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Managers of chaos in Venezuela
An interview with Cuban journalist and researcher Raúl Antonio Capote, former double agent who infiltrated the CIA and author of the book “Guarimbas. Los gestores del caos” (Guarimbas. The managers of chaos)
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A Declaration by the American Association of University Professors of Barnard and Columbia
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.
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So-Called “Peak China” Is Simply a Western Campaign for China to Commit Economic Suicide
Despite the fact that China’s economy continues to far outgrow all major Western economies the Western media is energetically promoting a myth that China’s economy either has or is about to drastically slow down.
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Coral catastrophe signals our own undoing
Five times in the history of life on Earth the corals have perished, swept from the board by conditions hostile to nearly all life. Each time, it has taken them millions of years to evolve anew. Each mass death of corals has been accompanied by the mass deaths of most other species, on land and at sea.
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U.S. moves previously banned missiles closer to China and Russia
The U.S. military openly describes the “Typhon” as a “strategic weapon system that would be used against higher-value targets like air defense assets and command and control nodes.”
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“Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom” – book review
Vulture Capitalism demolishes the idea of the ‘free market’ in the corporate age, but has limitations in its analysis of capitalism and how to challenge it, argues Dominic Alexander.
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Fetishising the growth rate of GDP
JOHN Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy.
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Israel subjects UN workers to torture
Israel is abusing UNRWA employees detained in Gaza in order to extract forced confessions against the agency, with detainees describing being subjected to acts of torture.
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Faulty assurances: The Judicial torture of Assange continues
Only this month, the near comatose U.S. President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded.
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The scam behind ‘free elections’
Andreína Chávez tackles the disingenuous propaganda behind ‘free elections’ as Venezuela’s presidential contest approaches.
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The North American peace movement at an inflection point
The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing U.S. wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China.
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Joseph Massad responds to fabrications and lies about him in Congress
On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.
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The Death of Paris ‘15
The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards for how nation/states must approach the net zero target year 2050 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in stages, starting with major reductions by 2030.
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‘Interventions laid the groundwork for the crisis in Haiti today’
CounterSpin interview with Chris Bernadel on Haiti
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The billionaire ‘nepo baby’ boom
In every country and culture, capitalism depends on an ideological mirage of equal opportunity and reward for effort, to conceal, as much as possible, the reality of brutal exploitation and inequality.
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Prison notorious for rape is slated for closure but not releasing survivors
The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.
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China’s unfair ‘overcapacity’
China is the only country in the world that produces all categories of goods classified by the World Customs Organization (WCO).
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Dossier No. 75: The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organisation and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners.
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The GI Life in “The One We Had to Win”
Veteran Cleveland writer and photographer Scott MacGregor recovered a manuscript written by his uncle Hugh O’Neill, which turned into Captured! A World War II Memoir. In it, O’Neill weaves a real-life tale of his life as a prisoner of the Germans in the last year of the Second World War and Cleveland comic artist Gary Dumm, who has worked with the best of the genre, Harvey Pekar in particular, provides vivid illustrations.
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Pope Francis has abandoned transgender Catholics
In a recent official Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita, the Pope has endorsed a document that effectively outlaws sex change for transgender Catholics. The Declaration is both harsh and unrelenting in its tone, dismissive of new science and judgemental of those Catholics who in good faith make life choices contrary to the edicts of the Church. Nothing new here, but just another slap in the face for people who seek to live their God given lives as authentically and honestly as possible.