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The Problem With Facebook Is Fraud

David Dayen The American Prospect
Facebook is just a garden-variety fraud scheme that breaks the law for its own self-enrichment

No, the Strike Wave Is Not About Vaccine Mandates

Jeff Schuhke In These Times - Labor
The recent spate of militant labor action has been over workers demanding better pay and working conditions—not opposing Covid vaccine requirements.

Non-Aligned Movement Celebrates Sixty Years

Charles McKelvey New Cold War
On October 11, delegations representing the governments of more than 105 nations, nearly all of the global South, met in Belgrade, Serbia to commemorate the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement sixty years ago in the capital of the former Yugoslavia.

Figs: A Taste of Wonder

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Orion Magazine
For more than nine thousand years, figs have been a keystone species, a critical component of the food web. Twelve hundred different kinds of animals depend on them.

COP26 Exposes Failure of Neoliberalism

Robert Hunziker Counter Punch
Smoke stack spewing smoke.
The neoliberal brand of capitalism has failed the planet and failed civilization. It’s an archaic outmoded system with very deep roots to a centuries-old masculine-dominated white world.