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Why I did not vote
Reflecting on the recent Kenyan elections, radical activist and poet Lena Anyuolo explains why she did not vote. How could anyone vote in elections that offered no alternative? Anyuolo explains, ‘Politicians crawl out like cockroaches from dark holes every five years; fat and destructive, ready to unleash more destruction.’
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Idaho’s Far Right suffers election loss to 18-year-old climate activist
High school senior Shiva Rajbhandari won elected office in Boise, defeating an incumbent school board trustee backed by local extremists.
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Saad Hariri and the collapse of Lebanon
The Syrian regime-change war and Lebanon’s economic collapse happened under Saad Hariri’s watch, but the Future Movement leader is seldom mentioned for the pivotal role he played in Lebanon’s unravelling.
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Why China’s first solar-powered, semi-satellite drone is a big deal
In a big step toward green development, China has built its first solar-powered large unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Sex work: a contemporary identity rooted in labour
Following Labour Day, this column explores the origin of the phrase sex work and how sex workers are an important part of the labour movement.
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U.S. still fails to grant visas for Russian delegation to attend UNGA
Russia still waits for the U.S. to act on its “legal obligation” and provide the Russian delegation with the necessary visas to attend the UN General Assembly session.
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We need socialist feminism. Join Bread and Roses to fight for It
Join “Bread and Roses”—part of an international grouping of socialist feminists in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, France, and more who have been on the frontlines of struggles against exploitation and oppression across the world—to build the fight in our workplaces, schools, and in the streets here in the U.S. to defend our rights and fight for a future that’s ours.
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Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy
It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.
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The road to fascism: How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe
As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe should sever all links with “Russia’s propaganda machine” were taken seriously by the Italian government.
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Political prisoners unite the British Raj and ‘New India’
Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.
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The throne behind the power – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on the loss and replacement of a UK monarch.
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Re-embedding the economy to rethink (sustainable) development
This famous sentence from Joseph Ki-Zerbo could be translated as ‘we do not enforce development; we develop ourselves.’ However, development paradigms have been largely influenced by external views, mainly those of Western countries.
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Giant mobile billboard campaign for Julian Assange goes viral and will keep on truckin’ round the Nation’s Capital
What started as a one-man “shame-on-you” protest against the Justice Department—launched by comedian-activist Randy Credico—has gone viral as “Buy-a-Billboard-for-Julian” Campaign supported by activists worldwide. Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ben Cohen, pledged: “I’ll Match Each and Every Donation to The Julian Assange Mobile Billboard Campaign”
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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.
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Background checks, algorithms, and the re-making of the abnormal
A great deal of attention has been paid to the problems of carceral injustice and the increasing use of AI for things such as predictive policing.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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Africa struggles with neo-colonialism
After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was under great pressure even before the pandemic, due to new trade arrangements, falling commodity prices and severe environmental stress.
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Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to U.S. corporations on Wall Street
Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Volodymyr Zelensky opened the New York Stock Exchange telling Wall Street his country is “open” for foreign corporations to exploit it with $400 billion in state selloffs.
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Journalists demand that the Mirotvorets Website be classifies as a terrorist organization and closed down
On 6 September 2022, a conference organized by the Anti-Repression Foundation entitled “Information Gestapo: Ukrainian nationalist website Mirotvorets lists are used to suppress free speech and repress journalists” took place in Moscow”.
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Abortion foes target their next Supreme Court fight
The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.