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African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.

Atilio A. Boron: “I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa.”

Mohammed is still grieving, and he cannot help thinking about what life would have been if Tamim was still alive, disassembling and reassembling his toys, his head filled with beautiful dreams.

One of the latest covers of the magazine The Economist carries a headline “Peak China”. This, as its name suggests, is a claim that while during the last seven decades China’s has enjoyed a peaceful “rise”, specifically in relation to the U.S., this has now ended. It was the latest of decades long wildly inaccurate predictions regarding China.

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.

On Friday, the White House announced the most reckless and dangerous escalation of its involvement in the war with Russia to date, that it has decided to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets and send the nuclear-capable planes to the battlefield.

A preliminary injunction issued this week forbids officials from forcing people charged with low-level offenses to remain in jail because they cannot afford bail.

On Swiss neutrality.

An international team of researchers led by Chinese scholars has made another groundbreaking discovery on the surface of Mars.

Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.

During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.

Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

Although she’s been dead for almost six decades, it looks like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is still getting under the skin of right-wingers. Just two weeks after it was installed, a historical marker commemorating her birth in Concord, N.H., has been demolished on the order of Republican state officials.

An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.

The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.

Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.

The Chinese-brokered agreement emerged in retaliation to the U.S. as the latter continues to wage a series of provocations aimed at destabilizing China’s domestic stability with regard to Taiwan.

Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population.

The Grayzone has obtained video recordings of well-connected figures within Moldova’s political and business community openly testifying to rank corruption within the country’s government and economy, while outlining schemes to enrich Western investors for an appropriate fee.

It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the world.