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Oklahoma official instructs teachers to say Tulsa Massacre not racial
An Oklahoma state official is facing impeachment calls following his statement that urged teachers to cover the 1921 massacre but not “say that the skin color determined it”.
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The war in Ukraine is the war for the dollar
Oleg Nesterenko: “Moscow has really threatened the status of the American dollar on the international stage, and therefore the whole American economy behind it.”
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British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture
Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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The fires that burn in France are about its colonial legacy
France never really came to terms with its colonial heritage or its colonial mindset.
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Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene
Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.
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What is metabolic rift?
The Ecosocialist idea you’ve never heard of and might need.
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Sober Up Liberals: The U.S. Constitution Sucks
Review of Robert Ovetz, We the Elites: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few (London: Pluto Press, 2022). People in the United States generally have confidence in the country’s political system, believing that it has the capacity to solve meaningful problems. Conservatives and liberals alike sincerely respect what they consider the nation’s sacrosanct Constitution, established […]
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Without the 2014 coup, Ukraine would be living in peace
Oleg Nesterenko: “When we talk about the reasons that led the Russians to intervene militarily in Ukraine, root causes and triggers are often confused, especially in the Western press. The triggers are mistaken for the causes. As for the causes, we don’t even talk about them, or we just talk nonsense. It’s important to distinguish one from the other.”
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Underestimate Russia at your own risk: A comparison of Hubris by Germany during WWII and today’s collective West
In honor of the NATO summit July 11 and 12, this is a comparison of how the Nazi leadership in World War Two and today’s collective West similarly underestimated Russia and overestimated their capabilities.
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Caged, stripped, beaten: Latest ‘Save the Children’ report on Palestine makes chilling read
According to a just-released report by the international rights organization, Save the Children, four out of five Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system are beaten and 69 per cent are strip-searched.
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Black liberation organizers across the U.S. reflect on the passing of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Shakur was a prisoner-of-war of a decades-long Black liberation struggle for 37 years. He was only released when he was months away from death.
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NATO/CIA false flag operation in Račak in 1999 set precedent for similar operations in Syria and Ukraine that were designed to create a pretext for military intervention
Clinton administration claimed Serbian forces massacred civilians when deaths at Račak resulted from fighting between Serbian Army and terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which Washington supported
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Africa sets the course for Latin America and multipolarity
The African continent, like the American continent, was subjected to colonization and intervention by European nations and, although the processes were different, there are common channels between the two histories, just as there are with Asia.
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Cambodian Premier reminds Ukraine of the horrors of cluster bombs
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recalls Cambodia’s “painful experience” with U.S.-dropped cluster munitions in the 1970s, which continue to cause casualties to this date.
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Renewable energy development is less important than stopping Chinese industry!
There’s a photovoltaic war to prove it-but China’s won it for now.
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Starmer branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ at Durham Miners’ Gala
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary Alan Mardghum said it was an absolute disgrace that the Labour leader had punished MPs for standing on picket lines in support of striking workers.
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Healing the wounds of War in Vietnam
From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.
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Silence of the Lambs: How the Russian Communists have responded to the Wagner mutiny and Prigozhin’s Empire
The calls have begun in Mosco, for keeping intact Yevgeny Prigozhin’s conglomerate of military budget contractors. The reason argued is that they have established themselves so strategically in the logistics of the military services that they cannot be purged without doing greater damage than Prigozhin himself has caused. In short, a Russian oligarch who knows too much, with too many mouths to feed, too many pockets to fill, and so too big to fail.
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Deadly hazards of capitalist profit system
The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.
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Despite warnings, IAEA approves Japan release plan for contaminated Fukushima water
“Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,” said one local fisherman earlier this year.