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Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela
As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.
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Beware of flying on commercial airlines in racist USA
On July 15, in an Instagram post, Terrell Davis spoke out after he was handcuffed and escorted off a United Airlines plane by the FBI and law enforcement.
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Global South sees U.S. Congress hail Israeli killer of 39,000 of their people mostly women and kids
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.’s mighty weapons of mass destruction.
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Sending unarmed responders instead of police: What we’ve learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
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Majdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence
The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
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The spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
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This is the Haitian people’s chance to break their chains again
After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.
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How a giant corporate cover-up poisoned the planet—and everyone on it
In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.
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Democratic involution
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
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The presence of evil
I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.
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Wang Yi: The historic step from peaceful coexistence to a shared future for humanity
With China having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, on July 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi published an important article outlining the historical progression from the Five Principles to President Xi Jinping’s vision of a shared future for humanity and their interrelationship of continuity, inheritance, application and development.
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The Country of the Rust Belt and the Broken Road: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2024)
From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.
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The profile of environmental collapse–forest fires tell the story
Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.
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Labour versus International law
The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
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Netanyahu’s speech was as American as it gets
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
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Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
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The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value
Every year, Pew Research publishes a study on the U.S. population’s political priorities.
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China brokers a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups
BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.
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More poverty for the poor
Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.
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American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza says IDF snipers shoot toddlers
‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake,’ said Dr. Mark Perlmutter.