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Gas, Gaza, and Western imperialism
Control of Mediterranean gas fields is not the reason for the current attack on Gaza, but the theft of Palestine’s natural resources has long been a goal of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its Western sponsors.
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Time to reclaim black revolutionary politics
Mikayla Tillery reviews Kevin Okoth’s Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. She delves into Okoth’s incisive critique of Afro-pessimism, Negritude, and the academic misinterpretations of Franz Fanon. Tillery discusses Okoth’s arguments against the idea that Marxism is Eurocentric by examining the historical suppression of Marxism in Kenya. She reveals how he highlights the contributions of black revolutionaries and reframes Marxism as a potent force for decolonisation and anti-imperialism.
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Anne and Joe argue about the child-killing murder robot
“The Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to defend itself!”
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Running the Red Gauntlet–Russia is negotiating with the Houthis for Red Sea passage of oil cargoes defying U.S./EU sanction
Russia is negotiating with the Houthis of Yemen to protect Russian oil cargoes moving through the Red Sea for delivery to India and China, the principal destinations of Russian oil currently traversing the waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.
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The vacuity of the free trade argument
The fact that unrestricted trade creates domestic unemployment is quite obvious, and should be especially obvious to third world people who have had the historical experience of deindustrialisation during colonial rule.
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“Feed the people, eat the rich!”: Group wearing Jeff Bezos masks ransacks Whole Foods
On Friday, December 15th, “a “merry band of miscreants” entered a Whole Foods in NYC, lifted a bunch of groceries, and walked out in Jeff Bezos masks,” reported independent journalist Talia Jane on Twitter/X.
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We need to act fast to stop the situation in Gaza from triggering a wider war in the Middle East
The danger signals of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East are now flashing red.
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Refaat Alareer: Literature as resistance
His efforts to open space in global literature for Palestinian writers were a contribution to the struggle against apartheid.
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The Red Sea is now the second front in the Gaza war
John Rees asks whether the Gaza war will engulf the entire Middle East.
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The suffocation of democracy in India
Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.
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Blood money: The top ten politicians taking the most Israel lobby cash
As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans).
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Shipping firms cease deliveries to “Israel” or reroutes around Africa
The Singaporean shipping company, ONE, declares that it would be ceasing all shipments to the Occupation’s ports, according to reports by Israeli media.
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Moves of UK and U.S. over Chagos expose true nature of ‘values-based alliance’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.
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Israel should ‘level Gaza and make it look like Auschwitz’, says official
David Azoulay, head of northern Israeli town, calls for besieged enclave to become a museum that ‘should resemble’ the extermination camp in Poland.
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‘A crazy system’: How arbitration returns abusive guards to New York prisons
Over a 12-year span, three out of every four state correctional officers fired for abuse or covering it up got their jobs back.
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World faces days of “moral decay” as Israel bulldozes hospital grounds, detains more doctors
Israel carries out unprecedented attacks against health workers and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, bulldozing hospital grounds and detaining doctors.
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Why Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as U.S. proxy
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also […]
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Scholz’s low blow: Telling Orban to ‘get coffee’ during Ukraine vote
The German chancellor has taken credit for a cunning coffee break tactic, which saw the European Union voting to advance accession talks with Ukraine.
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When genocide is no longer genocide
Some of Israel’s defenders want to do away with the concept of genocide in hopes of washing away its war crimes. Any redefinition would allow the U.S. to disappear the many genocides it has committed domestically and internationally.
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A last day in the life of a mother from Gaza
It was the 37th morning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, when Hana, 39, woke up and started acting in an unusual manner.