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Remembering Rachel Corrie twenty years on
Rachel Corrie, an American Palestine-solidarity activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer twenty years ago this month. She was murdered by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while attempting to defend a Palestinian home from demolition in Rafah, a city in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Bush-era neocons should shut the fuck up about Iraq (and everything else)
David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war.
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A sane voice amidst the madness
Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia, writes Joe Lauria.
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The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies
Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the U.S., is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing. I remembered his words while reading the recent startling headlines that China has become the world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies evaluated by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
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Birth again the dream of Global peace and mutual respect
On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’.
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Karl Marx: Before all else a revolutionist
On the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, Katherine Connelly discusses his revolutionary contribution.
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Yes, the U.S. gov’t did bailout the banks. What would a people’s bailout look like?
The U.S. is divesting from working people and investing in banks and venture capitalists, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Canada’s ‘China syndrome’
The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.
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This is how police and courts steal from poor people
I need to report a theft. Nassau County law enforcement stole $500 from my friend, Sylvester “Sonny” Jackson.
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From Georgetown to Langley: The controversial connection between a prestigious university and the CIA
If you have ever wondered, “where do America’s spies come from?” the answer is quite possibly the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University.
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International Women’s Alliance uplifts militant grassroots struggles in first U.S.-based conference
Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of a worldwide grassroots women’s network called the International Women’s Alliance, as well as help strengthen its fledgling U.S. chapter.
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Russia denies downing U.S. Reaper, Pentagon declines disclosing if armed
The U.S. summons the Russian ambassador to Washington to protest the crash of a U.S. MQ-9 drone into the Black Sea.
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Secret COINTELPRO plot to infiltrate and destroy the American Indian Movement: “We wanted them to kill each other”—FBI agent admits after 5 decades of silence
February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890.
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The U.S. blockade and its effects on Cuban medicine
The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.
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Arms imports to Europe surge despite Global decline
As a result of military aid from the U.S. and many European states, Ukraine became the 3rd biggest importer of major arms during 2022.
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Marx and crisis of the dead tigress
‘Metabolic rift’ Marx’s prophecy at work..
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Why the U.S. banking system is breaking up
Economist Michael Hudson responds to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Silvergate, and explains the similarities with the 2008 financial crash and the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
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Sergey Glazyev: ‘The road to financial multipolarity will be long and rocky’
In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia’s top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow’s slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing.
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Leftist parties intensify campaign to maintain Swiss neutrality
The Communist Party and the Swiss Party of Labor (PST-POP) have made neutrality a key plank of their campaign in the upcoming elections. The political leadership of the country is being accused of compromising the policy of neutrality under the influence of NATO and EU.
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The betrayers of Julian Assange
“I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful.” – John Pilger