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Panda politics

mercredi 11 septembre 2019 à 02:00

China uses pandas as instruments of international public relations. Now Germans are turning that around by calling two newborn pandas "Hong" and "Kong".

To maintain its monopoly on pandas, China only leases them, never selling them, and the lease says that all offspring belong to China. But this is no reason for Germans to call the pandas by the names that China says are "official".

One small but significant way to push back on China is by not making any particular fuss about pandas.

Urgent: Affordable insulin

mercredi 11 septembre 2019 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Big Pharma to make insulin affordable, as it used to be.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Neoliberal economists

mardi 10 septembre 2019 à 02:00

"Neoliberal economists present themselves as ‘neutral’ technocrats, but they’re actually partisans for the status quo [and for inequality]. Don’t fall for it."

Overt endorsement of bloody military coup

mardi 10 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Bolsonaro overtly endorsed the bloody military coup in Chile.

He has kept company with supporters of Brazil's military government, but this is more explicit.

Republican Party primary elections

mardi 10 septembre 2019 à 02:00

The Republican Party rigs its own primary elections, too, by cancelling them entirely.

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