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Infighting between ultra-right factions of the Republican Party is the immediate trigger for the failure to pass a budget.
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Indictment of Democratic Senator Menendez exposes corruption in the US political establishment
The indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, his wife Nadine and three New Jersey businessmen with connections to the Egyptian government on bribery charges has exposed the depths of corruption existing within the political establishment.
Kevin Reed•
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Government cuts and hyperinflation have led to a drastic rundown of education facilities and the increasing inability of parents to pay for the education of their children.
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Alabama plans to use a more “humane” method of execution: Nitrogen gas asphyxiation
An anesthesiologist at Emory University Hospital described the execution method as “death by asphyxiation. This is choking someone to death with a gas. Why anyone would think that would be something pleasant or painless is really beyond my understanding.”
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Kate Randall•
Tom Peters•
Jacob Crosse, Barry Grey•
Oscar Grenfell•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
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The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
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David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
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