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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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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.
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Canada’s political elites are climate criminals in the pocket of Big Oil
The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.
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Is what we have “crony capitalism”?
Under monopoly capitalism of course this relationship between monopoly capitalists and the state becomes far closer. Rudolf Hilferding in his opus Das Finanzkapital had talked of a “personal union” between banks and industrial capital and the formation on this basis of a “financial oligarchy”, and had suggested a similar “personal union” between the “financial oligarchy” and the State.
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Cluster bomb opponents ‘appalled’ by Biden becision to send banned weapons to Ukraine
President Joe Biden has reportedly given final approval for the transfer of U.S. cluster munitions to Ukraine, ignoring warnings from human rights groups and progressive lawmakers who underscored the indiscriminate weapons’ devastating impacts on civilians immediately upon use and far into the future.
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The future is now: Rethinking public ownership
Ursula Huws reflects on the history of ‘prefigurative’ approaches and community ownership models in the UK – and how these can be used to rethink public ownership amid the current cost-of-living crisis.
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More than meets the silk press: Kamala Harris and U.S. imperialism
Kamala Harris wants to be your aunty. The Biden Administration’s controversial Vice President is often presented as either an incompetent sidekick, or a lovable big sister figure who “stays with her hair done”.
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Failed ‘counteroffensive’ in Ukraine as NATO prepares for summit, pressures Global South to toe a pro-war line
Monthly military situation report for June 2023, by Dmitri Kovalevich, in Ukraine, June 29, 2023.
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The rice bowl of the Chinese people is held firmly in their hands: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
In 2017, the World Bank determined that the income threshold for poverty, which had been set at $1.90 per day, was far too low. They set the new poverty line at $2.15 per day, which accounted for over 700 million people.
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The Supreme Court and political corruption
The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.