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How Britain started Vietnam War
In the post-World War II period, Britain waged a number of covert wars in every corner of the world, as its financial and military clout rapidly withered.
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The revolutionary fire in the people starts with a song: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2024)
In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.
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Canada’s Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony
Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.
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The Bloody Rise of the West – Part I
ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.
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Another war diary entry
Critical cultural historical perspective is not easy to obtain.
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The criminality of unilateral sanctions
DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions.
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China calls for respect of Venezuelan elections, criticizes attempts to intervene in nation’s internal matters
The Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized U.S.-led efforts to spread misinformation about the Venezuelan presidential elections held in July.
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She was brutally killed before she could write her story for the World: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)
Following the the murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata, health workers, medical unions, and women’s movements have mobilised across the country to decry rampant gender-based violence and dangerous working conditions.
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‘International Law obligations’ – Namibia blocks ship carrying ‘explosive material’ to Israel
“As such, it was necessary to engage authorities in Namibia on issues of concern to ensure our decisions and actions domestically are aligned with our obligations in terms of international law and our policy stance of many years on Palestine.”
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The future of China, the danger of a collapse of human civilization and the need of a “5th International”
Samir Amin did not believe that the Chinese regime is a socialist one. “I will not say China is socialist, I will not say China is capitalist,” he said in a speech at a prestigious University of Peking.
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China issues guidelines to ramp up green transition of economic, social development
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council have unveiled a set of guidelines to ramp up green transition in all areas of economic and social development.
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Where are safe spaces for women in India?
Our country must move beyond symbolic representations of women like Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, and instead offer genuine respect and equality.
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The Occupation of East Asia
Kyle Ferrana details the brutal legacy of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific.
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How U.S. Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism
U.S. Big Tech corporations are like the feudal landlords of medieval Europe. These Silicon Valley monopolies own the digital land that the global economy is built on, and are charging higher and higher rents to use their privatized infrastructure.
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Thousands hit streets across India demanding safe spaces and justice for women
The call for the nationwide vigil to “reclaim the night” was given by the left groups following the rape and murder of a medical staff on duty in Kolkata last week.
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Behind India’s Iron Curtain
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
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Thailand aborts the colour revolution
The curtain has come down on the abortive colour revolution in Thailand with the country’s Constitutional Court ordering the dissolution on Wednesday of the anti-establishment opposition party Move Forward, widely regarded as a U.S. proxy.
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Defending national sovereignty and delinking. A question of class struggle and rights
Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.
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What’s behind regime change in Bangladesh
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Did a wrestler’s battle against sexual harassment in Indian sports cost her an Olympic medal?
Disqualified after becoming first Indian women wrestler to enter the finals in Olympics, Phogat along with her colleagues have been waging a protracted battle against the sexual harassment in country’s wrestling federation