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Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City.
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Music of significance. War has taught us nothing.
3,640,034 views Feb 18, 2008
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955. In one of Pete’s darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel “And Quie Flows the Don”. Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as “Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?” Shortly after she sang it in German. The song’s impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It’s universal message, “let there be peace in the world” did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
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LSE British Politics and Policy reposted
LSE British Politics and Policy
“If you were raised in a community in which past generations are lionised as heroes for their self-sacrifice, you may value social above individual ends.”
How the scars of past wars continue to shape UK society
Edward Pinchbeck, Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto discuss new research exploring how memory of losses from war affects
Algeria’s President Tebboune increased minimum wage to $170 monthly in 2022. He eliminated taxes for people, who earn less than $216 monthly. He increased pensions to at least $120 monthly. His government gives $92 to unemployed young people monthly to preserve their dignity.
Russian authorities have filed a lawsuit against Andrey Melnichenko as they seek to seize and nationalise one of the companies in the billionaire oligarch’s metals and mining empire. The sharks are feeding on their own blood
Russia files lawsuit against billionaire oligarch Andrey Melnichenko
That’s nice
Now how about you stop importing Russian gas & letting Russia use #Austria as an espionage & money laundering Freizeitpark?
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MFA Austria
@MFA_Austria
Aug 19
We strongly condemn the horrific Russian missile attack on #Chernihiv killing and injuring many Ukrainian civilians. These brutal and unjustifiable attacks have to end! Perpetrators will be held accountable. #StandWithUkraine
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Eliot Higgins
@EliotHiggins
21st August 2023
Bellingcat, working with Scripps News and Lloyd’s List, evidenced multiple incidents of Russia stealing Ukraine’s grain, tracking their shipments of the stolen grain across the world.
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21st August 2023
Despite joining the OPCW and promising to give up its chemical weapons programme in response to this attack, Syria executed hundreds more chemical attacks using chlorine and sarin in the following years. A huge failure by the international community to control Syria’s CW use.
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Oz Katerji
@OzKaterji
21st August 2023
Today marks 10 years since the Assad regime murdered 1500 civilians in Ghouta with Sarin nerve agent. In 10 years, not a single person responsible has been held accountable for this crime against humanity.
21st August 2023
Replying to
the president of #Russia held a “meeting at the headquarters of the special military operation group in Rostov-on-Don.” The main meaning of this buffoonery is to show the final and irrevocable victory over the rebellion of Yevgeny #Prigozhin and PMC #Wagner,… 2/4
This is surely the hotchpotch ideology of Putin’s Russia at its worst An Orthodox priest blessed a new statue of Stalin before telling the assembled crowd: “Yes, the Church suffered under Stalin. But, thanks to this, we now have lots of new Russian martyrs to whom we can pray”
21st August 2023
‘Made in China 2025’ is among several crucial steps taken by Xi Jinping to strengthen China’s scientific innovation capacity, writes
In a world striving for cohesion, India emerges as a unifying force at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) 2023 Summit, embracing nations in harmony. #StartupSeHaiIndia #Startups #IndianStartups #IndependenceDay #IndianIndependenceDay #India #IndianEconomy #StartupIndia
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discuss Iran’s potential full membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its “interest to join the activities of BRICS”
21sst August 2023
Niger demonstrators chanted slogans against former colonial power France and West African regional bloc ECOWAS after it vowed to restore ousted leader Mohamed Bazoum https://aje.io/2gb7sh
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21st August 2023
The BRICS summit will begin tomorrow …
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21st August 2023
China wants to turn BRICS into a full-fledged geopolitical rival of the G7, writes Financial Times. According to the publication, Beijing will make such a call to the member countries of the Alliance at the upcoming summit in South Africa, where the largest expansion of the… Show more
21st August 2023
South Africa is about to host the BRICS summit, bringing together leaders from emerging markets seeking to balance Western dominance in the world order
has five key themes to watch out for https://trib.al/OKuRIXw
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What do the BRICS stand for? Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine? Xi Jinping’s mass detention and persecution of Uyghur Muslims? Modi’s Islamophobia? Not a very attractive picture.
The BRICS are getting together in South Africa
China’s plan to expand the bloc is revealing the contradictions at its core
21st August 2023
Katerina Meyers was pressured to leave a 12-year career as an FSB counterintelligence officer after she began transitioning from male to female in 2020
BREAKING: Finland’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Development, Ville Tavio, has announced that Finland is going to cut off its development aid completely for countries that support Russia.
21st August 2023
A message for our UK readers: The Price of Truth, a documentary film about the life of Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, will be airing tonight at 10pm on
. Photo: Channel 4 https://channel4.com/programmes/the-price-of-truth
21st August 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has left Denmark for Athens, Greece, to attend an Aug. 21 dinner with the leaders of the Western Balkan countries.
21st August 2023
No more camouflage, nothing coy here: Just Russian propagandists calling for wiping out Ukraine and the mass murder of Ukrainians: “Those who don’t want to live with us will get shot” “The Ukrainian national project has to be dismantled”
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