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How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Sam Pizzigati Counterpunch
Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Our tax dollars have essentially supersized our world’s

Israel’s War Against the World

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies LA Progressive
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 23–29

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Church in McComb, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by a bomb in 1964 Wrist-Slaps for Racist Terrorists (1964), Stop Global Warming! (2009), An ‘October Surprise’ for the Ages (1924), Nothing New About ‘Lock ‘em Up!’ (1994), Integrated Schools – ‘Just Around the Corner’ (1969)

Meet Lucie Castets, the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister

Harrison Stetler Jacobin
After the New Popular Front won July’s French elections, it nominated Lucie Castets for prime minister. Emmanuel Macron ignored the result. Castets told Jacobin how the left-wing coalition can build on its progress and stop the lurch to the right.

After Nasrallah

Adam Shatz London Review of Books
Hizbullah is not a personality-driven organisation, or claims not to be, but in Nasrallah it had a leader of unusual gifts.

Is This Israel’s First Apartheid War?

Oren Yiftachel 972 Magazine
Far from lacking a political strategy, Israel is fighting to reinforce the supremacist project it has built for decades between the river and the sea.
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