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Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan embark on their next excellent adventure later this week with President Joe Biden–this time to the Middle East, with Israel the first stop.

I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan.

It may seem strange to invite an economist to give a keynote speech to a conference of the social sciences. Economists have been characterized as autistic and anti-social in the popular press for good reason.

Samir Amin locates Cuba within the Latin American context, and therefrom, it acquires much of its specificity to him–but not all. While Cuba is the only country to challenge the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America, or at least was, until Venezuela and Nicaragua came onto the scene; it is not only anti-imperialist, but also Communist.

In Florida and elsewhere, Republican lawmakers are using faulty research to deny young people access to vital gender-affirming care.

Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program.

San Francisco voted on June 7 to recall its district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a reformer who had challenged the traditional “lock ’em up” policies of big-city prosecutors.

A survey by the Moscow Sinergiya University Analysis Center confirmed that eight out of 10 Russians support the idea of relaunching brands from the Soviet period, such as the Moskvich.

Marxist, Nationalist, Feminist – these are the words that describe not only the political convictions but also the artwork of Frida Kahlo. Although born as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón outside of Mexico City in 1907, Kahlo eventually shortened her name and frequently told people that she was born in 1910. This was the year that widespread political unrest finally culminated in the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

In two days, the Ukrainian army’s terror shelling of residential areas in the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic), some of which was carried out with weapons supplied by the West, has killed four children in the Donbass.

Can the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka be replaced without recourse to article 82 of the existing Constitution? In other words, can it be replaced extra-legally and extra constitutionally? Yes, it is possible in certain circumstances.

In the wake of massive protests in Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced his resignation to pave way for an all-party government.

After Sakhalin-2, Moscow also plans to nationalise Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project by ousting U.S. and Japanese shareholders. But Moscow will make an exception for India so that OVL which holds 20% stake will remain & continue to work.

In wars like the present one, politics on the home front cannot be permitted to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In the U.S. and NATO campaign, the Russian oligarchs and their businesses are targets and also weapons of the plan for regime change in the Kremlin.

Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime.

Lukashenko had predicted the highly coincidental timing that suggests that the current strife in Uzbekistan has been orchestrated as a means to eventually lead to further destabilization along Russia’s southern border.

That’s what’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.

Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.

When the news spread a couple weeks ago that San Diego scholar and activist Mike Davis was going on palliative care, it generated an outpouring of support online. And for good reason.

Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath.