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As U.S. cluster munitions arrived in Ukraine, a bi-partisan vote struck down an effort to stop the internationally banned weapons’ transfer. Meanwhile, every House Democrat and a majority of Republicans voted down a measure to strip $300 million of Ukraine aid from the NDAA.

A rise in highly systematic, typically immigrant, child labour is being abetted by state legislation in the U.S., and must be resisted, argues John Clarke.

I think top leaders in Washington are using green-energy pipe dreams to distract us from the reality that they have given up altogether on reducing U.S. fossil fuel use.

The fight inside the U.S. pits much of the business community against Biden and his ‘neoconservative’ foreign-policy advisers.

June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.

Katherine Connelly outlines how the events and context of their times shaped the partnership and ideas of Marx and Engels.

If fracked gas leaks, even a little, “it’s as bad as coal,” said the lead author. “It can’t be considered a good bridge, or substitute.”

In Reality It Resulted Largely from Kyiv’s Destruction of Eastern Ukraine’s Economy Under Neo-Liberal Economic Policies Pushed by Washington Since the 1990s.

The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors.

INDIA and other third world countries can morally justify their being a part of G-20 alongside the imperialist powers, only if they raise common and pressing problems of the third world as a whole at G-20 meetings.

In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The fox is in charge of the chook house. Dracula is guarding the blood bank. And the CEO of one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world will preside over the big United Nations climate conference at the end of this year. 

As unrest continues the United States-backed government of Dina Boluarte commits atrocious human rights violations.

The late Mutulu Shakur and other Black radicals were responsible for improving the lives of millions of people in the U.S. The counter revolution ended that period of progress, but the political crisis they created forced systemic change on a grand scale.

On June 26—the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture—the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, released the final report of her technical visit to the United States, which included unprecedented access to the Guantanamo detention facility.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically rejects the entry into Guantanamo Bay, on July 5, 2023, of a nuclear-powered submarine that remained until July 8 at the U.S. military base located there, which constitutes a provocative escalation by the United States, whose political or strategic motives are unknown.

An Oklahoma state official is facing impeachment calls following his statement that urged teachers to cover the 1921 massacre but not “say that the skin color determined it”.

Oleg Nesterenko: “Moscow has really threatened the status of the American dollar on the international stage, and therefore the whole American economy behind it.”

Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.

France never really came to terms with its colonial heritage or its colonial mindset.