capitalism
Modern abolitionist movement needed to free the 50 million enslaved globally
July 10, 2026Just as it was with the transatlantic trade in humans, profit is at the heart of today's systems of slavery and forced labor.
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‘The Great Clown Bank Show’ theater review: A satirical takedown of the capitalist class
July 6, 2026Through the lens of a circus, it deliciously and maliciously pokes fun at those penny-pinchers who make life so unbearable and miserable for the rest of us, from mass layoffs to financial scams.
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U.S.-driven humanitarian crisis forces changes on Cuba
June 24, 2026The Trump administration is learning that Cubans and their government are unified, resourceful, and full of resistance.
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Socialism under siege: Cuba embarks on emergency reforms to survive
June 22, 2026U.S. corporations and wealthy Cuban exiles are hoping for a USSR-style collapse, but the government says it has no intention of letting that happen.
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Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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