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During WWII, Aug. 9 saw barbarities inflicted on innocents, from gassing a Jewish Carmelite nun to beheading a German Christian war protester to the incineration of Japan’s most Christian city, Gary Kohls writes.
Caitlin Johnstone calls reflexive subservience a zombie infection; a mental virus spread by propaganda and toxic ideologies.
Catholic bishops in Brazil are also accusing the government of systematically using “unscientific arguments.”
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order.
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
We should relocate our racist statues to museums where we can remember our racist history in the appropriate context.