Hazrat Ali
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Hazrat Ali
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January 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Despite the great variety of its forms, as constituted in history, from the time of so-called Oriental despotism and the early empires to the modern liberal state—cannot be other than Leviathan in imposing its structurally entrenched power on overall societal decision-making. 1
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Thanks to everyone who read and commented on or contacted me about this piece on George Washington and the overriding tyranny of slavery. I appreciate folks who wanted to talk further either to agree or disagree! I heard 2 issues, both of which I discuss in the piece. 1/ time.com/7173647/geor...
Even George Washington Was a Tyrant
We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.
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November 24, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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The point is that at university you're meant to be taught by researchers. It's higher education because it's not just a static body of knowledge; researchers are the people who can teach you to make new knowledge yourself
King's vice-chancellor: "It’s not that we are going broke teaching our students,it's that we are going broke fulfilling our mission of doing research and doing research-led and research-informed teaching."

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Research-led teaching means UK universities ‘going broke’ - Research Professional News
King’s vice-chancellor warns current system “cannot continue” unless research time is protected
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November 23, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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In this week’s newsletter, I discuss why Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport all Afghan convicts amid a sharp rise in executions.

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The Azadi Briefing: Iran To Deport Afghan Prisoners
Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport all Afghan convicts amid a sharp rise in executions in Iran.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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“I realized that all of these abhorrent offenses were done by people I knew from my university class.”

In South Korea, a country with among the highest household internet availability in the world, deepfake sexual abuse has skyrocketed.

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The Gendered Battle Over Digital Sexual Abuse in South Korea
Despite the country’s trailblazing laws, campaigners say more is needed to tackle the causes of a recent spate of pornographic deepfakes aiming to humiliate women and girls
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November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Todd Wolfson and I were interviewed for this great CJR @columjournreview.bsky.social piece on the history and promise of Indymedia as we come up to its 25-year anniversary. I got my start in media activism with the Seattle IMC and the model continues to inspire my work: www.cjr.org/business_of_...
The Promise of IndyMedia
Twenty-five years after its founding, a much-diminished community journalism organization may still offer a model for the future.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says
Poor nations may have to downgrade climate cash demands, ex-UN envoy says
Rich country budgets are stretched amid inflation, Covid and Ukraine war, Mary Robinson tells Cop29 Poor countries may have to compromise on key demands for cash to tackle global heating, a former UN climate envoy has said, as UN talks entered their…
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November 21, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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We also take some time to ground ourselves in the moment and talk about how folks are grappling with the politics of "your body, my choice" having seized the entirety of the federal government. I haven't seen enough discussion of what this massive assault on bodily autonomy feels like.
We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives
“It is a self-replicating authoritarian system that has persisted over the course of generations,” says Talia Lavin.
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November 21, 2024 at 3:29 PM
“The nobles fight, the clergy pray, the people pay”.
November 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines are one way by which Ukraine is compensating for a lack of infantry. Offensive and defensive mining is highly effective, enabling Ukraine to hold terrain. Many are dropped by drones now, as a form of remote mining, some types with self-liquidating timers.
November 20, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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The west arms and funds Arab dictatorships in return for them supporting the Zionist state and ensuring that refugees don't cross to Europe. So Zionism and Europe's fear of foreigners condemn hundreds of millions to tyranny.
November 19, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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On China’s urban question
Last century, Marxists grappled with the ‘agrarian question’: was the peasantry disappearing and, if not, what could be done? Now, after decades of breakneck urbanisation, China is seeing its face from the other side: are the cities filling up as planned and, where not, what to do? By Jane Hayward.
China’s Urban Question: The Other Side of the Agrarian Question | Made in China Journal
From the turn of the twentieth century, Marxist socialist thinkers internationally grappled with what was known as the ‘agrarian question’. Initially, this referred to the problem of whether their res...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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📣 💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📣 💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listeners' questions on the US presidential election and its ramifications. We talked RFK Jr., the role of social media in the election, what to expect from Trump 2.0, the end of Brat summer and much besides:

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Richard Seymour on the US election and Trump redux (part one) | Politics Theory Other
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November 19, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models
HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models
Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permission Publisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors. The company “has reached an…
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November 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Why Kamala Harris couldn’t convince an anti-establishment America | Samuel Hammond
Why Kamala Harris couldn’t convince an anti-establishment America | Samuel Hammond
This election was a referendum on America’s political establishment. And Harris was firmly on the side of the establishment Two weeks have passed, and Kamala Harris’s convincing electoral defeat still has Democrats pointing fingers at who – or what – to…
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November 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate
‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate
Huge rise in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 171 children in year after 7 October Mohammad was 12, a football-mad teenager who spent his days dreaming of a career on the pitch and his last minutes practising ball skills. Ghassan was 14, a…
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November 19, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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I wrote some thoughts towards applying Pashukanis' commodity-form theory of law to EU climate law in Transnational Legal Theory

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Commodity-form theory of law, the climate crisis, and the European Union
This essay reflects on how the Marxist commodity-form theory of law can inform approaches to EU climate law. The commodity-form theory understands law as a central social relation in the capitalist...
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November 16, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Much of Graber’s writing says, in essence, “What happens if we don’t accept this?” – if we dissect it to see its origins and impacts, or if we reject it, if we lift it off like some burden we don’t have to carry, some outfit we don’t have to wear? What happens is we get free.
‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world
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November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM