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Perspectives on Base, Superstructure and Animal Liberation

For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure — specifically what they suggest is necessary to achieve...

07.05.2026 20

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The Iran war is Immoral, Illegal and a Colossal Waste of Money

President Donald Trump’s imperialist assault on Iran, which has claimed countless innocent lives, and will take many more before it’s finished, is...

19.03.2026 20

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Why Animal Activists Should Oppose the Iran War

Anyone who believes President Donald Trump is attacking Iran for the sake of democracy or human rights is profoundly naive. At no point in his time in...

04.03.2026 60

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Nationalize Amazon

There are many lessons we could take from the last decade of American politics, in which our country has degenerated further and further into an...

02.03.2026 20

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Private Cultivated-Meat Failures Reaffirm Need for Public Research

Recently, two notable cultivated-meat companies failed. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells,...

29.12.2025 20

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Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism 

Recently, Faunalytics, the animal-welfare research nonprofit, put out a report about how American voters respond to nonhuman policy proposals. I’ve...

03.12.2025 10

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Private Cultivated-Meat Research Can Only Take Us So Far

The nascent cultivated-meat industry is in a funding drought. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without...

24.07.2025 20

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Cultivated Meat and ‘Technological Solutionism’

There’s a criticism which I see with some frequency in the animal-rights movement which argues those who view cultivated meat as means of reducing...

19.05.2025 20

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Jon Hochschartner