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China exposes US cognitive warfare
Reposted from Paul Steigan. The Xinhua Institute, a Beijing-based think tank affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency, has published a major report detailing the arsenal of tools the United States has at its disposal to wage “cognitive warfare” to “colonize the minds” of nations on a planetary scale. It is rare to see Chinese critics…
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Long overdue extension coming for the Tyne & Wear Metro
The era of late-stage capitalism in which we live is exemplified by an almost non-existent manufacturing base and in its stead, the export of capital to countries where cheaper resources and labour maximise profits. Today, the main source of profit generation in Britain comes from capital flows into the City of London, and through stocks…
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The Darkling Thrush
Poem by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey,And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant,His crypt…
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America’s Colonization of the Minds
By Paul Steigan. Even though the US empire is on a steep decline and is doing very poorly even in fields where the country was previously completely superior, it maintains a position and an almost bewitching control over ideology and culture. We see this in how Norwegian media and Norwegian culture are also infiltrated by…
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Beware Palantir!
Reposted with thanks from CPGB-ML On 25 November 2025, the Guardian published an article, written by columnist Arwa Mahdawi, entitled ‘JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?’. The article explained that US vice-president JD Vance, with aspirations to run for president in 2028, may find himself compromised…
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The People’s Game or a Geopolitical Tool?
FIFA’s Growing Alignment with American Imperialism. By Alexandros SchulmanFollowing on from an article “The Americanisation of the World Cup,” it’s time to turn attention to FIFA itself and the deepening infiltration to it by the machinery of American imperialism. The myth pushed by footballing authorities that football stands ‘above politics’ has always been bourgeois propaganda that conceals…
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Mary Bamber
Ignorance is Blitz – why working class women must stand up and fight like Mary Bamber did. Mary Hardie Bamber — ‘Ma Bamber’ to the people of Liverpool — stands as an inspiring yet neglected figure in Britain’s working-class history. Born in Edinburgh in 1874, she devoted her life to the cause of the poor,…
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The Song of the Shirt
By Thomas Hood WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the “Song of the Shirt.” “Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof!…
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