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How the Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

Vijay Prashad Tricontinental
Every year unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease-the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food

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Why Puerto Rico Remains a Colony in All but Name

Alex MacArthur Jacobin
Cold War Puerto Rico by Steve Howell argues that Washington has long treated the island as giant aircraft carrier. The result has been severe: residents face economic strain while lacking many democratic rights and social protections.

“Bloody Unacceptable Is What It Is”

Emilie Anomalie The Left Berlin
Unless war in Sudan is reframed as an attack on civilians aimed at rolling back gains made during the 2019 revolution, rather than a war between generals, the conference ‘will remain an exercise in optics and will not be a genuine pathway to peace.’

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Palestine 36 Reclaims a Buried Anti-Colonial Revolt

Interview with Annemarie Jacir by Ed Rampell Jacobin
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

Palestine 36 Reclaims a Buried Anti-Colonial Revolt

Annemarie Jacir, Ed Rampell Jacobin
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

The Most Rancorous Line

Nicholas Guyatt The New York Review of Books
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
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