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Moves of UK and U.S. over Chagos expose true nature of ‘values-based alliance’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the “vital” U.S.-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia.
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Scholz’s low blow: Telling Orban to ‘get coffee’ during Ukraine vote
The German chancellor has taken credit for a cunning coffee break tactic, which saw the European Union voting to advance accession talks with Ukraine.
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Stuttering economy betrays ever-present crisis in capitalism
WHEN an economy shrinks, as did the British economy last month, it triggers an alarm bell to all those who live not by their labour but by ours.
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Why Reimagine Soviet Georgia?
We must redefine Soviet Georgia beyond mere nostalgia—not to consign it to the past but to invigorate it, making it a dynamic force in shaping new visions for the world.
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Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.
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Sweden is giving Elon Musk a taste of union strength
Let’s hope Swedish workers win and workers in all countries where Tesla operates take note and act accordingly.
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UK Special Forces secretly operated in Ukraine, says Polish journalist
Special forces operators of UK were embedded with Ukrainian troops in the early days of the conflict, Declassified UK reported on Wednesday, citing the newly published book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza—our political class only pays lip service to human rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
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West sabotaged Ukraine peace deal with Russia, admit Zelensky official and Germany’s ex leader
Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.
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Doctors in Italy strike against proposed pension cuts
Some 85 percent of staff of the National Health Service and private medical facilities stayed away from work.
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Propaganda war: Pro-Israel trolls are mobbing X’s (Twitter’s) community note
Almost as important as its military campaign for Israel is its battle to control its public image.
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‘Hell on Earth’ returns to Gaza as Israel extends bombing to the south
Over 100 solidarity actions planned in Britain on Saturday.
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SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party
Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party.
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Padua burns for Giulia
Fifteen thousand people marched through the streets after a young woman’s murder. ‘Femicide is not a crime of passion, it is a crime of power. It is a state murder, because the state does not defend us and does not protect us.’
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Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro
NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to U.S. global hegemony.
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Split on the Left: Berlin Bulletin No. 218 – November 21 2023
Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag deputies, has quit the party and announced their decision to found a new party in January.
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Washington Post lifts the veil on CIA’s shadow war against Russia waged since 2014
In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter.
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German Constitutional Court rules climate change fund is unconstitutional—A signal for further social cuts
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling on the federal government’s Climate Change Fund is not a legal, but a political decision. It reduces the previously agreed budget by €60 billion in one fell swoop and is a signal for further social spending cuts.
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A rose for Gramsci
Ninety-seven years back, via Giovanni Battista Morgagni, number 25, was a more modest lodging house, home of a quietly discreet pensionante called Antonio Gramsci.
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PiS off! But Tusk’s coalition is a Faustian pact for the Polish left
Lewica politicians must use their leverage for women, workers and minorities, says Ewa Pospieszyńska, or risk even greater threats from the right.