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Argentinians protest visit from head of U.S. Southern Command
The protesters denounced the neocolonial role of the U.S. general and the White House towards Latin America and the Caribbean, exemplified in the military command organization SOUTHCOM.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee cravenly rubber stamps CIA plan for more coups, assassinations, drone strikes, kidnappings and torture to save America from fabricated foreign enemies
March 28 Hearings Provided a Platform for the CIA’s “Nice Guy” Public Face, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Violent Coup Plotters and Regime Changers That it Supports.
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100 days of Lula’s presidency: what has changed in Brazil since January 1st?
New directions in politics generate expectations due to the contrast to Bolsonaro’s management.
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How China can prevent climate catastrophe? Moving humanity toward global ecological civilization
As the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report tells us, there is still a chance to keep warming at no more than the 1.5°C target, but tipping points to climate catastrophes much worse than we are witnessing now will kick in if this target is breached. It is now crystal clear that ongoing wars, in particular the Ukraine war, create huge obstacles to the global cooperation necessary for any chance of meeting the 1.5°C warming target. Following the lead of China’s peace plan, we should support the call for an immediate ceasefire in the Ukraine war, and for all parties involved to negotiate.
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Co-opting the revolutionary history of MLK
I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?
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The French Left and the ongoing workers revolt
As workers prepare for a long drawn struggle, John Mullen argues now is the time to call for a general strike.
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The “Powell Memo” and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many
By the early 1970s, the global revolutionary tide of socialist and national liberation struggles was at its apex, and the tide was washing over the U.S., with expanding and increasingly militant social movements and political organizations.
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Trump’s idling plane got more TV coverage than Biden cutting healthcare for 15 million
Last spring, the Biden administration and a Democratic House approved a policy that would kick 15 million people off of Medicaid.
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The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
No, it’s not about another unknown Bunuel film. But if he had lived and knew about Finland’s election results, he could write a script and direct something similar.
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Clare Daly: Europe has become the tail of the U.S. dog, shot itself in its feet
In this episode, member of the European Parliament, Clare Daly, shares the struggles that Europe is facing, and her thoughts on how Europe has been under increasing U.S. pressure to worsen relations with China, against the interests of people in Europe.
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Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!
The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.
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China’s president on Ukraine conflict: all sides involved should assume responsibility
The president of China, Xi Jinping, commented to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, that all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine “must assume their responsibilities” and “create the conditions” for a political solution and avoid escalation.
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Washington says “journalism is not a crime” while working to criminalize journalism
After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the U.S.-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let’s do it anyway; the barrel’s right here, and I really hate these particular fish.
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U.S. media cheer as France forces old people to work
“The Party Is Ending for French Retirees.” That’s the headline the Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) went with just days before French President Emmanuel Macron invoked a special article of the constitution to bypass the National Assembly and enshrine an increase in the retirement age in national law.
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West vs the rest: World opposes sanctions, only U.S. & Europe support them
The UN Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly to condemn sanctions. The only countries that expressed support for unilateral coercive measures were the U.S., UK, EU member states, Georgia, and Ukraine.
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U.S. push to strip China’s ‘Developing Country’ status an attack on development itself
The U.S. attempt to diminish China’s economic success is a bipartisan project, and a unanimous congressional vote to strip China of developing nation status is just the latest act in the aggressive but futile effort.
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87% of service workers in the U.S. South were injured on the job last year
Southern service workers allege that South Carolina’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration discriminates against Black workers.
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Biden administration refuses to condemn Israel storming Al-Aqsa mosque, blocks Security Council statement
The Biden State Department refused to condemn Israel’s storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, and blocked a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the raids.
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Canadian ambassador okays terrorist bombing of blogger
What do you call it when a Canadian ambassador justifies the placing of a bomb in a café to kill a prominent member of the media and which injures dozens of others? Diplomacy?
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Women hold up 76.2% of the sky: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2023)
The idea of ‘equal pay for equal work’ was established in the ILO’s Equal Remuneration Convention (1951) in recognition of the fact that women had always worked in industrial factories, increasingly so during the Second World War.