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Ukraine tried to attack the Kremlin with drones
Despite what happened, the military parade on Red Square will go ahead as planned, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
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Harry Belafonte, the activist who became an artist, dies at 96
Belafonte’s activism changed America, his singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, and his acting paved the way for Black performers.
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Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism
In the last days of the Trump administration, the U.S. government returned Cuba to its state sponsors of terrorism list. This was a vindictive act. Trump said it was because Cuba played host to guerrilla groups from Colombia, which was actually part of Cuba’s role as host of the peace talks.
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South Korea prosecutes its citizens for screening North Korean drama
According to the newspaper Jeju Today, the Yoon government is claiming that screening the North Korean film The Story of Our Home, shown in South Korea in February 2019 as part of a national reunification festival, violated SK National Security Law. It is now investigating the organizers of the film screening three years later.
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German military preparing for potential war with Russia, leaked internal report reveals
A leaked confidential strategy paper shows Germany is preparing for a potential war with Russia, as it boosts its budget and plans to become the world’s third-biggest military spender.
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Ethiopia nears victory in Its Civil War, U.S. scrambles to control the outcome
The Ethiopian and Eritrean armies now seem close to winning a two-year war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF,) a U.S.-backed clique that ruled Ethiopia brutally for 27 years, from 1991 to 2018.
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Brainwashed for war with Russia
Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden—I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell—will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses.
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A Marine’s assessment of Russia’s Military “Operation” in Ukraine (a “profound appreciation of all three realms in which wars are waged”)
We — I’ll use the royal “we” here — at NC have long been aware that analysis and coverage of Russia’s tactics and strategy in Ukraine that is not dictated by organs of state security here in the United States is an inverted pyramid resting on a very small point: A small group of dissidents willing to go on the record with their views.
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Harvard: Why the Crew, and not the Captain, Will Save America
“You fucked up; you trusted us.”
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Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system
An inside look at the free universal health-care system created by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which has saved countless lives.
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8 years on, the Ukrainian crisis is still the West’s fault
Political scientist John Mearsheimer stated that there was only one solution to the Ukrainian crisis: the West should “abandon their plan to westernize Ukraine and instead aim to make it a neutral buffer between NATO and Russia.”
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Ukraine as the ‘Geopolitical Pivot’: The U.S. Grand Strategy 1991-2022
As we write these notes at the beginning of March 2022, the eight-year limited civil war in Ukraine has turned into a full-scale war. This represents a turning point in the New Cold War and a great human tragedy. By threatening global nuclear holocaust, these events are also now endangering the entire world. To understand the origins of the New Cold War and the onset of the current Russian entry into the Ukrainian civil war, it is necessary to go back to decisions associated with the creation of the New World Order made in Washington when the previous Cold War ended in 1991.
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The U.S. is preparing war with China and Russia at the same time
In the strategic vision of the U.S., Russia should be disarmed to become part of Europe as a “sidekick” and a bridgehead to contain China, the “more dangerous enemy” as Kissinger described it.
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Spanish translations of pamphlets / manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Press
We are delighted to announce the online Spanish translations of pamphlets/ manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Essays. These pamphlets are parts of the series, Moving Beyond Capitalism – Now! and Thinking Freedom.
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The U.S. is intentionally strangling Venezuela
The consequences of the current U.S. sanctions regime, and collusion with the Venezuelan opposition, have been devastating for the Venezuelan people. Against a suffocating embargo and corrupt bureaucracy, the revolution will survive only if the grassroots reinvent it.
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Who with whom elections: Berlin Bulletin, no. 194, September 20, 2021
In German elections—like the coming ones, as always on a Sunday—all you have to do is present the registration paper mailed to every citizen, then make crosses on a paper ballot. No trouble with the boss, no missing work, long lines or quarrels about fraud or discrimination. It sounds easy.
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Advance Release! The Leaked IPCC Reports
It is a sign of just how serious matters have become—with the UN COP26 talks on climate in Glasgow this November now regarded by many as a last-ditch effort to achieve a global solution on behalf of humanity as a whole—that the early draft versions of Part II and Part III of the IPCC’s, ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, were leaked during the summer.
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Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable
Another leak of the UN report warns that the only known way to avert climate breakdown is to avoid any model which is based on perpetual growth.
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U.S. defeat in Afghanistan—A contrast with the Soviet experience
The U.S. has been defeated today in Afghanistan not by a super power with an advanced military, but by a rag-tag army of fanatical locals who perfected and consolidated their fanaticism under U.S., Saudi and Pakistani tutelage in the 1980s to fight the Soviets.
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Glen Ford, veteran journalist and founder of Black Agenda Report, dies at 71
Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.