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What kind of economy comes after a Socialist revolution?

Going Underground   Michael Albert, author of No Bosses: A Economy For A Better World , discusses the framework for the economy that comes after a Communist or Socialist revolution, why Karl Marx was so vague about what follows a revolution, participatory economics which would see the end of the power of capitalist billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, attempts at revolutionary economics that have happened in the past and their shortcomings and much more. 

Day 974: Julian Assange still in prison

failed evolution   World's number one political prisoner, Julian Assange, still in high security prison for exposing horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   The only thing that stands between the ruthless imperialists and their plans to exterminate Julian Assange are the thousands of people protesting against his extradition to the US. Among them, famous names from the global political, economic, academic, intellectual and arts sectors.   More and more people should join the fight until full drop of charges against Julian Assange and his release.   So, until then, we should make sure that the clear message will reach the power centers of the worst liberal establishment ever: if you commit another big crime by assassinating Julian

New files expose Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment

Documents provided exclusively to The Grayzone detail Canberra’s abandonment of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, and provide shocking details of his prison suffering by Kit Klarenberg Part 4 - Australia’s DFAT denies any role in “progressively severe abuse” of Assange   On May 30th that year, WikiLeaks’ made the shock announcement that Julian had been moved to Belmarsh’s medical ward, expressing “ grave concerns ” about the state of his health. Almost immediately, DFAT’s Global Watch Office fired off an internal email drawing attention to the post. The following day, ​​ UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Nils Melzer proclaimed “ the collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and now! ” The international legal veteran added that, “ in 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution, ” he had “ never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abus

Revealed: Documents show Bill Gates has given $319 million to media outlets

Sifting through over 30,000 grants in the company’s database, MintPress can reveal that the Gates Foundation has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets and ventures, to the tune of at least $319 million. by Alan Macleod    Part 4 - Media Gates keepers That the Gates Foundation is underwriting a significant chunk of our media ecosystem leads to serious problems with objectivity. “ The foundation’s grants to media organizations…raise obvious conflict-of-interest questions: How can reporting be unbiased when a major player holds the purse strings? ” wrote Gates’s local Seattle Times in 2011. This was before the newspaper accepted BMGF money to fund its “education lab” section. Schwab’s research has found that this conflict of interests goes right to the very top: two New York Times columnists had been writing glowingly about the Gates Foundation for years without disclosing that they also work for a group — the Solutions Journalism Network — that, as shown above, has received over $7 mill

Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable

Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance.   by Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal   Part 1   In October 2021, it seemed as though the lockdowns that still paralyzed societies from Australia to New Zealand and Singapore were coming to an end, as these countries threw in the “Zero-COVID” towel following a year and a half of rolling restrictions and closures. But with COVID-19 cases rising in Europe, several countries are implementing lockdowns all over again, often with clearly punitive motivations.   This November, Austria’s government announced that police would enforce a lockdown exclusively against unvaccinated citizens. Following days of massive protests, the policy was extended to everyone, with steep fines and even prison sentences to be imposed on those who refuse to comply, and a compulsory vaccination requirement tacke

The new age of empire: How colonialism and racism still rule the world

Going Underground   Prof. Kehinde Andrews, author of The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule The World , discusses how the Queen and the British royal family are the ‘premier symbol’ of white supremacy, the racist worldview surrounding enlightenment thinking and how it brought genocide and colonialism to the doors of people of colour around the world, the suffering of people of colour being integral to the industrial revolution and the absence of this history from western curriculums, how the same forces of colonialism and racism still dominate the world today and much more.  

War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia

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Pentecostalism: The new form of Christianity sweeping the world

Going Underground   Elle Hardy, author of Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over The World , on the new form of Christianity that has links to the rise of Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump. She discusses the fundamentals of Pentecostalism which she calls ‘Born Again+’ and what makes it differ from the more traditional branches of Christianity such as Catholicism and Protestantism, why the religion is growing rapidly across the world and why it has a strong appeal, its origins in the dirty wars of the 1970s that the United States was involved in in Latin America and much more.

No, North Korea didn't execute Squid Game fan - It's CIA-backed fake news

Moderate Rebels   Major media outlets falsely claimed North Korea killed someone for watching Squid Game. This is fake news. The "source" for this bogus rumor is Radio Free Asia (RFA), a propaganda outlet created by the CIA to spread disinformation against US Official Enemies. In reality, DPRK media praised Squid Game as a critique of South Korean capitalism.

The truth about Ethiopia -- Unmasking imperialism

Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez   Exposing mainstream media coverage of conflict in Ethiopia. Attempts by Western imperialism to interfere in the internal affairs of the African nation. The history of Ethiopia, including its revolutionary socialist movements. Guest: Yolian Ogbu, an organizing member of the Horn of Africa Pan Africans for Liberation and Solidarity as well as the All African People's Revolutionary Party.