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U.S.-Russia talks may be the last chance
It’s crunch time in Russia-U.S. relations. High-level talks starting Monday will determine the shape of world security for decades to come, observes Tony Kevin.
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Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity
Cuba puts people before profits – showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.
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Nothing natural about this disaster
Profit over people kills workers in the Midwest.
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Women in the Haitian Revolution
Black women in the French-speaking world have been marginalized throughout history and even if they did not lack autonomy within the family unit (which often they did), they certainly suffered as a result of their colonial status. This often created double oppression.
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When comic books threatened the U.S.A. (and the world)
Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today.
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Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law.
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Kazakhstan turns into graveyard for U.S. diplomacy
The Kazakh Ministry of Health issued an innocuous disclaimer today denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.”
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Classical music and the color line
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
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Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape
Russia and China’s announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities.
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21st Century U.S. coups and attempted coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the U.S., working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over U.S. corporate interests. U.S. organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon.
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Ill-treatment of Stan Swamy in jail should ‘shake foundation of democracy’: Fellow prisoner
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.
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There is no Nobel Prize in economics
Let’s debunk a myth. There is no “Nobel Prize in Economics”. On Nov 27, 1895, when Alfred Nobel signed his will, he left five prizes in alphabetical order to: chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Economics is declared after the Panchapandavas above.
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Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos
The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher-order.
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The highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental right of every human being: The First Newsletter (2022)
As we enter the new year almost two years after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the official death toll from COVID-19 sits just below 5.5 million people.
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South Africa: Clover workers call for nationalisation
Striking workers fear that corporate changes at the dairy giant will lead to reduced local production and increased imports of Israeli products.
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Unlocking U.S. sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba
Beijing is slowly unpicking Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.
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The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor
The triple day thesis of motherhood is conceptualized as a mother who engages in the reproductive work of childbearing and childrearing (the single day), in addition to waged work (the double day) and self-reproductive work (the triple day).
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When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches
Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.
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Yet another contradiction of capitalism
In the United States there are still four million persons who remain unemployed compared to before the pandemic; and yet the Biden administration’s attempt to stimulate the economy has already run into a crisis with the re-emergence of inflation not just in that country but elsewhere in the capitalist world as well.
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A lesson from Simón Bolívar: ‘To Hesitate is to Perish’
Speech in remembrance of the One Hundred and Ninety-first Anniversary of the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s passage to immortality, on December 17, 1830, celebrated at Rivadavia Park in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the monument to Simón Bolívar.