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  • Green growth

    Green growth

    Originally published: Uneven Earth on October 31, 2022 by Winne van Woerden (more by Uneven Earth)  | (Posted Dec 03, 2022)

    Capitalist and neocolonial fantasies are hampering a just transition.

  • Narrative of Sham Elections

    The narrative of sham elections

    Originally published: The Postil Magazine on November 1, 2022 by Wayne Cristaudo (more by The Postil Magazine) (Posted Dec 02, 2022)

    Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a “sham” and therefore “rigged.”

  • People at a crowded concert. Credit: CHUTTERSNAP / Unsplash

    Should we be worried about eight billion people?

    Originally published: rabble.ca on November 30, 2022 by David Suzuki (more by rabble.ca)  | (Posted Dec 02, 2022)

    Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.

  • BP’s upstream operation. (Photo: corporationprofile.wordpress)

    11 years on… UK gets what it was always after; Libya’s oil

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 29, 2022 by Agencies (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Dec 01, 2022)

    British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK took part in destabilizing the nation with the 2011 military intervention.

  • Residents wearing face masks line up to get their routine COVID-19 throat swabs at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

    China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on November 30, 2022 by Peter Symonds (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Dec 01, 2022)

    In the aftermath of last weekend’s protests in several Chinese cities, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference Tuesday calling for speeding up the implementation of the 20 measures announced on November 11 which initiated the lifting of the country’s Zero-COVID policy that has suppressed numerous outbreaks over the past three years.

  • National Day of Mourning 2022 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Nov. 24. Photo: Rachel Jones / UAINE

    ‘The world now faces the challenges our people foretold’

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on November 29, 2022 by Leonard Peltier (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Dec 01, 2022)

    Leonard Peltier: “Being my age and having spent these many years in prison plays on your heart to the nth degree. I am here because I wanted to make a difference for our people, and I want to encourage others to do the same.”

  • U.S. commits to reignite space race during new Cold War vs. China, Russia

    U.S. commits to reignite space race during new Cold War vs. China, Russia

    Originally published: Liberation News on November 22, 2022 by Jasper Saah (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2022)

    Artemis I is a dry run for the return to the moon, a test of the new Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will bring astronauts into lunar orbit on Artemis II and onto the surface on Artemis III.

  • Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, November 27, 2022

    Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on November 2022 by Morning Star Online (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2022)

    Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.

  • Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’ Among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs by John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2022)

    Book Review: ‘Before Crips’ dismantles dominant narrative on gangs

    Originally published: Toward Freedom on November 29, 2022 by Danny Shaw (more by Toward Freedom)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2022)

    For the past several decades, the media has severely manipulated the question of gangs and their socio-economic origins. John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani’s new book, “Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’” among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs, exposes the mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding gangs.

  • A Holy Land Foundation press conference. (Photo: via Twitter)

    ‘Holy Land Foundation 5’ are victims of America’s unjust persecution of Palestinians

    Originally published: Palestine Chronicle on November 27, 2022 by Iqbal Jassat (more by Palestine Chronicle)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2022)

    The case against the “Holy Land 5” led to the wrongful conviction and unjust long-term imprisonment of five highly respected Palestinian men. Three of them, Mufid Abdulqader, Ghassan Elashi, and Shukri Abu Baker, remain imprisoned today.

  • [Source: yahoo.com]

    Western media has not much evolved from the era of the yellow peril in its routine China-bashing

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on November 27, 2022 by Felix Abt (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2022)

    Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.

  • Haze of pollution in Beijing. 2006. (Photo: David Barrie / Flickr)

    On the development of China’s environmental policies towards an ecological civilization

    Originally published: Friends of Socialist China on November 15, 2022 by Efe Can Gürcan (more by Friends of Socialist China) (Posted Nov 29, 2022)

    We are very pleased to republish this important article by Efe Can Gürcan, Associate Professor at Türkiye’s Istinye University, which originally appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 of the BRIQ(Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly).

  • Petro, Lula, and Maduro agreed upon convening a South American summit for the Amazon rainforest - Reprodução

    The environment may be the number one issue in the new agenda among progressive South American

    Originally published: Brasil de Fato on November 24, 2022 by Lucas Estanislau (more by Brasil de Fato)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2022)

    Petro’s, Lula’s, and Maduro’s positions show South Americans are united about the Amazon; it may reintegrate Venezuela.

  • Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, and former president Bill Clinton at opening of garment factory in Haiti on October 22, 2012 (Photo: Getty Pool)

    Haiti in the Caribbean: A political economy perspective on the urgent crisis of imperialism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 23, 2022 by Tamanisha J. John (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    If Haiti is “the poorest country in the hemisphere” it is because imperialist policies continue to impoverish and destabilize that nation.

  • Photo: Jernej Furman.

    Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism

    Originally published: Developing Economics on November 22, 2022 by Güney Isikara (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of ‘overlapping emergencies’ and ‘polycrisis’ are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.

  • Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, le 15 septembre @BELGAIMAGE

    The Russian Winter offensive

    Originally published: Russian and Eurasian Politics on November 22, 2022 by Gordon M. Hahn (more by Russian and Eurasian Politics) (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    Russia is one or two more massive bombing attacks on Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure from permanently disabling Ukraine’s electricity, water, and railroad systems.

  • Credit: The Cradle

    The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 25, 2022 by William Van Wagenen (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    An investigation into British and American collusion with the terror groups that kidnapped and murdered western hostages in Syria.

  • Demonstration at White House, 2017 (CC photo: Ted Eytan)

    It’s time to hold news media accountable for transphobia

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 23, 2022 by Olivia Riggio (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 20.

  • DeSantis ran Guantanamo torture

    “I was screaming and he was smiling”: DeSantis ran Guantanamo torture

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 21, 2022 by Eyes Left Podcast (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2022)

    There is more to than what meets the eye on DeSantis’ military past beyond a mere involvement in Guantanamo Bay.

  • Camp town near US base in South Korea, c. 1965. Credit: Green Bee Publishing.

    Supreme Court orders reparations for sex workers serving U.S. Military

    Originally published: The Blue Roof on October 21, 2022 by TK (more by The Blue Roof)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2022)

    Reminiscent of Imperial Japan’s “Comfort Women,” the organized sex trade near U.S. bases in Korea involved horrendous human rights violations.

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