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The US Empire is foaming at the mouth, besieged on all sides by the consequences of its own glut. As it foams, it miscalculates in the way that all empires eventually miscalculate: It pushes its luck. It overplays its hand. It demands too much. — Read on abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/16/white-supremacist-massacres-ten-people-in-buffalo-ny/

The new musical is written by David Foster, Susan Birkenhead, and Bob Martin. — Read on http://www.theatermania.com/chicago-theater/news/boop-the-betty-boop-musical-sets-pre-broadway-run_94863.html

A staple of the Ferguson rebellion, Josh Williams was sentenced to 8 years in prison for attempting to a light fire near a Quick Trip gas station, during a protest against the killing of Black 18-year old Antonio Martin by police in Berkeley, Missouri on Christmas Eve 2014. — Read on prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/joshua-josh-williams

Panafricaniste convaincu, le Premier ministre, Me Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela, est sans équivoque : le Burkina Faso, le Mali et la Guinée, doivent impérativement aller vers le fédéralisme. — Read on burkina24.com/2023/02/10/projet-de-federation-burkina-mali-guinee-le-chef-du-gouvernement-invite-les-ministres-en-charge-des-affaires-etrangeres-a-se-mettre-au-travail/

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now — Read on seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerfulContinue reading “Seizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational Institute”

Adding to a long history of foreign conferences on “fixing Haiti” with catastrophic consequences, the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti (OIH) took place near my hometown on January 31-February 1, 2003. At the invitation of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s Liberals, the event brought together officials from the United States, France, and the Organization of American States to discussContinue reading “Below Zero in Haiti, 20 Years into The Ottawa Initiative – Jafrikayiti”

The final stage of a complex trial over the payment of treaty annuities in northern Ontario kicked off Monday with one group of plaintiffs pursuing negotiations and the other in court. — Read on http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/robinson-treaties-third-stage-trial-1.6731274