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Venezuela immunizes its population against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine
Last week, Venezuela signed an agreement with Cuba for the purchase of 12 million doses of Abdala, just three days after the country announced and celebrated the success of its locally developed anti-COVID-19 vaccine
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The CPC 100 years on: Understanding China’s contemporary political economy
Today, July 1, 2021, is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Celebrations throughout China and commemorations worldwide are taking place today in recognition of the Party’s leadership and its incredible legacy.
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Freedom Rider: The terrible origins of July 4th
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.
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Cuba’s vaccine shield and the five monopolies that structure the World: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)
In 1869, at the age of fifteen, José Martí and his young friends published a magazine in Cuba called La Patria Libre (‘The Free Homeland’), which adopted a strong position against Spanish imperialism. The first and only issue of the magazine carried Martí’s poem, ‘Abdala’.
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U.S. again bombs Nations on other side of the World in “self-defense”
The U.S. is again illegally bombing nations on the other side of the planet which it has invaded and occupied and branded this murderous aggression as “defensive”.
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How is U.S. pop culture used against Venezuela?
How does U.S. hostility against Venezuela reflect itself in pop culture? We investigate in our latest video with Tatuy Tv.
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Chinese Provinces curb private schools, encourage public education
While Hunan and Jiangsu will cap the number of students attending private academic institutions, Sichuan has stopped approving such facilities altogether.
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Brazil suspends Covaxin contract as scandal becomes too hot for Bolsonaro
An invoice for advance payment of $45 million raised by the offshore partner of Bharat Biotech is certain to become the reason for the impending cancellation of the contract.
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A crumb from the G-7 table
The G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries.
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Hundreds of more unmarked graves discovered in residential school in Canada
The Cowessess First Nation said that at least 600 unmarked graves have been discovered on the grounds of what used to be the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
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Capitalism is on life support. We have a decision to make
Canadians won’t settle for a return to how things were before the pandemic.
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The dishonest blame game of retail store closures and crime
Reporters who parrot corporate claims of out-of-control theft play into a narrative that benefits big business and perpetuates carceral policies.
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Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?
As hunger and food insecurity increases globally, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has been working for the last decade to strengthen local food production and ensure food sovereignty in the face of sanctions.
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‘Turning right, repressing left’: How Venezuela’s Maduro shifted course
In the face of a prolonged and deep economic and political crisis, Venezuela’s government has embarked on a “turn to the right” in economic policy, while resorting to repression against the left.
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Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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The imminent coup in Peru
Legal maneuvers and delays, presented by the far-right, are pushing Peru closer to a coup with each passing day. It’s been 20 days since Peru’s June 6th election, and the authorities have not yet proclaimed the winner, Pedro Castillo.
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10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear
The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.
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Socialism increasingly seen as ‘badge of pride’ in the United States
While a majority of U.S. adults still have more positive than negative perceptions of capitalism, less than half of the country’s 18 to 34-year-olds view the profit-maximizing market system favorably, and the attractiveness of socialism continues to increase among people over 35, according to a new poll released Friday.
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How China’s idols are working hard to hardly work
At a time when seemingly everyone is working more for less, why should idols be any exception?
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The thin blue lies behind crime wave hype
2021 as the city, and nation, begin to climb out of a pandemic that saw mass economic and social fallout—to say nothing of the lives lost. A historic, once-in-a-lifetime worldwide event destabilized the lives of countless people, and also led to an undeniable rise in shootings and homicide across the country.