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Gambling Till You Drop
Natasha Dow Schull, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press, 2012). This is a book about gambling machines. Gambling machines are everywhere. They occupy most ...
Many Ukrainians Do Not Want To Fight!
Ukrainian nationalist propaganda, reproduced in the Western corporate media, projects an image of Ukrainians as a nation united in armed resistance to Russian aggression. However, many ordinary ...
Calhoun Correctional Institution: A Gladiator School
Calhoun Correctional Institution is one of fifty major prisons operated by the Florida Department of Corrections, the state’s largest agency. It is in Blountstown, Calhoun County in ...
War in Ukraine — Debate in Germany
On May 6 The Guardian carried an article about two open letters addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz that had been published in the German press at the beginning of ...
Capitalism, healthcare, Housing, Politics, War
News From Canada — July 2022
Our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada discuss the cost of living, the shortage of family doctors, coyotes, election results, women's shelters, guns, abortion, and rents.
In Defense of Free Speech
In Defense of Free Speech The World Socialist Movement is in favor of free speech. Free expression of opinion is essential to any genuine democracy, while democracy ...
The Right to Life Ends at Birth
The Supreme Court has been throwing its weight around lately. Not content with sabotaging legislative attempts to restrict access to mass-murder weapons, it has now overturned Roe ...
War in Ukraine — Enough!
The war in Ukraine seems to be moving toward a stalemate. A ceasefire is needed without delay. Prolongation of hostilities can only bring more devastation to Ukraine and increase the risk of escalation to nuclear Armageddon.
Climate, Environment, International relations
The Heat To Come
Is climate change approaching a turning point? Heatwaves in the US, Europe and South Asia impel us to ask where is the threshold to human survival, when will that threshold be crossed, and what will happen to the victims.
