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U.S. woos India’s far-right PM Modi to help wage new cold war on China
The U.S. government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn’t care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.
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U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia and China
Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.
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Wagner head to move to Belarus, fighters not to be prosecuted: Kremlin
Fighters who did not partake in the mutiny will sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry and those who did participate won’t be prosecuted in recognition of their service.
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Glastonbury’s cancelling of a powerful film about Jeremy Corbyn
When Truth Becomes Silence
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Dark history: How the U.S. experimented on its own people
For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the U.S. on its own people and soil.
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And then Biden blew it …
The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.
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Canadian sanctions on Russia: Powerless rage with a boomerang effect
Canada’s recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID supplies when it was grounded in February 2022 at Pearson Airport (it was forced to pay a fee for every minute, despite being trapped there), is another sanction among many others.
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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Insurance industry refuses policies to those most in need as climate change unfolds
State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs.
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On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India
It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.
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Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.
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Why should the decision of the British government to send depleted uranium to Ukraine be condemned?
The British government failed to review history and acknowledge the damage that has been caused to countries and their people through the use of depleted uranium.
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Can the European leg of the Triad break free from the Atlantic alliance?: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2023)
The No Cold War briefing above asks an important question: is an independent European foreign policy possible?
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New U.S. anti-immigrant measures: Militarization, and discrimination watches over the border
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse, but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side.
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Learning from David Graeber
We ask a number of activists and academics to tell us what David Graeber’s work meant to them and the salient message it still carries today.
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Europe – fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions
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On the dialectics of socialism and western Marxisms’ purity fetish
Gabriel Rockhill “one of my favorite jokes that I’ve heard about the socialist project is the following: socialism looks good on paper, but in reality… you just get invaded by the United States.”
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Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.
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On the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack
On June 4/5 the Ukrainian military launched its long announced counteroffensive in southeast Ukraine. Ten days later there is no significant progress.
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False witnesses and sinister plots
For months, mainstream media across the Western world—in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network—have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over.