to lead dignified, comfortable lives. We can do all these things. We can restore housing affordability and end homelessness. The only thing we lack is political will.

W.T. Whitney | CounterPunch | A trial jury in the U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, determined June 10 that Chiquita Brands, formerly the United Fruit Corporation (UFC), was guilty of financially supporting the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). The paramilitary band has operated since the 1980s in Colombia’s northern banana-producing regions. The decision will be appealed.

The Breach | A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement

The term ‘soft landing’ is somewhat odd. I suppose it means that the world economy has not crashed into the runway, but instead lightly settled down. But really, there has been no landing at all – if we mean by that a slump or contraction in real GDP globally. Anyway, to use another aphorism, the world economy is really ‘a curate’s egg’, an old-fashioned term to described something that is partly bad and partly good, or more exactly something that is obviously and entirely bad, but is described out of politeness as nonetheless having good features that might redeem it.