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“We are not done”: Policy, protections, and the people’s struggle for Pride
June is Pride Month. It is a time to celebrate. It’s also a time to remember the struggle for equal rights, a history we are continually encouraged to forsake, fragment, and forget.
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Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century.
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‘Either you join NATO or we will make the canaries independent’
A recent interview with former Spanish politician José Manuel Otero has revealed further details regarding his country’s entry into NATO and attests to the double-dealing politics of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
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Creating cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy
Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”
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Gina Haspel watched the waterboarding at CIA ‘Black Site’
For services performed (and obfuscated), Haspel passed muster in the Senate and was confirmed as CIA Director on May 17, 2018.
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Interview with Akinyele Umoja
Kuwasi Balagoon is one of the most heroic and remarkable figures of the historic Black Liberation struggle. He was born Donald Weems in 1946 in the predominately Black community of Lakeland in Eastern Shore, Maryland and was inspired by the powerful Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge (MD) movement in his youth.
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Starbucks unionization wave hits New Orleans
New Orleans Starbucks workers at 7700 Maple Street are the first in the city to file for union certification, amidst dozens of nationwide unionization efforts at the country’s largest coffee chain.
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U.S. govt’s Summit of the Americas fails: Boycott by presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
As the U.S. government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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Ralph Gonsalves: “Latin-Caribbean integration is necessary, but it has been discontinuous”
The small island countries of CARICOM have given a demonstration of dignity and sovereignty, maintaining firm positions on the U.S. interference policy against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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U.S. COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority
The death toll in the U.S. due to COVID-19 has crossed 1 million. The richest country in the world has stumbled in controlling the pandemic and the poorest have suffered the most.
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How a new generation is combatting digital surveillance
Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.
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Connecting the dots between Roe v. Wade, sex workers and bodily autonomy
The same people who criminalize sex work, criminalize other “serious offences” against sexual norms such as medical treatment for trans people and access to abortion.
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Mapping U.S. Imperialism
This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.
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NYPD and far-Right forces collude in physical assault on a socialist and anti-racist space
Since our founding in 2018, our space, The People’s Forum (TPF) has been the target of multiple attacks by the far-right on both social media and in our location. We have managed to defend our space which operates on values and principles of social justice and people power.
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Food, famine and war
If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made rather than due to vagaries of nature and the weather, it is the current food crisis that is putting millions globally close to starvation.
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U.S. wants to surround China with missiles–but can’t find Asian country to host them
The United States plans to spend billions of dollars to surround China with missiles. But a US military-sponsored study concluded its Pacific allies South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Australia are unlikely to host the offensive weapons.
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A second left-wing progressive wave is emerging in Latin America
The 9th Summit of the Americas, scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in June, remains uncertain. Since the Biden administration has not invited the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on the grounds of “democracy issues”, the leaders of Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, and other countries have expressed the possibility of refusing to participate.
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U.S. threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
The U.S. is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region.
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Supreme Court deals blow to prisoners seeking to overturn wrongful convictions
The decision will leave thousands of people barred from challenging their sentences in federal court in situations where they have exonerating evidence that their lawyers failed to submit at trial.
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Neo-liberalism and anti-inflationary policy
Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment.