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Why Niger declared U.S. Military presence in its territory illegal
Niger declared the U.S. military deployment in its territory “illegal” on Saturday, March 16, after a U.S. delegation allegedly threatened “retaliation” against the largest country in West Africa for its ties with Russia and Iran.
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Assange in plea deal talks
The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.
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What is the Dialectical Materialist Ontology?
Objective dialectics, i.e., the dialectical materialist ontology, first and foremost holds that the world is dominated by change and interconnection, “nothing is eternal but eternally changing.”
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El Panal Commune breaches gap between City and Countryside
Caracas communards and campesino organizations are building ties through fair-price food distribution.
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New York Times readers are the least informed ones
One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the ‘paper of record’ would be informed about an important issue which in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.
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Capitalism’s permanent horror
Government officials said that they were interested in killing only “terrorists”. But the “terrorists” were supported by most of the population, whom the authorities in fact considered collaborators and fair game.
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Washington’s New Cold War: U.S. Special Forces train Taiwan troops in drone warfare
The Green Berets are training Taiwanese forces on the use of military drones including the Black Hornet Nano, like those being used by U.S.-advised forces in Ukraine.
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‘We call for the respect of Haitian popular sovereignty and an end to Western imperialist intervention’
After months of the U.S., Core Group, and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti that they are now calling a “Multinational Security Service,” ex-de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately-held position.
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Israel is starving Palestinians to death while the world watches
Israel has deliberately slowed the flow of aid to Gaza with hundreds of trucks stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border at a time when over two dozen Palestinian children have died of malnutrition.
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The man in whose shadow Netanyahu walks
Israel is unlikely to stop its assault on Gaza without massive pressure, and the reasons are rooted in the history of Zionism, argues Chris Bambery.
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‘Another assault on the African (Black) youth’; BAP-Baltimore and Ujima People’s Progress Party denounce Maryland’s unjust juvenile justice bill
The Black Alliance For Peace Baltimore Citywide Alliance and The Ujima People’s Progress Party of Maryland strongly condemns Maryland House of Delegates for advancing House Bill 814.
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Making sense of the interregnum since 2007-9
There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.
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Why are U.S. lawmakers dead set on banning TikTok?
Past efforts to ban the enormously popular app in the United States have failed. Recent success could be linked to the popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.
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Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again
The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the U.S. are the hope for the future of the world..
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Billionaires go bunkers
The year is 2070. A global catastrophe—climate change, nuclear winter, civil war: pick your poison—recently ended civilisation and opened a new chapter in your life.
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The booksellers’ revolt
The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.
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House votes against TikTok—and for more Cold War
A bipartisan effort to effectively ban the social media network TikTok in the United States has taken a great leap forward.
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In the midst of genocide in Gaza–The legacy of Rachel Corrie lives on
During her time in Gaza, Corrie stayed with a family in Rafah. In her letters home, she referred to the difference between there and here as a “virtual portal into luxury”.
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Queen Anne’s Bounty: the Church of England struggles with its slavery connections
The paltry new fund embraced by the Church of England is nowhere near what real justice demands: handing over the estimated £1.3 billion derived from trafficked Africans to their descendants, explains STEVE CUSHION.
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Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new U.S. regime change scheme
As Venezuela prepares to head to the polls in July, the U.S. has already started drumming up suspicion and doubt around the electoral process.