⚙️ Average working hours dropped drastically after 1917, due to fear that the Russian Revolution would inspire similar revolutions in other countries. The effect was more pronounced in countries with larger Communist Parties. Capitalism did not reduce working hours on its own.
For those who did everything our parents told us to do... now what? --- Hello everyone! We've gone dark to protest Reddit's API changes towards third party apps.
“I saw the quietest guys switch, show serious psychopathic traits. They were lawless. They felt untouchable.” Newly released eyewitness testimony from former UK Special Forces members gives a detailed account of systemic, routine, and approved unlawful killings by British troops in Afghanistan and..
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The red flag fell over the Kremlin in 1991. The West declared victory. China took notes. For three decades, the CPC has dissected why the USSR collapsed—not because socialism failed, but because its guardians surrendered. Here’s what China learned. 🧵...
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So many so called "American patriots" have been exposed in the last two years for being loyal to a foreign country (Israel) over their own. They use all sorts of talking points, buzz words and terms that trigger red blooded American conservatives but deep down, we see their true loyalties and...
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Nobody in Ukraine or the West wanted a ceasefire, they even refused to negotiate They said they'd destroy Russia, and take back all the land, then "We must keep fighting to get in a better negotiating position" Why do they want a ceasefire now? Simple, because they're losing
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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs | Senator Tom Cotton's legislation seeks to "prevent advanced American chips from falling into the hands of adversaries like Communist China."
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Its strategy of multi-alignment, both with the Global South and the West, is meant to court people on both "sides" but the result - illustrated by the global reaction to the altercation with Pakistan - is much the contrary: everyone sees India as hedging its bets rather than standing on principle...
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The Scouring of the Shire: a letter from concerned Palantir alumni to the tech workers of Silicon Valley
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People think the stock market is a scoreboard for the economy. It’s not. It’s a siphon. Its real function is to drain value from the real economy and funnel it upward — through debt, compound interest, and asset inflation that always outpace actual production. China’s market is flat because the...
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Mark Zuckerberg is building a new surveillance state
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The end of US empire is not the end of the world
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Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)
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Progressives Need a New Toolkit to Fight Inflation - The Sling
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How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate | Caitlin Johnstone
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How Many J-20 Stealth Fighters Will China Build? Top Expert Predicts over 1000
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Trump SMASHES Big Pharma! Slashes Drug Prices to Save Americans BILLIONS! (Basically a new executive order that Trump has signed - we will have to see if this holds)
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B-52 Bomber Upgrade Program’s Multi-Billion Dollar Cost Overruns Could Force Deep Cuts
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Same exact play and script as the lies that led to the US invasion of Iraq: fear-mongering over WMD, secret nuclear sites "uncovered," heroic dissident exile groups, etc. Neocons are so unimaginative. It's been 20 years. Get some new war propaganda | Glenn Greenwald on Iran's alleged WMD accusations
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Putin diplomacy checkmate. Zelensky Turkey stunt | The Duran
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I’m not controlled by big pharma, the military industrial complex, or AIPAC. And I’m not suicidal nor depressed and I never have been. I’m actually very happy and extremely healthy and I love my life. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently feels the need to post this with the recent wave of deaths)
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Virtually everything that the current admin has done so far, amongst things Trump promised in his electoral campaign, has been for a show: ▪️Where are the Epstein files? ▪️Who killed JFK? ▪️Is there gold at Fort Knox? Next thing you know the USAID will re-open its doors. 🤫
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Meet the People Profiting from US Military Aid to Israel | naked capitalism
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Terrorists R' Us
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Seyed Marandi & Alastair Crooke: Trump's Negotiations Fail
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How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?
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