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The narrative of sham elections
Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a “sham” and therefore “rigged.”
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Should we be worried about eight billion people?
Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.
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Alexei Kudrin starts his run to succeed President Vladimir Putin
There were only two ways for Alexei Kudrin to become the president of Russia that he and the U.S. government have always wanted.
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Book Review: ‘Before Crips’ dismantles dominant narrative on gangs
For the past several decades, the media has severely manipulated the question of gangs and their socio-economic origins. John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani’s new book, “Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’” among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs, exposes the mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding gangs.
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Ron DeSantis’s Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes
In this Eyes Left/Empire Files exclusive, Mike Prysner sheds light on the shadowy military career of Ron DeSantis.
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Are you ok? The lives of young trans Texans
In Jesse Friedin’s photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
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Towards a just transition: breaking with the existing order
The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell denounce mainstream and top-down solutions for an environmental crisis engulfing the region, and continent.
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The Communist Party is the only force capable of challenging ultra-nationalism in Israeli society
The collapse of the “Zionist Left” during Israel’s most recent elections leaves Hadash and the Communist Party as the only force able to stand against the rise of ultra-nationalism.
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Stability in a destabilized region
The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro and Inacio Lula da Silva this year in Colombia and Brazil have raised hopes for a new strong impulse towards the full emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Haunted by the ghost of “Marbury v. Madison:” Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court
In 2022, after a handful of unelected judges serving lifetime terms in the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated the hard-won and overwhelmingly popular right to abortion, masses of people took to the streets to defend this democratic right to bodily autonomy.
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The attack on nature is putting humanity at risk: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via Campesina, went to the Vatican to attend the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, organised by the Community of Sant’Egídio.
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The burden Western liberals impose only on Palestinians
Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism.
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Commune or nothing! Venezuela’s transition to socialism
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez defined communes as the key blocks to building socialism from the bottom up.
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Nicaragua: A People as President and Their Municipal Elections
The high level of participation of young people and women highlights the profound democratization of Nicaraguan society that has taken place in the last fifteen years.
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The American Jewish war over Zionism can begin
Zionism destroys everything in its path. It has corrupted every major American Jewish organization. And Netanyahu’s return allows American Jews to acknowledge this.
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Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history
The first transgender singer to go number one in the U.S., German-born Kim Petras endured long rites of passage in her homeland before finding her voice abroad.
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Oppose the Berlin state’s witch-hunting campaign against Roger Waters over claims of “anti-Semitism!”
The witch-hunting and defamation campaign against British rock musician Roger Waters has also reached Berlin. Last week, Samuel Salzborn, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the Social Democratic-Left Party-Green Senate (state executive), called for the cancellation of a planned concert by the co-founder of the band Pink Floyd in the capital.
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U.S. and allies vote for Nazism at U.N.
Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by the General Assembly against racism and other forms of bigotry—an annual Resolution condemning it, and expressing a commitment to doing everything possible to reduce bigoted acts.
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Limits to growth: Inconvenient truth of our times
Ahead of the first United Nations environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972, a group of scientists prepared The Limits to Growth report for the Club of Rome. It showed planet Earth’s finite natural resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
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The triumph of the City
THE triumph of the City of London, the one square kilometre next to Liverpool Street station that houses the citadel of British finance, is complete.