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International

Colombian #MeToo Exposes Workplace Power Hierarchies

Colombia's second #MeToo wave demonstrates how sexual harassment operates not as individual misconduct but as a structural mechanism for maintaining hierarchical control in workplaces. The movement's expansion from journalism to medicine, education, and NGOs reveals harassment as endemic to...

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Politics

UK Complicity in Iran War Exposes Labour's Imperial Contradictions

The Guardian's live coverage reveals a growing crisis for the Starmer government as opposition parties demand Britain withdraw military support for US operations against Iran. Liberal Democrats warn that continued access to British airbases makes the UK an 'accomplice to war crimes,' while the...

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International

Oil and Empire: Who Pays for the Iran War

The escalating US-Israeli war on Iran reveals the central role of energy infrastructure in modern imperialist conflict. Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars petrochemical facility—responsible for half the country's petrochemical production—and Trump's explicit threats to destroy power plants and...

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International

Oil, Ultimatums, and War Crimes: The Real Stakes in Iran

The five-week US-Israel war on Iran reveals the fundamental contradictions of late imperial capitalism in crisis. Trump's explicit threat to bomb civilian infrastructure—power plants and bridges—strips away any pretense of humanitarian intervention, exposing naked resource warfare. The article...

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Politics

War Abroad, Authoritarianism at Home: Capital's Double Crisis

This article captures two simultaneous developments that appear disconnected but are dialectically related: an escalating US-Israel war against Iran featuring crude presidential threats, and an intensifying domestic conflict between Trump's executive power grabs and federal judges attempting to...

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Politics

Catholic Abuse Case Exposes Institutional Power Over Vulnerable

The prosecution of Father Anthony Odiong illuminates the structural dynamics that enable clergy abuse: the Catholic Church functions as a transnational institution with immense material resources and ideological authority, creating conditions where spiritual power translates into coercive sexual...

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Economics

Waitrose Fires Worker Who Stopped Theft After Cutting Security

Walker Smith's dismissal from Waitrose after 17 years of service crystallizes a fundamental tension in capitalist employment relations: workers are expected to identify with and protect company interests while being denied any agency or security in return. Smith describes Waitrose as 'like my...

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