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Trump massacres Yemenis so Israel can massacre Palestinians
On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.
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“Love your neighbor” Pope-Vance controversy
You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.
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Trump’s Star Wars revival: The Golden Dome antimissile fantasy
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better.
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Discovery of immense methane leaks in Antarctica
A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative.
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Ukraine timeline tells the tale
The way to prevent the Ukraine war from being understood is to suppress its history.
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Remembering nuclear victims 71 years after the Castle Bravo test
Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.
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Every accusation is a confession
Admiral Alvin Hosley demonstrated selective outrage over the fear of multipolarity in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Gaza “war” was a lie, as is the ceasefire
During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing
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Who should get a presidential pardon but won’t!
President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, after having repeatedly promised that he would not.
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Dilemmas
We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure.
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The planet under threat of breakdown
There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on.
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California law mandates that public school children be taught about State’s genocide of Indigenous Peoples
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th century, of the estimated 10 million to 15 million native peoples, fewer than 238,000 remained.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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Raw deals: The continued shafting of the Chagossians
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering—how generous of them—to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents had been brutally displaced between 1965 to 1973, to Mauritius.
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Humans rescue Doomsday Glacier?
It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf of the Thwaites Glacier/Antarctica, aka: Doomsday Glacier, could collapse “within as little as 5 years.”
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Another war diary entry
Critical cultural historical perspective is not easy to obtain.
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First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; Now he decides who’s allowed it
The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.
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170 years of U.S. aggression against Nicaragua
On July 19 Nicaragua will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.
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The North American peace movement at an inflection point
The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing U.S. wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China.
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The Death of Paris ‘15
The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards for how nation/states must approach the net zero target year 2050 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in stages, starting with major reductions by 2030.