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Murder on Embassy Row—46 years on: Remembering the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt
On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank in Washington, D.C.
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The real U.S. agenda in Africa is hegemony
Forget development. Washington’s primary interest in Africa today is keeping the Chinese and Russians out.
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FBI spied on and harassed Black revolutionary who was killed and set on fire
The FBI harassed Black revolutionary Darren Seals and compiled a 900-page report on his organizing against racism and police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, birthplace of Black Lives Matter. He was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car.
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India’s gaffe at Samarkand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal.
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Asylum, migration and U.S. foreign policy
Immigration rules are often determined by U.S. foreign policy. Citizens of nations under U.S. attack, such as Venezuela, are made eligible for asylum. Haitians suffer under U.S. dictates but are deported and returned to the hell that Washington created.
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America’s open wound
The CIA is not your friend.
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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars
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Inflation, the Fed and workers
The U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is supposed to have a dual mandate of “maximum employment and price stability.” However, a close look at its policies since 1980 have shown it very willing to sacrifice the former for the latter.
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Corporate media is trying to convince people student debt forgiveness is bad
By trying to convince voters that debt relief will cost them, and that a more egalitarian society is impossible, corporate media are defending America’s ruling class from an educated working class.
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Railroad CEOs were paid over $200 million as workers suffered
Rail execs defend themselves by claiming their skyrocketing profits do not reflect “any contributions by labor.”
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Biden keeps pledging direct U.S. war with China over Taiwan
The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers.
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“The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann
We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing in the United States.
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Many reasons why price cap on Russian oil exports cannot work
The United States and its allies are trying to impose new restrictions on the Russian economy, but like attempts so far, this one too looks fated to fail.
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It’s time to call it what it is: A capitalism-induced ecological crisis
One-third of Pakistan is under water. Record heat waves blanket the globe driving up temperatures beyond what humans can survive. Polar glaciers are melting much faster than scientists predicted. Droughts, fires and floods are ravaging the planet, forcing the displacement of tens of millions of people. And this is just the beginning.
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The missing data behind Manchin’s dirty pipeline deal
Dems touting a bill to expand fossil fuel pipelines have not released any emissions projections showing what the bill would do to the climate.
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Trump’s vileness that Biden upholds
The fierce policy of economic aggression of Donald Trump’s administration against Cuba, maintained, by the way, almost intact by Joe Biden to date is the focus of this article. But before entering into that matter, I invite the reader to share some considerations on the history of the economic war of the United States (U.S.) against the island.
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While rail unions meet with Biden to avert strike, 500 railroaders attend meeting to organize rank-and-file opposition
With the specter of a national rail strike in the United States looming, two meetings took place on Wednesday night.
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U.S. launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
The U.S. military launched 469 foreign interventions since 1798, including 251 since the end of the first cold war in 1991, according to official Congressional Research Service data.
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Biden is helping fossil fuel donors weaken his clean water rule
In backing Joe Manchin’s “permitting reform,” the president could undermine his own EPA initiative.